Hearts That Beat as One
* Brain wave synchrony: Stimuli to the sender results in synchronized brain
waves of the isolated receiver (this only worked after the pair had
meditated together for 20 minutes).
* Entrainment occurs in brainwaves between QiGong masters and their
students during tohate
* Certain stimuli register in the heart before they register in the brain.
Heart and brain became entrained with each other earlier and more
frequently in women than in men.
* Other types of stimuli register in the gut first.
* Husband/wife/cancer study. "All three groups had shown an effect. In
every instance, each physiological response of the receivers had tracked
those of the senders. However, the most prolonged pattern occurred
among the cancer patients whose partners had been trained in
compassionate intention. The receivers in the training group not only
responded to the stimulus, but also kept responding over 8 of the 10
seconds of the intension."
Here's the study from a different vantage point:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon...e-healing.html
AIDS patients (Love Study)
"Targ began her career as a mainstream psychiatrist, but made her name
in 1999 with two remarkable studies at California Pacific Medical Center
(CPMC) in San Fransisco, which tested the possibility of remote healing
with end-stage AIDS patients. Targ spent months designing her trial.
She and her partner, psychologist and retired hospital administrator
Fred Sicher, sought out a homogenous group of advanced AIDS patients
with the same degree of illness, including the same T-cell counts and
number of AIDS-defining illnesses. Because they wished to test the
effect of distant healing, and not any particular healing modality, they
decided to recruit highly experienced, successful healers from diverse
backgrounds who might represent an array of approaches.
"Targ and Sicher gathered together an eclectic mix of healers from all
across America -- from orthodox Christians to Native American shamans --
and asked them to send healing thoughts to a group of AIDS patients
under strict double-blind conditions. All healing was to be done
remotely so that nothing, such as the presence of a healer or healing
touch, could confound the results. Targ created a strict double-blind
format: each healer received sealed packets with information about the
patients to be healed, including their names, photos, and T-cell counts.
Every other week, the healers were assigned a new patient and asked to
hold an intention for the health and well-being of the patient an hour a
day for six days, with the alternate weeks off for rest. In this
manner, eventually every patient in the healing group would be sent
healing energy by every healer in turn.
"At the end of the first study, although 40 percent of the control
population died, all ten of the patients in the treatment group were not
only alive, but far healthier in every regard.
"... In the second study, those sent healing were again far healthier
on every parameter tested: significantly fewer AIDS-defining illnesses,
improved T-cell levels, fewer hospitalizations, fewer visits to the
doctor, fewer new illnesses, less severity of disease, and better
psychological well-being. The differences were decisive; for instance,
the treatment group had six times fewer AIDS-defining illnesses and four
times fewer hospitalizations at the end of the study than the controls."
"In Targ's original studies, the healing had been carried out by
highly experienced, successful healers who'd been chosen because they
possessed a special gift. After the studies were completed, Targ grew
interested in whether an ordinary individual could be similarly trained
to use intention effectively."