“The Mysterious Innate” - (a message from Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Kryon.com, Aug 31, 2013

This live channelling was Given in the Washington DC area.

Lee Carroll

To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to provide even clearer understanding. Often what happens live has implied energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Gaithersburg in 2013.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. My partner steps aside, but he's still connected. We have said it before: this process called channelling, it is not a takeover. Channelling is a meld with permission, an agreement with the consciousness of the Human Being, along with his own Higher-Self. This meld agreement is not hard to make as long as the reality box of belief and tradition allows for it. If you have been taught that this process is not appropriate, then it's difficult to channel. So a great deal of my partner's ability to channel is that he knows that it is real and feels the peace about it.

Channelling requires training and practice so that it slowly becomes comfortable. It's a beautiful "place" where the Human Being can sit and just "be" for the few moments as the information is delivered without the intellect involved. My partner becomes a translator. He takes nonlinear, quantum information from my side of the veil and creates a linear stream into his cultural language. This has taken him years. It's a learned process.

The filters that the Human Being has in his mind are ones that are developed by the box of his tradition and upbringing. This becomes his "way of life" and then has to be set aside for the channelled message to become succinct and as complete as possible. These messages must be delivered in a way that will make sense to Humans, as much as possible, without Human bias. Dear ones, as you listen to these things, they may not all make sense. This is why we give the option to listen to these messages later, to be transcribed so you could sit with them and ponder them, so that you could link them with other bits of information and understand how they are connected.

The Lesson Begins

As I begin this lesson, I want to remind you why we're giving it, for we have never discussed these things in this completeness, so it is time to lay the foundation or the groundwork of the future. The best way to do this is to give an exposure of how things work inside you. As we expose these things, we use language that you're not used to and concepts that you haven't really worked with before. We're aware of this, but it has to start where it has to start, and this must be respectful for the variety of consciousness here. The many phases of learning that you are on have great variety, for some of you have been doing this kind of work for as long as you can remember, but others of you are just now awakening to the potentials of who you are. Regardless, we give the story and the teaching as though all of you were on board with it. It is appropriate for the day.

There are esoteric processes within the Human body that are very difficult to explain. Recently, we gave you several of them and how they work. We started talking about synchronicity and how it works with the Human body. We discussed Gaia, guides and energies on the other side of the veil. We've also given you a lecture on the elusive Akash. How does it talk to the cells of your body? Is it in your brain or is it not? What does it say? You can hear these Kryon messages in the past, because my partner records them all.

So now it's time to talk to you about conceptual belief systems and how they are starting to work in your favor, and how consciousness is becoming less linear. All of these things would seem to be concepts that are high minded, but some of you are using these right now. There is one in particular which we have saved until now, because it is difficult to explain. It is what you call Innate. There will be revelations today about how it works, which we have not said before or explained before.

A Brief Review of the Nine Attributes of the Human

There is a full esoteric system that we have channelled to you in the past called The Nine Attributes of the Human Being. These attributes interrelate and work together in a circle, and I want my partner to teach them in the near future. I want him to develop this into at least three parts of training so that humanity can put them together and see how they are related. This, in order to understand yourselves better. The nine attributes, as we have channelled them, are three groups of three. This is not that difficult to conceive of, but the difficulty starts when you try to understand how they relate to each other, what they might mean to you, how they are connected today, and how they will be tomorrow. There are nine of them. We told you that three of the attributes, one in each group of three, have the same name - the Higher-Self. We identified the groups as the Human Corporeal Group, the Soul Group and the Support Group. The Higher-Self was in each one of those. But the one we talk about today is squarely in what we would call the Human Corporeal Group and, like so many of the others, there's more to it than it seems. It is called Innate.

Innate

The word innate is part of Human consciousness. All of you have this at the corporeal level and we are going to discuss that today in a way we've never discussed before. We will be telling you only a little bit about it, but hopefully enough to tweak your interest and make you understand that there is more to you than you think - much more.

Innate has been described in the past as the smart part of your cells. Now, that might indicate that there's also a non-smart part, but let us say that it's a more ignorant part, and believe it or not, that ignorant part is your brain. Now the brain perceives many things and it's a most excellent calculator. It's the best memory and relational computational instrument on the earth today. Everything that you have experienced is in your brain. It tempers how you behave, what you do, how you act, what you believe, and how you perceive things. But let me tell you where it falls short. It doesn't know anything about what's going on within your cells or your emotional body. It may send signals to operate your body, but it is blind to what happens after that. It is also easily confused.

