Improve Autism with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Children with autism have very different sensory experiences from other people, and these responses often cause their bodies to get stuck in fight, flight, or freeze modes that divert blood from the digestive organs to the skeletal muscles. This activity results in disrupted […]
Improve Perception, Mood, and Motor Performance in Children with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness is widely considered effective as a treatment for children and adolescents with aggression, ADHD, or anxiety.” – Lauren Cassani Davis Childhood is a miraculous period during which the child is dynamically absorbing information from every […]
Improve Quality of Life and Performance with Multiple Sclerosis with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Studies in multiple sclerosis, these have shown that mindfulness can improve quality of life and help people cope better with their MS. The studies also found that it decreased stress, anxiety and depression.” – Multiple Sclerosis Trust MS is […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Meditation provides an atmosphere of deep relaxation beneficial to the mind and body, offering myriad physiological effects such as lower blood pressure and a slower heart rate. When the body is extremely relaxed, the mind, nerves and muscles work at an optimum level, allowing for the enhancement […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Although teens frontal lobe activity is still developing well into their twenties, they do have frontal lobes. Mindfulness practices can help teens engage their frontal lobes, and slow down and weigh the outcome of their actions.” – Donna Torney Adolescence can be a difficult time, fraught […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Students all around the world now stretch in downward dog in a more mindful classroom, one that sheds away the hectic bell schedule frenzy that behavior psychologists say leads to anxiety.” – Mark W. Guay We, as adults, often have and idealized concept of childhood, remembering all […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Yoga puts more pressure on bone than gravity does. By opposing one group of muscles against another, it stimulates osteocytes, the bone-making cells.” – Loren Fishman Bone is living tissue that, like all living tissues, is constantly being broken down and replaced. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation […]
Improve the Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease with Long-Term Tai Chi Practice By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Tai chi training appears to reduce balance impairments in patients with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease, with additional benefits of improved functional capacity and reduced falls.” – Fuzhong Li Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is an incurable progressive degenerative […]
Strengthen the Brain and Improve Cognition in Older Adults with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness training, with its emphasis on present-focused attention and regulation of the habitual, reflexive tendencies of the mind, has the potential to enhance cognitive control operations in the elderly and the neural circuitry associated with it.” […]
Meditation Alters Sense Boundaries By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “higher states of consciousness are a natural development of long-term meditation practice facilitated by regular daily experience of transcendental consciousness.” – Ravinder Jerath Millions of people worldwide seek out transcendent experiences by engaging in practices, such as meditation, yoga, and prayer. Transcendent […]