First Advisor
Karch, Adriana
College
College for Professional Studies
Degree Name
Master of Arts
School
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Number of Pages
93 pages
Abstract
The control group study investigated the impact of a mindfulness centering technique, taken from the Japanese martial art Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido, on balance and reaction time performance as well as on concurrent levels of galvanic skin response (arousal). Study design and analysis occurred within a social neuroscience framework that included the cultural view of mind, body, and emotion as an integrated whole, and brain research from multiple disciplines revealing the neural integrated organism. Thirty-one subjects were tested in a visual-stimulus reaction time task and in an unstable rocker-board balancing task. Prior to repeating the tests, experimental group participants learned the centering technique and control group participants received a brief lecture. Significant improvement for the experimental group over the control group was limited to one balance measure. Results in general indicated a possible trend to improved balance performance with centering. Arousal level correlated significantly with performance and task type for the entire sample. In light of ongoing neuroscience research, the study's findings point to the value of approaching clinical studies of performance from an integrated organism perspective.
Date of Award
Summer 2007
Location (Creation)
Colorado (state); Denver (county); Denver (inhabited place)
Copyright
© Susan Chandler
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Recommended Citation
Chandler, Susan Elizabeth, "The Impact of Mindfulness On Balance, Cognition and Arousal" (2007). Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection). 103.
https://epublications.regis.edu/theses/103