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Gasps, sighs, and yawns are recognized by even a casual observer as involuntary expressions of emotion through the "medium" of respiration. In recent years, scientific observation has focused on sensation and behavior as researchers investigate the relation of emotion and stress in disorders such as asthma, hyperventilation, and panic disorder. Until now, however, the interplay of psychological factors and physiological responses has not been approached from the interdisciplinary perspective reported in this book. Brought together here is the work of physiologists, psychologists, and researchers in behavioral medicine, together with - for the first time - specialists and practitioners of traditional Japanese arts and culture. Knowledge of the art and control of breathing, which are essential features of such disciplines as Zen and Noh, opens a new and until now unexplored path for scientists seeking to understand the relation between respiration and emotion.
List of contents
Behavioral Breathing and Sensation.- Location and Electric Current Sources of Breathlessness in the Human Brain.- Respiratory Sensations May Be Controlling Elements on Ventilation But Can Be Affected by Personality Traits and State Changes.- Respiratory Sensations and the Behavioral Control of Breathing.- Dyspnea in Patients with Asthma.- Respiration and Emotion (I).- How Breathing Adjusts to Mental and Physical Demands.- Anxiety and Respiration.- Respiration and the Emotion of Dyspnea/Suffocation Fear.- Coordination of Breathing Between Ribcage and Abdomen in Emotional Arousal.- Behavioural and Physiological Factors Affecting Breathing Pattern and Ventilatory Control in Patients with Idiopathic Hyperventilation.- The Art of Breathing in the East and the West.- Effects of the Eastern Art of Breathing.- Biofeedback for Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Tanden Breathing Among Zen Monks: Studies in Cardiovascular Resonance.- Breathing Regulation in Zen Buddhism.- Respiration and Emotion (II).- Gaining Insight into the Factors that Influence the Variability of Breathing.- Facilitation and Inhibition of Breathing During Changes in Emotion.- Environmental Stress, Hypoventilatory Breathing and Blood Pressure Regulation.- Stress Reduction Intervention: A Theoretical Reconsideration with an Emphasis on Breathing Training.- Special Lecture.- Noh Theatre, the Aesthetics of Breathing.
Summary
Gasps, sighs, and yawns are recognized by even a casual observer as involuntary expressions of emotion through the "medium" of respiration. In recent years, scientific observation has focused on sensation and behavior as researchers investigate the relation of emotion and stress in disorders such as asthma, hyperventilation, and panic disorder. Until now, however, the interplay of psychological factors and physiological responses has not been approached from the interdisciplinary perspective reported in this book. Brought together here is the work of physiologists, psychologists, and researchers in behavioral medicine, together with - for the first time - specialists and practitioners of traditional Japanese arts and culture. Knowledge of the art and control of breathing, which are essential features of such disciplines as Zen and Noh, opens a new and until now unexplored path for scientists seeking to understand the relation between respiration and emotion.
