Associations between attention,affect and cardiac activity in a single yoga session for female cancer survivors: An enactive neurophenomenology-based approach |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Scleroderma Society of Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;2. Scleroderma Foundation, Tri-State Chapter, Binghamton, NY, USA;3. Sclérodermie Québec, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada;4. Toronto, Ontario, Canada;5. Scleroderma Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;6. NVLE Dutch Patient Organization for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Utrecht, the Netherlands;7. Scleroderma & Raynaud''s UK, London, United Kingdom;8. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal;9. Asociación Española de Esclerodermia, Madrid, Spain;1. Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;2. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;3. Department of Clinical Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;4. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;5. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;6. Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;7. O''Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;8. Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;9. Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;10. Université Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France;11. Service de Médecine Interne, Centre de Reference Maladies Systémiques Autoimmunes Rares d''Ile de France, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France;12. Northwestern Scleroderma Program. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA;13. Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;14. Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;15. Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;p. Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Yoga practice is reported to lead to improvements in quality of life, psychological functioning, and symptom indices in cancer survivors. Importantly, meditative states experienced within yoga practice are correlated to neurophysiological systems that moderate both focus of attention and affective valence. The current study used a mixed methods approach based in neurophenomenology to investigate associations between attention, affect, and cardiac activity during a single yoga session for female cancer survivors. Yoga practice was associated with a linear increase in associative attention and positive affective valence, while shifts in cardiac activity were related to the intensity of each yoga sequence. Changes in attention and affect were predicted by concurrently assessed cardiac activity. Awareness of breathing, physical movement, and increased relaxation were reported by participants as potential mechanisms for yoga’s salutary effects. While yoga practice shares commonalities with exercise and relaxation training, yoga may serve primarily as a promising meditative attention-affect regulation training methodology. |
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| Keywords: | Neurophenomenology Yoga Meditation Attention Affect Cancer Heart rate variability Exercise Relaxation Mixed methods |
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