Circadian rhythm with 〜24h periodicity is the most basic and strongest biological rhythm. However, there have been reports of bed-ridden patients with neurodegenerative diseases and unclear circadian rhythm. Sequelae of cerebral infarction include sleep and motor disturbances. Additionally, these are risk factors which induce impairment of quality of life (QOL). We investigated whether biological rhythm disorder in the acute stage of cerebral infarction is associated with sleep disorder in the chronic stage. Thirty-five patients with initial cerebral infarction hospitalized within 48h of onset and without pyrexic diseases were included in the study. To determine biological rhythmicity, rectal temperature was measured at the acute stage within 48h of onset at 1-min intervals for 48h using Mini-Logger 2000. Spectral analyses were performed with the maximum entropy method (MEM). Pittsburgh Sleep Quality index was used to evaluate sleep disorder on day 21 after onset or later. In the group that had clear circadian rhythm, sleep disorder was found for 20.8%, but in the group that had unclear circadian rhythm, 63.6% had sleep disorder (P<0.05). At the acute stage of cerebral infarction, some patients had biological rhythm disorder which may be complicated with sleep disorder at the chronic stage, and it may inhibit QOL.

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Despite the high standards demanded of conventional medical treatments and the incredible developments in investigative technologies, the reason that diseases remain without cures is that the true nature of disease has eluded conventional medical science. Illnesses caused by mental stress and unhealthy lifestyles can be treated using conventional medicine, but the rest are caused by a lack or stagnation of qi or are spiritual illness. In recent years alternative medicine has finally been gaining acceptance and treatment through integrative medicine is beginning to be offered. However, this is not enough and there must be a higher dimensional medical treatment that incorporates spiritual medical treatment. Here, I will introduce a medical case in which the incredible results of spiritual medical treatment and a high-level qigong master were recognized.

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The most important practice in qigong is the "three adjustments." Using physiological measurements, we studied respiration during three different kinds of inner qigong: standing posture qigong, six-word-practice, and ney yang gong. Standing posture qigong is a method, which delays the period of respiration, compared with normal respiration. During rest, respiration frequency is about 15 times the abdominal respiration in one minute. In qigong, we found that this number came down to about five times a minute. Furthermore, the respiration during this type of qigong changed into deep respiration. During the six-word-practice, a qigong master vocalizes the necessary letters, but it is understood that he performs a slow, repeating, and deep respiration. Respiration in ney yang gong is not only inhalation and expiration; the point at which the respiration was stopped is also important. All the three types of qigong were characterized by a decrease in blood oxygen level at the beginning. Heart rate increased in the standing posture qigong and six-word-practice, and there was an increase in the blood pressure. There was an equal elevation in blood pressure in the hard type of ney yang gong, while blood pressure decreased in the soft type. Our conclusion is that parasympathetic line becomes dominant in respiration if expiration is not followed by an immediate aspiration.

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In this study, ECG was measured during the standing posture and walking exercises, and analyzed using wavelet transform. Consequently, during these exercises, a pattern was seen that is different in the ECG waveform during cardiac beat rise. From this result, it is possible that during standing posture and walking exercises, the methods of activity of the autonomic nervous system differ.

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We considered the relation between breathing in qigong and change in autonomous never activity by correlating the change in autonomous nerve activity with the movement of the abdomen and chest while breathing. We found that the autonomous nerves become predominantly sympathetic when the chest contracts. In the case of vomiting, sympathetic nerves are activated and the autonomous nerves replace parasympathetic predominance by absorbing breath.

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This study evaluates the effect of non-contact healing such as laying-on-of-hands and prayer using biophotons. Pairs of samples of Cucumis sativus were measured by a highly sensitive detector for 18h, and the intensity of biophotons from the experimental sample was compared with the control. Measurements were done for three groups, non-treatment, healing, and thermal treatment, in which experimental samples were stressed by a heat pool at 40℃. There was no difference in the intensity between the experimental and control samples in the non-treatment and thermal treatment groups. However, in the healing group, the intensity of biophotons from the experimental samples was significantly greater than the control samples (p=0.002, two-tailed paired t-test). In addition, quantitative evaluation for the effect of non-contact healing was possible by using, as an index, a logarithm of the ratio of intensities of biophotons from experimental and control samples.

