Title: Transcendental meditation and heterohypnosis as altered states of consciousness
Abstract: Abstract The effects of transcendental meditation and relaxation-heterohypnosis on subjective phenomena and physiological arousal were examined. One group of Ss, who were experienced meditators, participated in meditation, and a second group of Ss, who were highly susceptible to hypnosis but with little hypnotic experience, were exposed to hypnosis. A period of quiet sitting served as control for Ss in each group. Neither heterohypnosis nor transcendental meditation were identified as low-arousal states. They were assumed to be similar phenomenologically altered states of consciousness, mainly characterized by changes in the distribution of attention and in body image.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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