Your Brain is Not "In The Loop"

You can intellectualize this for a very long time, yet you will never find out from your brain how your cells are doing. Do you have an allergy to something that your body has not experienced yet? Perhaps it is a food you have never tasted or a chemical you have not seen. How would you know? As you begin to eat the food, or ingest the chemical, shouldn't the brain yell, "Don't do that! You are allergic to it! You will pay the price!" But it does not. It is not connected to cellular structure. But the innate is.

The innate is the smart corporeal body. It knows everything about your overall system. It actually is as smart as your brain, but in a different way. So, what can a Human Being do to find out if he/she is allergic to something? Let's say that is you, so you can ask your brain, but it has no idea. So instead, you place the food or chemistry in your hand and muscle-test it. That is called kinesiology, a big word for something very simple. Muscle-testing is using the body's innate to give you a "yes or no" signal about something it knows about, but that your brain does not.

So in the process of kinesiology, do you understand that you have acknowledged that there is a part of your body system that knows more than your brain? Indeed, this is a process that has been used for centuries, and it's very accurate.

This innate knows a lot more than what you're allergic to, my friend. It is also tuned in completely to the quantum parts of your DNA that know everything about your spiritual and cellular evolvement. Innate handshakes with your Higher-Self at all the three Human group levels, and that is difficult to describe. If you put this information in a circle chart, you can draw the lines between the groups and you'd see what I mean. It's your smart body, and it's connected to everything.

Let me ask you a question, dear one: Don't you find it odd that there are certain kinds of diseases that can lurk within your cells, that can attack you, yet you only know it through your discomfort or through your death! What kind of brain do you have that would not tell you about this? You never have the signal through your brain about any of it except discomfort and pain! But innate knows about it the moment it happens. Innate knows when it entered your body. As your white blood cells go to the places they need to fight, your entire immune system goes into alert! Yet you have no idea about it, since your brain is just doing what it always does - it computes and remembers. But, in this case, it does a very poor job helping you survive.

About Innate

What is innate? Where is it? This is difficult to explain. We told, you dear Human Being, that the elusive Akash information is not in your brain either. You cannot go to your brain to find out who you used to be in a past life. The innate is the same. It's not in your brain, but instead it's in every cell of your body and every molecule of your DNA. The difference between innate and the Akash is that innate is on top (a linear concept for you), and it is always broadcasting, always there. If you know how to listen to it and where it is, you can tune in. Muscle-testing is one way of knowing, a very basic way. Some of you also know that innate responds to acupuncture. Did you know that? Your brain does not.

The Merkabah - Innate's Quantum Field

Innate is aware of all things at the cellular level and is broadcasting all the time. It broadcasts so well that it flows into that which you call the Merkabah of the body. Now, the Merkabah is a quantum field around your body that pulses very strongly with esoteric information, including corporeal health. Many have the ability to see and read this field.

A medical intuitive can stand before you in various degrees of success and read the messages from your innate. This intuitive person does not have to muscle-test to know you've got something going on within your cells. They can see it or sense it within the field around your body. Now, you may have thought that a medical intuitive is looking at your liver or your heart, doing some kind of analysis. That's very linear thinking and is not what is happening. That's your box of belief working overtime. Instead, the medical intuitives are sensing the quantum energy within your field that your innate is broadcasting about your health, of what's going on in the chemistry, and of what might be developing inside you. It's different than you thought, isn't it? That's the innate and that's only one of the things that innate does.

Mining the Akash - The Role of Innate

What I'm going to tell next, we have given you before. However, I wish to explain it better in this communication. Your innate is also a governor of what you personally need. Let me explain: Turn a page with me. We have talked in the past about mining the Akash. So let us open that door for a moment. Is it possible, dear one, that you could go into the vast storehouse of the attributes of your past lives and pick out something that you need today? The answer is yes. It's called mining the Akash, and it is a staple of the Kryon teaching. However, the way it's accomplished by the individual Human is really difficult to describe. It's a personal intuitive process. However, one attribute of it that is often misunderstood is that permission from the innate is needed. This is because the innate smart body knows what you need. It is then the governor, or the filter, giving you permission regarding what can be pulled out of your Akash and used. It will say no to frivolous things and yes to the things that will allow you to cure yourself of disease, live longer, and increase the efficiency of your DNA. It's a smart body regulator.

