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Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health
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Research suggesting the beneficial effects of yoga on myriad aspects of psychological health has proliferated in recent years, yet there is currently no overarching framework by which to understand yoga's potential beneficial effects. Here we provide a theoretical framework and systems-based network model of yoga that focuses on integration of top-down and bottom-up forms of self-regulation. We begin by contextualizing yoga in historical and contemporary settings, and then detail how specific components of yoga practice may affect cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and autonomic output under stress through an emphasis on interoception and bottom-up input, resulting in physical and psychological health. The model describes yoga practice as a comprehensive skillset of synergistic process tools that facilitate bidirectional feedback and integration between high- and low-level brain networks, and afferent and re-afferent input from interoceptive processes (somatosensory, viscerosensory, chemosensory). From a predictive coding perspective we propose a shift to perceptual inference for stress modulation and optimal self-regulation. We describe how the processes that sub-serve self-regulation become more automatized and efficient over time and practice, requiring less effort to initiate when necessary and terminate more rapidly when no longer needed. To support our proposed model, we present the available evidence for yoga affecting self-regulatory pathways, integrating existing constructs from behavior theory and cognitive neuroscience with emerging yoga and meditation research. This paper is intended to guide future basic and clinical research, specifically targeting areas of development in the treatment of stress-mediated psychological disorders.
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“Physical Hatha yoga emphasizes becoming aware of the (moving) body and has been found to increase vagal/parasympathetic activity [8,25].”
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“First, there is evidence suggesting that yoga and other movement-based mindfulness practices may be especially well-suited for high-stressed populations and novices to the practice of mindfulness due to their embodied nature relative to seated meditation alone.30,31”
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“This supports the notion that postures, breathing, and meditation encourage an integrated and embodied way of processing and modulating bodily and emotional responses [8].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gard, T., Noggle, J. J., Park, C. L., Vago, D. R., & Wilson, A.
- Affiliations
- Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (DE)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- University of Connecticut (US)
- Corresponding author
- Vago, David R.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2014-09-30
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 770-770
- ISSN
- 1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4179745
- OpenAlex
- W2121755167
- Cited by
- 472
- References
- 181
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 30.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Biofield Effects and Biophysics
- Keywords
- yoga, self-regulation, mental health, interoception, bottom-up control, top-down control, predictive coding, perceptual inference, stress, autonomic nervous system, brain network integration, meditation
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