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The 11 year activity and the present status of the International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) is reported. ISLIS was to celebrate the 10^<th> Anniversary of Founding in autumn 2005. ISLIS seeks to realize the paradigm shift from material-orien- ted science and technology to a new paradigm including the consciousness, spirit and mind through research based on empirical and positive scientific methodologies, and consequently, to promote the development of health, social welfare, and education as well as social and personal peace of mind, and to contribute to the making of a peaceful world, at one with nature. Since the foundation of ISLIS in 1995, 22 symposia have been held and 22 issues of the Journal of ISLIS have been published periodically. ISLIS held the "Human Potential Science International Forum" in Chiba, Japan in 2002 and the "International Conference on Mind Body Science" in Seoul, Korea in 2004. It published the book "Human Potential Science" in 2004. There are ISLIS Information Centers at 9 places in the world and about 250 ISLIS members in 10 countries. The ISLIS Head Office moved to the International Research Institute (IRI), Chiba, Japan in April 2005. ISLIS has promoted the 10th Anniversary Campaign to increase its membership; this is critical for the Society to have an important role in Human Potential Science in the 21st century. The budget status of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is reported.

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Recently, there is increasing utilization of various fragrances in the field of complimentary therapy. This therapy is called aromatherapy. When fragrance stimulation reaches the olfactory nerve center, it influences the autonomic nervous systems, making changes in pulse waves. The purpose of this research was to determine how the fragrance stimulation influences height ratios (b/a, c/a and d/a), where a, b c, d mean wave heights of elemental waves a, b, c, d composing an acceleration pulse wave form. As a result, b/a was significantly decreased by jasmine fragrance stimulation, while c/a and d/a were not affected. This experimental result suggested that the extensibility of blood vessels was increased by jasmine fragrance. After the stimulation was stopped, all the ratios returned to their initial state within about 5 minutes.

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The effect of the weak rotational magnetic field on the organism was examined using the mice with intense physical strength consumption by controlled bait was used. As a result of experiment using 2 kinds of magnetic field strength, i.e. generated from 2.5mA and 3.5mA alternating current, the rise of the rectal temperature by the irradiation was admitted for both 2.5mA and 3.5mA groups. Though a steady effect continued in 2.5mA group, the effect was not admitted by half of mice in 3.5mA group on the way. From these observations, it is able to be confirmed that the rotational magnetic field affected rectal temperature of the mice, though it is necessary to set magnetic field strength suitable for the organism.

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A head-mounted display was used as the three-dimensional image presentation device and "Descent," a free software shooting game, was used as the software. 12 healthy adult male volunteers were used in this experiment after obtaining their informed consent. The oxygen metabolic change in the anterior lobe of the brain was measured by near infrared spectroscopy and recorded on an electrocardiogram. The mental scaling tendency of the object was analyzed using the type A behavior pattern and the Hostility scaling. All measured time series data were kept in the normal range, and no fatal arrhythmia or epilepsy were observed during experiments. In some cases, the brain oxygen metabolism may completely differ for the objects of Type A and Type B behavior patterns. The results in this study suggest that the autonomic function was connected to the mental tendency of the objects. By examining such directivity, it is expected that subjects, which show morbid reaction to an audiovisual stimulation, can be screened beforehand.

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It is said that negative ions are good for human health. In this paper, the relation between the electrical potential of negative ions and optical strength was examined. First, the air was negatively electrified with a device that generated negative ions. The potential of the air when the source of light was changed and light was irradiated to air was measured. It was clarified that there was a strong correlation between strength of the potential of air and the irradiated light. As a result, it has been understood that the pattern of the electrical change of air was greatly different even by the same illuminance depending on the kind of the source of light.