Innate doesn't care how you look. It cares about your health. If you want to go into your Akash and pull out something that you need for survival, it's right there with you. If you want to make clearer skin, it won't respond. Do you see what I mean? It's the governor for mining the Akash. By the way, the Akash is very ready to be used for this. [Kryon wink]

You have earned what you've lived, dear ones, and it's very available. It lies in a quantum soup of lifetime information that is ready to be used. If you have a disease in your body right now, and perhaps you want to mine the Akash in a way that will create healing, you can. Like all nonlinear things, it requires a new, mature consciousness and practice to work. But the body is ready for you to "go get" the cellular structure of a past life that had no disease. The blueprint for this resides within you since you earned it and lived it. The innate is responsible for spontaneous remission! Science has no idea how a Human does this. The innate can help you "go get" the things within your earned Akash and place them into your cellular structure. That's how smart it is! Imagine clearing disease so completely that there is no sign it was ever there? It happens all the time. Imagine being able to drop a chemical dependency overnight? It's exactly the same principle.

Did you ever sit in a meeting and something is said or a feeling can happen, and you get chills? What are they? You might say, "They are chills of validation." Guess where they came from? The innate! The innate has the ability to signal you the truth. The brain does not. In fact, your brain will often get in the way. It's the brain that contains your box of belief. It's the brain that contains the perception of who you are based on experience and memory. It's your 3D survival instrument. But the brain can't give truth. It can only give you what it perceives as the truth, based on logical, processed, computed, synaptic reasoning and only based on your past experience.

Your brain can tell you not to touch the stove because of what happened once before. But it can't give you chills of validation from information it does not have. The intellect wants you to believe that your brain is supreme. However, the brain is only one part of the body system and not a very intuitive part. It is the innate that knows the truth. The innate is connected to the quantum parts of your DNA and, therefore, also knows of your spirituality and the truth of God inside.

The Next Step

One of the attributes of the future Human Being is to build a bridge between your Human consciousness and your innate. This is one of the three things in the cellular parts of the nine attributes lesson, the Human energies part. This needs to be a bridge of new tools so you no longer have to muscle-test. In fact, you can become your own medical intuitive. Doesn't this make sense? So, when a virus or bacteria invades your body - something your brain can't warn you about - you will know it anyway! This bridge will begin to complete the Human Being's evolution and is a logical next step for longer life. I know this makes sense to you. You should be able to sense these things when they occur rather than going to a doctor for tests. Going to a doctor for tests is not a bad thing, but it should validate what you know is happening and not be the discovery of it.

The Second Brain

Innate does so many things for you! Some of you are starting to get a bigger picture of where I'm going with this discussion. Here is a concept that we've not really broached before. We're going to give it a name, but please do not misunderstand it. You only have one word for your intelligent control center, and the word is called brain. So we are going to give you a concept that the innate is your second brain. It doesn't function like your first one at all, but it is smart and it is intelligent and it knows what you need. Sometimes it can even replace a function that your logical brain normally does.

Let me show you what I mean. Here is a puzzle, a conundrum of medicine: When an accident happens that severs your spinal cord completely, it leaves you with no feeling or muscle function from the waist down. This is because the signals from the brain to your muscles are no longer able to be sent. The pathway for those signals is severed. You then spend the rest of your life in a chair, perhaps even being fed by others. But the puzzle it that there are some things within you that continue to function anyway. One of them is your heart. Another is digestion. Many of these things continue to work even though you are told that your brain, the central nervous system, the organ that sends all the signals to make things work, had its signals severed. The conduit where the signals are sent within the spine is broken. So what keeps all these organs below the neck going?

Your heart depends upon signals from the brain to function. It needs the electrical pulses sent from specific parts of the brain, creating a synchronized rhythm in order for the heart to beat. Yet the brain is disconnected and the heart keeps its rhythm. How can that work? Now I'll tell you: The innate takes over and continues the signal. It's always there, for the Merkabah is body-wide, not centralized in one place as your brain is. The organs will continue to function, but the pathway to the muscles are gone. Even reproduction can still happen! The heart keeps going and digestion continues, and all without connection to the brain.

