Background Mindfulness-based therapies are being used in a wide range of common
chronic conditions in both treatment and prevention despite lack of consensus about their …

Understanding the malleable determinants of cellular aging is critical to understanding
human longevity. Telomeres may provide a pathway for exploring this question. Telomeres …

Objective: Mindfulness meditation has met increasing interest as a therapeutic strategy for
anxiety disorders, but prior studies have been limited by methodological concerns, including …

The relaxation response (RR) is the counterpart of the stress response. Millennia-old
practices evoking the RR include meditation, yoga and repetitive prayer. Although RR …

The use of Yoga and other complementary healthcare interventions for both clinical and non-
clinical populations has increased substantially in recent years. In this context, we describe …

Background Mind-body practices that elicit the relaxation response (RR) have been used
worldwide for millennia to prevent and treat disease. The RR is characterized by decreased …

Although meditation is believed to be over five thousand years old, scientific research on it is
in its infancy. Mitigating the extensive negative biochemical effects of stress is a superficially …

Although the physiological and biochemical changes that occur during the acute stress
response have been well-characterized, the contrasting changes that underlie the relaxation …

Background Poor psychological and physical resilience in response to stress drives a great
deal of health care utilization. Mind-body interventions can reduce stress and build …

Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Stress is natural and belongs to life itself. To
sustain it and even grow with it biology invented different mechanisms, since stress …