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Change of genetic information is thought to result in biological evolution, and therefore it is intriguing for us whether human beings are going to evolve in the future, due to the change. On the other hand, mutation, cased by genetic-information change, is induced under various environmental conditions and the genetic-information instability may happen to cancer development, leading to death.

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This is a progress report of Total Health Clinic System that is currently under development as a social medical experimentation. Total Health Clinic System is a system that organically integrates carefully selected elite institutions of various modern medical practices and alternative healthcares with a core of public health clinic. The features of the core public health clinic are the foliowings: 1. Its main purpose is to realize pleasant, healthy, economically sound and active organization. 2. It provides health management services including organization diagnosis and organization planning for each company and region, along with providing individual medical examinations and group seminars. 3. Therapeutic management of disease is not its main object. Instead, it emphasizes the aspect of ability development, and provides proposals about fundamental aspects, such as recreation, nutrition and exercise based on our daily lives. (Chemically synthesized drugs and surgeries are not advised.) 4. It carefully selects various specialized institutions of modern medical practices and alternative healthcares, integrates them organically, and cooperates with members of them.

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The author has conducted research on parapsychological phenomena in collaboration with South American researchers. This paper deals with (1) distant healing intentions for autistic patients, (2) field RNG research on religious rituals in Brazil, and (3) psi-inducive training.

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Emotion is a general term for subjective feelings of individuals such as happiness, sadness, anger, and so on. Emotion is related fundamentally to preserve species and individuals. For example bad odor alerts animals not to eat while pleasant perfumes act like pheromones to lure the opposite sex. Emotion includes at least three principal components, (1) physiological changes such as autonomic responses, (2) changes expressed in behaviors like facial expressions, and (3) components recognizable and being expressed by words. Most researches in the past handled the above three elements as indexes of emotion. Recently thanks to progress in brain imaging techniques, we have 4^<th> overt element of emotion. Emotion is expressed on regional anatomical brain maps as activation or deactivations of distinct brain areas. P.MacLean explained our brain as a composition of three evolutionally distinct layers, the neocortex, reptilian, and limbic brain (Triune Brain in Emolusion, 1990). He explained the limbic system or intermediate brain between the neocortex and the reptilian brain is responsible for emotion. Activations in these regions create feeling of emotion. The limbic brain is evolutionally created to regulate the autonomic nervous system and primitive (reptilian) brain. In mammals it intervenes or relay signals between the neocortex and primitive brain. Sensory information is processed in the limbic brain and is transmitted to the neocortex with a tag of emotion. The tags help us to select necessary signals to be processed and stored. This session reviews recent progress in brain imaging related to emotion.

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Emotional valence of memory content has been shown to influence episodic memory. On the other hand, it has been known that people can remember better when mood (emotional context) at memory retrieval is matched to mood at encoding. In the present study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) with [^<15>O]H_2O to investigate brain areas sensitive to the effect of emotional context congruency between the encoding and retrieval settings. Behavioral data showed significant difference between negative emotional context congruent and incongruent condition. For PET data, main effect for emotional context congruency was found in the left parahippocampal gyrus, the right lateral prefrontal area and the right lateral occipital cortex. Our data add further evidence to the notion of the interaction between emotion and episodic memory.

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Changes in autonomic nervous activity are induced by emotional stress. Determined whether power spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) could detect changes in autonomic tone following relaxation smelling lavender aroma. Healthy young women subjects (n=10, 23±3 years) underwent continuous electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring before and after the fragrance was administered. HRV was expressed as low (0.04-0.15Hz) and high (0.15-0.40Hz) frequency components (LF, HF) and the LF/HF ratio. Increases of parasympathetic tone were suggested after smelling lavender aroma as seen in increases in HF and decreases in LF/HF. FDG-PET measurements revealed metabolic reductions in the right superior temporal gyms and right postcentral gyrus and activations in the left posterior part of the cingulate gyrus. These results implied that smelling lavender aroma induced not only relaxation but also increased arousal level in these subjects.