Innate is smart! It's a second brain. Medical science is often puzzled over this, and I just gave you the answer. So innate is the intelligence in your body that is smarter about cellular things than your brain. Now I want to wrap this all up.

What are you supposed to do with all this information? I want you to get in touch with innate. It's the heart connection, dear ones. The Higher-Self, innate and Human consciousness are the three Human energies that need to meld - Human consciousness, Higher-Self and innate.

When DNA starts to work at a higher efficiency, there are bridges that start to be built between these things. You'll start to feel them when you recognize and sense truth. When you start to have discernment and cognize things for what they are, you stop looking around for answers. You are far more self-contained, and your answers are often the same as those around you who have the same discernment engine. All this now comes from within, instead of an outside source.

Many will tell you this is all nonsense. They tell you about God and ask you to believe them. They tell you that you were born dirty, or that there are societies trying to control you, or that everywhere you look there's a conspiracy against you. They generate fear, and the result is Human fear, confusion, separation and even war.

The Smart Innate

What if you could start understanding the truth from the innate within? You would understand that you are a piece of God on this planet, and you can discern what is and what is not happening around you. The Human Being becomes smarter when the two brains come together and you're able then to see your own health situation, to catch things before they get out of hand, and even to sense the truth of God within the beautiful system of your Akash.

We told you this in the Akash discussion earlier. Every single one of you has a different diet based upon what works for you. There is no such thing as an enlightened diet, except the one given by your own discernment. The innate is smart. It works with your Akash and it knows all about your soul aspects. It is connected to your Higher-Self. It knows what diet will work for you based on your immediate past lives. This is in your Akash, and your innate is in touch with it.

Now, as you start to build a bridge to innate, everything starts to change. The questions that you ask in this room (and they're always the same), will not have to be asked: "Dear Kryon, how can (your name goes here) mine my Akash? I (your name goes here) want to go here, I want to know this, I want to know that. How can I (your name goes here) create this and that in our lives?"

Dear one, the day is coming when you will never have to ask these things, any more than you would ask a person on the street how to walk. Someday, when it comes to esoteric things, you won't feel you're in the dark or that there are missing pieces. When innate starts to be present in your consciousness, concepts will start to meld and the missing pieces will start to fill in. You're going to be a lot smarter about who you are, and one of the things that's going to occur is you'll know you're not from here! You will sense it! You're from the great central sun. You're from where I am from, and you'll know that you're eternal! You'll know that you've had more than one life, and it will be something that you know just like innate knows it and not something you intellectualize with the computer in your head.

It's the heart connection, dear ones. Innate is what creates emotion. Let me tell you, dear ones, that innate helps you fall in love. Innate gives you energies that you can't explain. Innate makes you just a little nuts (nobody can explain the "in love" feeling), but innate knows all about it. Innate can change every cell of your body, and it will ring true with information and help for you personally. This will create more discernment and a wise Human. There's nothing like it, and the most important thing is that "truth is truth", and more and more Humans will see what you see. Can you see how innate would serve humanity and how it shakes hands with your Higher-Self and knows about God?

This has been our story for this day - about something in you that is amazing and ready to work for you. Perhaps you may have not known the extent of it or what it was? Perhaps you didn't know how it worked or how important it is? Now you know a little more. Finally, the beautiful part: It's not an entity inside you, dear ones. It's you - the bridge from the corporeal body to the Higher-Self, the smart part of your cells.

And so it is. 

KRYON.

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Choir singers 'synchronise their heartbeats'

BBC News, Rebecca Morelle, Science reporter, 9 July 2013

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Scientists say choir members are so
 well attuned, their heartbeats are also
synchronised

Choir singers not only harmonise their voices, they also synchronise their heartbeats, a study suggests.

Researchers in Sweden monitored the heart rates of singers as they performed a variety of choral works.

They found that as the members sang in unison, their pulses began to speed up and slow down at the same rate.

Writing in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, the scientists believe the synchrony occurs because the singers coordinate their breathing.

