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Dear CIHS Community Members,
Happy September! Summer is over, and Fall is just around the corner. There are a few announcements and several important articles in this newsletter. The first announcement is our graduation ceremony on Saturday, September 10. We are celebrating the graduating class of 2016. CIHS is very proud of our 6 graduates. Congratulations! The ceremony will start promptly at 11 am, and it will be followed by a catered lunch. Everyone is welcome but we must have your RSVP at admin@cihs.edu. Graduation is a great opportunity to experience the atmosphere of CIHS and see what we are offering.
The course schedule for the upcoming Fall Quarter is announced. The Fall quarter begins on September 26. Registration week for the Fall Quarter is 9/12-9/16. We appreciate your prompt registration. If you are interested in CIHS or have questions about any of our courses or programs, please visit our website (www.cihs.edu).
We are very proud of CIHS Core Faculty, Dr. Tamara Goldsby, who announces the publication of her singing bowl sound meditation study in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Please see the abstract below for more detail.
The last announcement is "Call for Papers" notice from The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) Symposium 2017. This is great opportunity for those who are interested in Energy Psychology to experience frontier fields of energy psychology presented by premier psychologists in this field. Please see the article below for more information.
Hideki Baba, Ph.D.
Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu
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Cool things CIHS faculty are doing
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Journal Article Publication
by Dr. Tamara Goldsby
CIHS Core Faculty Dr. Tamara Goldsby is pleased to announce the publication of her singing bowl sound meditation study in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Her study entitled, "Effects of singing bowl sound meditation on mood, tension, and well-being: An observational study" will be published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (JEBCAM). (Please see the abstract below). Dr. Goldsby is currently awaiting the publication date and journal issue number and will provide this information to CIHS as soon as it is available. Abstract Poor mood and elevated anxiety are linked to increased incidence of disease. This study examined the effects of sound meditation, specifically Tibetan singing bowl meditation, on mood, anxiety, pain, and spiritual well-being. Sixty-two women and men (mean age 49.7 years) participated. As compared to pre-meditation, following the sound meditation participants reported significantly less tension, anger, fatigue, and depressed mood (ps < .001). Additionally, participants who were previously naïve to this type of meditation experienced a significantly greater reduction in tension compared to participants experienced in this meditation (p < .001). Feeling of spiritual well-being significantly increased across all participants (p < .001). Tibetan singing bowl meditation may be a feasible low-cost low technology intervention for reducing feelings of tension, anxiety, and depression, and increasing spiritual well-being. This meditation type may be especially useful in decreasing tension in individuals who have not previously practiced this form of meditation. Key Words: Tibetan Bowls, Anxiety, Depression, Spiritual Well-being
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Energy Pychology Research Symposium 2017:
Call for Presentations
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The Association for
Comprehensive Energy Psychology
The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology will be hosting our seventh annual Research Symposium next year. We are accepting research papers in the fields of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine to be presented at our international conference on Thursday, May 18, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas.
We are seeking original empirical research, clinical single subject case studies, experimental design studies, randomized controlled studies, and theoretical papers. New researchers, professors and graduate students are especially encouraged to present. The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2016.
Submissions:
Please submit your proposal, via email, in THREE attachments:
1) Name and Credentials (MA, MSW, PhD); Contact information; Brief bio (approx. 100 words); Title and Abstract including Introduction, Objectives, Methods, Results (or Expected Results, if not yet completed), and Discussion.
2) CV
3) Supporting documents: Tables, graphs, charts, spreadsheets.
(Note: For initial submission we need only an abstract. You will have until May 2016 to complete your study.)
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by January 15, 2017.
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Dr. Motoyama's New Publication
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"The World of Religious Experiences"
We are pleased to announce Dr. Motoyama's new publication.
Dr. Motoyama had his eighty-eighth birthday celebration on December 2013 in Japan, and as one of the commemoration projects of his birthday, we published The World of Religious Experiences in English.
The World of Religious Experiences is a collection of articles written by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama from about 1955 until the beginning of 1960. The articles were first brought together for the purposes of his doctoral dissertation, and for which he received his Doctor of Literature degree (philosophy, electrophysiology) in March 1962. In 1963, the articles were published together as a book under the title, The World of Religious Experiences, which was Dr. Motoyama's first book length publication.
Through these articles, Dr. Motoyama has tried to research into the existence the characteristics of religious experiences with metaphysical-ontological elucidation and statistical analysis of electrophysiological experiments based upon his own religious experiences. This collection of research articles is the foundation of the "Motoyama Philosophy." The articles clarify that the world of religious experiences are a true world, which sincerely relates to the basis of human existence. This insight comes from the integration of his deepened religious practices and physiological-physical-experimental studies.
We believe that it is very meaningful to have this publication, the foundation of "Motoyama Philosophy," available to the world in time for his eighty-eighth birthday.
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