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In starting this healing/therapy session, an overview is presented with common images from the scientific studies in this field. First, we review the author's previous data related to healing and therapy, and then, the author's recent data on the use of sound and music is introduced in the discussion.

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Prayer has power to heal not only oneself but also other people. In this study, the EEG (electroencephalogram) of a praying man was measured during the prayer. The subject in this study was this author himself. The relationship between the results of the EEG and the content of his consciousness during the prayer was examined. This type of the prayer was "The World Peace Prayer", a kind of meditation. The results indicated the following changes during the second half of a 10 minute prayer. The α wave in frontal area enlarged. The lag time of the α phase between the frontal and occipital areas became extremely small. The α frequency in the occipital area became lower while θ wave enlarged in both the frontal and occipital area. A different study on another type of prayer, "In for purification", was performed by measuring the bio-photon level of a plant. The experiment proved that the "In" gives an active life force to living things.

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The first purpose of this study is to propose a model of the Psycho-educational approaches according to the type of spirituality based on the 3 factor spirituality theory. The second purpose is to use the principle of primary light colors, to show the traits of spirituality visually and to give information for future investigations to connect psychology and physics on the research of spirituality. The 3 factor spirituality theory was lead through a series of research using SBAS-TEST which has been developed to measure spirituality appeared as an individual's psychological maturity level. According to the high-low scores of 3 factors, Will, Joy and Sense, 8 spirituality types are formed. Each type has its own trait and the specific psycho-educational approach for each type was proposed. The ideal state of the 3 factors, will, joy, and sense, of spirituality represent The truth, The beautiful and The good. We apply the primary light colors blue, red, and green for the 3 factors, will, joy and sense respectively. By using the principle of primary light colors the traits of the spirituality was able to be explained visually. We also tried to integrate and sort the traditional psycho-educational approaches based on the 8 spirituality types. For the lack of will the approaches focusing on behavioral and cognitive level is appropriate. For the lack of joy the existential level, for the lack of sense the approaches to focus on transcendental level are considered to be useful.

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The purpose of the present work was to investigate a mechanism of human health by constructing a model of human consciousness and mind as information and energy from the viewpoints of quantum theory and holographic cosmology. It is believed that omnipresent information and energy in the whole universe's spacetime would be related to nonlocal information based on the holographic principle, and that its localized state would be recognized as individual consciousness. From energy transformation of consciousness information to coherent tunneling photons and its energy transformation in brain cells as described by quantum brain dynamics, a weak voltage of the brain waves, chemical formation and control of hormone in brain would occur. As a result, it is believed that the consciousness information would affect the DNA which would be transferred to the whole human body. Two models of synchronicity were proposed as a mechanism of nonlocal medicine. The first model for synchronicity has resonance information of consciousness information I_<c1>(r_1,it_1) and nonlocal information I_<NL> (r, -it) including health information, expressed by the imaginary time on a 3-dimensional boundary hologram. The synchronicity phenomenon of nonlocal medicine with the information quantity I_<SH> occurs in the 4-dimensional space-time r_<SH> and real time t_<SH> in the overlapped region of the phenomena and consciousness. The second model proposed that the resonance [(px-Et)_c=n(px-Et)_<Univ>] region of the consciousness wave function Ψ_C=Ae^<i(px-Et)/h> and the wave function of the nonlocal information Ψ<NL> appear in the usual 4-dimensional spacetime, and then nonlocal healing occurs. In addition, a possible physical description (I_<NL>→I_C→hv→mc^2) is shown for nonlocal medicine, psychosomatic medicine and holistic medicine that heals the whole human being. Especially, the I_C is a hologram including information of the whole universe even though the diluted information, and nonlocal healing could occur for nonlocal information resonance by concentration on the inner consciousness.

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