Dr Bjorn Vickhoff, from the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University in Sweden, said: "The pulse goes down when you exhale and when you inhale it goes up.

"So when you are singing, you are singing on the air when you are exhaling so the heart rate would go down. And between the phrases you have to inhale and the pulse will go up.

"If this is so then heart rate would follow the structure of the song or the phrases, and this is what we measured and this is what we confirmed."

Sing from the heart

The scientists studied 15 choir members as they performed different types of songs.

They found that the more structured the work, the more the singers' heart rates increased or decreased together.

Slow chants, for example, produced the most synchrony.

The researchers also found that choral singing had the overall effect of slowing the heart rate.

This, they said, was another effect of the controlled breathing.

Dr Vickhoff explained: "When you exhale you activate the vagus nerve, we think, that goes from the brain stem to the heart. And when that is activated the heart beats slower."

The researchers now want to investigate whether singing could have an impact on our health.

"There have been studies on yoga breathing, which is very close to this, and also on guided breathing and they have seen long-terms effects on blood pressure... and they have seen that you can bring down your blood pressure.

"We speculate that it is possible singing could also be beneficial."

Brain regulates cholesterol in blood, study suggests

BBC News, By Emma WilkinsonHealth reporter, Sunday, 6 June 2010 17:12 UK

Too much cholesterol causes hardened fatty arteries, raising the risk of a heart attack.

The amount of cholesterol circulating in the bloodstream is partly regulated by the brain, a study in mice suggests.

It counters assumptions that levels are solely controlled by what we eat and by cholesterol production in the liver.

The US study in Nature Neuroscience found that a hunger hormone in the brain acts as the "remote control" for cholesterol travelling round the body.

Too much cholesterol causes hardened fatty arteries, raising the risk of a heart attack.

The research carried out by a US team at the University of Cincinnati found that increased levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin in mice caused the animals to develop higher levels of blood-circulating cholesterol.

Levels in the blood rise because signals from the brain prompt the liver to store less cholesterol, the researchers said.

It is known that ghrelin inhibits a receptor in the brain in its role in regulating food intake and energy use.

In a separate experiment, they found that blocking this receptor in mice also increased levels of cholesterol in the blood.

Potential treatment

The researchers said the finding needs to be replicated in humans but potentially opens up a new way of treating high cholesterol.

Study leader Professor Matthias Tschoep said: "We have long thought that cholesterol is exclusively regulated through dietary absorption or synthesis and secretion by the liver.

"Our study shows for the first time that cholesterol is also under direct 'remote control' by specific neurocircuitry in the central nervous system."

Fotini Rozakeas, cardiac nurse at British Heart Foundation, said: "This interesting study on mice shows for the first time that blood cholesterol levels can be directly controlled by signals transmitted from the brain to the liver where cholesterol is formed.

"This could potentially open up new forms of treatment to control cholesterol levels, which would be great news for people with heart and circulation problems."

She stressed that much more research would be needed before the mechanisms at play were fully understood.

"In the meantime, people should reduce the amount of saturated fat in their diet, take part in regular physical activity and, in some cases, take prescribed medicines such as statins, to keep their cholesterol levels under control."

Heart attack survivors 'fear sex'

BBC News,

Many heart attack patients worry about being intimate with partners

Heart attack survivors are highly likely to avoid sex, fearing it could kill them, US researchers say.

The team told an American Heart Association meeting that those whose doctors failed to talk to them about sex were most likely to avoid it.

Dr Stacy Tessler Lindau, who led the study of 1,700 people, said the chance of dying during sex was "really small".

The British Heart Foundation backed her call for doctors to discuss sex with their patients to allay their fears.

Experts say it is safe for heart attack survivors to start having sex again once they are capable of moderate exercise, such as climbing a few flights of stairs.

Sexual activity

The study of 1,184 men and 576 women who had experienced heart attacks were asked about their sexual activity prior to and after having a heart attack.

They were assessed one month after their heart attacks, and then again after a year.

The men, who had an average age of 59, were more likely to be married than the women, who had an average age was 61.

The men were also more likely to be sexually active prior to the heart attack.

But even after adjusting for these differences, patients who had been given instructions about resuming sexual activity when they were discharged from hospital were more likely to have sex in the following year.

Less than half of the men and about a third of the women had talked about their sex lives with their doctors.

