Global coherence, healing meditations using HeartMath applications during COVID-19 lockdown

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Global coherence, healing meditations using HeartMath applications during COVID-19 lockdown
 
Creator Edwards, Stephen D.
 
Subject — COVID-19; global coherence; healing; HeartMath; meditation; South Africa
Description International lockdown and social distancing as a response to COVID-19 indicate planetary interconnectedness. This South African case study compared global coherence, healing meditations using HeartMath Global Coherence and Inner Balance electronic applications (apps) before and during a 3-week lockdown period. Methodology integrated quantitative and qualitative components. Findings revealed significant meditation coherence and achievement increases and significant correlational cluster patterns between meditation data and global coherence increases, magnetometer readings. Local and global healing phenomena, dynamics, mechanisms and implications are discussed.Contribution: This article represents research within a paradigm in which the intersection of philosophy, religious studies, social sciences, humanities and natural sciences generate an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary contested discourse.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor University of Zululand, South Africa
Date 2020-12-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v76i1.6151
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 76, No 1 (2020); 6 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Stephen D. Edwards https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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