And less than 40% of men and 20% of women talked to their doctors about sex in the 12 months after their heart attack.

One year on, more than two thirds of the men reported some sexual activity as did about 40% of women.

But men were 30% and women 40% more likely to report having less sex a year on, compared with before their heart attack, if they had not been given information on resuming sexual activity.

'Healthy sex life'

Dr Lindau said: "Most heart attack patients are sexually active. But for the most part, physicians just aren't discussing this topic with their patients after a heart attack."

She said that even when sex was discussed, there was nothing to show what the patients were being told - and whether the information was consistent.

But Dr Lindau stressed: "The likelihood of dying during sexual intercourse, even among people who have had a heart attack, is really small."

She said sex should not be dismissed as an issue simply because a patient was older or married.

"You can't predict by looking at someone if they are sexually active. Patients regard sex as an important part of their life, and they think it's appropriate for doctors to raise it as an issue."

Cathy Ross, a cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said patients should be given information about resuming their sex lives when they were discharged.

"Some people are scared of having sex after a heart attack in case the exertion causes another one. But this is extremely unlikely.

"You can still enjoy a happy and healthy sex life, even if you have a heart condition.

"As with any other type of exercise, sexual activity can bring on symptoms if you've a heart condition so keep medication like your GTN spray or tablets nearby.

"Caressing and being intimate is a good way to start resuming sexual relationships and increase your confidence."

Do hearts have memories? Transplant patient gets craving for food eaten by organ donor

MailOnline, by RICHARD SHEARS, 9:24 PM on 23rd December 2009

Transplant: David Waters received the heart from Kaden Delaney (top right). David holds Kaden's baby sister who was born after he passed away. He now craves Burger Rings - one of Kaden's favourite snacks

A transplant patient has developed an insatiable craving for junk food - after receiving a new heart from a teenager with a taste for fatty snacks.

David Waters is the latest example of an extraordinary phenomenon which sees some transplant recipients take on the characteristics of the donor.

Before being given the heart of 18-year-old Kaden Delaney, who was left brain dead after a car crash, Mr Waters, 24, had 'no desire at all' for Burger Rings, ring-shaped hamburger-flavoured crisps.

It was two years before he found out why the cravings had started suddenly after his operation.

Kaden's family tracked him down to see who had benefited from their son's heart, and they began exchanging emails. A curious Mr Waters then asked: 'Did Kaden like Burger Rings? That's all I seemed to want to eat after my surgery.'

He was astonished to hear that he ate them daily.

The case in Australia adds weight to a theory that the brain is not the only organ to store memories or personality traits.

Scientists say there are at least 70 documented cases of transplant patients having personality changes which reflect the characteristics of their donor.

Other astonishing examples include the case of American Sonny Graham, who received the heart of Terry Cottle, who had shot himself in the head.

After the transplant in 1995 Mr Graham met Mr Cottle's widow Cheryl, falling in love and marrying her.

Twelve years later Mr Graham picked up a gun and shot himself in the throat, leaving Cheryl a widow for the second time grieving for husbands who had shared a heart.

In another example, an eight-year-old girl received the heart of a murdered ten-year-old and began having terrifying dreams about a man murdering her donor.

Until then, the murderer had not been caught, but recollections from the girl's dream were so precise that police were able to track down the killer and he was convicted.

Mr Waters, from Adelaide, had been suffering from a stiffening of the heart ventricles and been given only a few months to live when he was given the heart of Kaden, from New South Wales.

But despite his belief that he might have 'caught' Kaden's craving for the snack food, a transplant expert cautioned against reading too much into the link.

Jeremy Chapman, Sydney-based president of the International Transplantation Society, said: 'There is no scientific basis of such a claim.

'There's so much fiction around transplants.'

But other researchers say the phenomenon, which is known as 'cellular memory', is not limited to those who have received new hearts.

Meditation 'eases heart disease'

BBC News

Heart patients saw a big risk reduction from practising meditation

Heart disease patients who practise Transcendental Meditation have reduced death rates, US researchers have said.

At a meeting of the American Heart Association they said they had randomly assigned 201 African Americans to meditate or to make lifestyle changes.

After nine years, the meditation group had a 47% reduction in deaths, heart attacks and strokes.

The research was carried out by the Medical College in Wisconsin with the Maharishi University in Iowa.

It was funded by a £2.3m grant from the National Institute of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

'Significant benefits'

The African American men and women had an average age of 59 years and a narrowing of the arteries in their hearts.

The lifestyle change group received education classes in traditional risk factors, including dietary modification and exercise.

As well as the reductions in death, heart attacks and strokes in the meditating group, there was a clinically significant drop (5mm Hg) in blood pressure, and a significant reduction in psychological stress in some participants.

Robert Schneider, lead author and director of the Centre for Natural Medicine and Prevention at the Maharishi University in Iowa, said other studies had shown the benefits of Transcendental Meditation on blood pressure and stress, irrespective of ethnicity.

"This is the first controlled clinical trial to show that long-term practise of this particular stress reduction programme reduces the incidence of clinical cardiovascular events, that is heart attacks, strokes and mortality," he said.

Dr Schneider said that the effect of Transcendental Meditation in the trial was like adding a class of newly discovered drugs for the prevention of heart disease.

He said: "In this case, the new medications are derived from the body's own internal pharmacy stimulated by the Transcendental Meditation practice."

Ingrid Collins, a consultant educational psychologist at the London Medical Centre, said: "I'm not at all surprised that a change of behaviour like this can have enormous benefits both emotionally and physically.

"Physical and emotional energy is on a continuum and whatever happens to us physically can affect our emotions and vice versa."

One in five men at risk of drinking problem

By Julie Steenhuysen, Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:32pm EST 

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - At least one in five men in developed countries are at risk of abusing or becoming dependent on alcohol during their lifetimes, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

 

The risk is about half that for women, who have an 8 to 10 percent chance of becoming dependent on alcohol.

 

And despite the popular belief that nothing works, there is help in the form of several effective treatments, they said.

 

"This is a serious problem," Dr. Marc Schuckit of the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California said in a telephone interview.

 

He said men have roughly a 15 percent lifetime risk for alcohol abuse, and a 10 percent risk for alcohol dependence.

 

"Once you carry one of these diagnoses regularly, you tend to cut your life short by 10 to 15 years," he said.

 

His findings, published in the journal Lancet, are meant to guide doctors on how to spot and treat their patients for alcohol dependence disorder.

 

This includes a range of problem drinking behaviors such as spending too much time drinking, having trouble stopping once started, skipping important life events to drink or recover from a binge, and setting and exceeding a self-imposed limit on the number of drinks a person plans to consume.

 

The definition also includes more classic signs of alcohol addiction such as withdrawal.

 

They said repeated heavy drinking increases the risk of a temporary bout of depression by 40 percent. And 80 percent of people who are dependent on alcohol are regular smokers.

 

Some 40 to 60 percent of the risk of problem drinking can be explained by genes, and the rest by environmental factors, Schuckit said.

 

That may explain why women have a lower lifetime risk.

 

"This is a cultural issue. More women than men are lifelong abstainers. A higher proportion of women than men never open themselves to the possibility of alcoholism because they never or very rarely drink," Schuckit said.

 

He said heavy drinking raises the risk of heart disease and cancer, even in those who do not smoke.

 

And despite perceptions that treatments do not work, he said most patients with alcohol use disorders do well after treatment.

 

About 50 to 60 percent of men and women with alcohol dependence abstain or show substantial improvement in a year after treatment, which can include drugs such as Forest Laboratories Inc's Campral or acamprosate, naltrexone, also known as Revia and Depade, and disulfiramacamprosate or Antabuse.

 

Schuckit said these should be used in combination with therapy aimed at helping people change their behaviors.

 

(Editing by Maggie Fox)

Bad bosses may damage your heart

BBC

 

Inconsiderate bosses not only make work stressful, they may also increase the risk of heart disease for their employees, experts believe.

 

A Swedish team found a strong link between poor leadership and the risk of serious heart disease and heart attacks among more than 3,000 employed men.

 

And the effect may be cumulative - the risk went up the longer an employee worked for the same company.

The study is published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

 

Stressful environment

 

Experts said that feeling undervalued and unsupported at work can cause stress, which often fosters unhealthy behaviours, such as smoking, that can lead to heart disease.

 

Previous work has shown that unfair bosses can drive up their employees' blood pressure, and persistent high blood pressure can increase heart disease risk.

 

For the latest study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University tracked the heart health of the male employees, aged between 19 and 70 and working in the Stockholm area, over a period of nearly a decade.

 

During this time 74 cases of fatal and non-fatal heart attack or acute angina, or death from ischaemic heart disease, occurred.

 

All the participants were asked to rate the leadership style of their senior managers on competencies such as how clearly they set out goals for their staff and how good they were at communicating and giving feedback.

     

The staff who deemed their senior managers to be the least competent had a 25% higher risk of a serious heart problem.

 

And those working for what was classed as a long time - four years or more - had a 64% higher risk.

 

The findings held true, regardless of educational attainment, social class, income, workload, lifestyle factors, such as smoking and exercise, and other risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

 

The researchers, which included experts from University College London in the UK and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, said that if a direct cause and effect was confirmed, then managers' behaviour should be targeted in a bid to stave off serious heart disease among less senior employees.

 

They said managers should give employees clear work objectives and sufficient power in relation to their responsibilities.

 

Cathy Ross, cardiac nurse for the British Heart Foundation, said: "This limited, male-only study suggests that a good, clear working relationship with your manager may help to protect against heart disease.

 

"Feeling undervalued and unsupported can cause stress, which often leads to unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, eating a poor diet, drinking too much alcohol and not getting enough exercise - adding to your risk of developing heart problems.

 

"Being fit and active can give you the double benefit of busting work stress and boosting your heart health at the same time."

Music speeds recovery from stroke: study

Yahoo News

by Marlowe Hood Tue Feb 19, 7:25 PM ET

PARIS (AFP) - A daily dose of one's favourite pop melodies, classical music or jazz can speed recovery from debilitating strokes, according to a study published Wednesday.

When stroke patients in Finland listened to music for a couple of hours each day, verbal memory and attention span improved significantly compared to patients who received no musical stimulation, or who listened only to stories read aloud,the study reported.

Those exposed to music also experienced less depression than the other two control groups.

Three months after a stroke, verbal memory was boosted by 60 percent in music listeners, by 18 percent in audio book listeners, and by 29 percent in non-listeners, the lead author Teppo Sarkamo, a neuroscientist at Helsinki University, told AFP.

The differences held true after six months as well, said the study, published in the Oxford University Press journal Brain.

Sarkamo's findings bolster a growing body of research pointing to the benefits of music and music therapy for conditions including autism, schizophrenia and dementia.

But this is the first time music alone has been shown to have a positive effect on victims of brain injury such as stroke, he said.

"Everyday music listening during early stroke recovery offers a valuable addition to the patients' care, especially if other active forms of rehabilitation are not yet feasible," Sarkamo told AFP.

Sixty victims of left or right hemisphere cerebral artery strokes were randomly divided into the three groups in a single-blind trial between March 2004 and May 2006.

Most of the patients, whose average age was just under 60, had problems with movement, as well as cognitive processes such as memory and focusing their attention.

Every day one group listened to at least two hours of self-selected music, most of it Finnish- or English-language pop. "The idea was to include only music with lyrics the patients could understand," said Sarkamo.

A second group listened to audio books, and a third to neither.

The 54 patients who completed the study were subjected to a battery of cognitive and psychological tests.

Sarkamo speculates that three mechanisms in the brain account for the startling impact of song and melody.

One is an enhanced arousal of a part of the brain implicated in feelings of pleasure and reward that is stimulated by the release of dopamine, a hormone and neurotransmitter.

Previous research has shown that increased dopamine enhances alertness, speed of information processing, attention, and memory in healthy humans.

Music also directly stimulates the damaged areas of the brain, as well as the more general mechanisms related to "brain plasticity," the ability of the brain to repair and renew its neural networks after damage.

Sarkamo cautioned that his findings should be replicated by other larger-scale clinical trials before music is systematically integrated into the recovery regimen of stroke patients.

And music listening may not work for all stroke victims, he cautioned.

But if validated, the study points to an easy and cost-effective therapy for recovering stroke patients.

"Stroke patients typically spend about three-quarters of their time each day in non-therapeutic activities, mostly in their rooms, inactive and without interaction," Sarkamo said.