Título:	Efeitos da biometenergia de praticantes de meditação prânica sobre as dores crônicas de coluna vertebral
Autor(es):	Silva, César Augustus Fernandes da
Orientador(es):	Tosta, Carlos Eduardo
Assunto:	Meditação prânica Biometenergia Coluna vertebral - doenças Dor crônica Termografia infravermelha
Data de publicação:	5-Mai-2016
Data de defesa:	24-Fev-2016
Referência:	SILVA, César Augustus Fernandes da. Efeitos da biometenergia de praticantes de meditação prânica sobre as dores crônicas de coluna vertebral. 2016. xiii, 146 f., il. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências Médicas)—Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2016.
Abstract:	Introduction: Pranic meditation is a modality of meditation whose techniques allow the practitioner purportedly to capture, concentrate, and project biometenergy (BME), capable to act for the maintenance and recovery of multidimensional health, both of ourselves (self-healing), and of other people (alter-healing), including by means of treatments at a distance. It is postulated that BME is an array of non-physical energies that transcend space-time, are not blocked by physical barriers and can convey intention. The properties of BME, including its healing effects, are poorly understood. Objectives: The present investigation aimed at evaluating the effects of BME, both that actively captured by pranic meditation practitioners, as well as that projected at a distance by them, on chronic back pain, anxiety, and depression, as well as to establish some of its properties. Methodology: The investigation comprised two independent but complementary studies. The first one, a temporal series study, consisted of the observation of 49 recent pranic meditation practitioners suffering of chronic back pain, who learned how to actively manipulate BME to benefit them, during a period of 5-week of meditation practices. The second study was a randomized, cross-over, double-blind evaluation of 26 individuals, who were treated at a distance with 12 sessions of about 17 minutes each, provided by a experienced practitioner of pranic meditation, who projected to them BME with healing intention. The participants of both studies presented chronic back pain with or without anxiety and/or depression. To evaluate pain intensity both the McGill questionnaire (studies 1 and 2) and the faces pain scale (study 2) were used, while anxiety and depression were assessed by the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory, respectively (studies 1 and 2). The quality of life of the subjects of study 1 was evaluated by means of the questionnaire adopted by the World Health Organization (WHOQOL-BREF). To evaluate the properties of BME, the biometenergetic field was measured before and after each session of pranic meditation (study 1), or of treatment at a distance (study 2), and thermographic images from the back of patients were captured by an infrared-sensitive camera during BME or sham treatments (study 2). Results: In the first study, the participants presented a significant improvement of their manifestations of chronic pain (p<0.0001), anxiety (p=0.006), and depression (p=0.0007), as well as of their quality of life (p<0.0001), after 5 weeks of pranic meditation practice. In parallel with these improvements, a significant increment of the biometenergetic field (p<0.0001) of the practitioners was observed. The results of the second study showed that three weeks of BME treatment at a distance with healing intention were able to significantly reduce chronic back pain (p=0.02), and the manifestations of anxiety adjusted by depression (p<0.001), and depression adjusted by anxiety (p=0.003). After each session of BME treatment, but not of sham treatment, the subjects presented a significant decrease of pain intensity (p=0.01), as assessed by the faces pain scale. It was also observed a significant increase of the biometenergetic field (p=0.001), and of the skin temperature alongside the vertebral column (p<0.001) in the subjects treated with BME, but not in those submitted to sham treatment. Conclusions: The present investigation showed that both the active manipulation of BME by recent practitioners of pranic meditation, and the passive reception of BME with healing intention provided by an experienced pranic meditation practitioner, had beneficial effects on individuals with chronic back pain with or without associated anxiety and/or depression. Our results indicate that the projection of BME with healing intention, but not the sham treatment, increased the skin temperature alongside the vertebral column and expanded the biometenergetic field of the subjects who were submitted to its action. These findings allow us to consider these procedures as possible markers to evaluate the effect of biometenergetic treatments, something that does not exist nowadays.
Unidade Acadêmica:	Faculdade de Medicina (FM)
Informações adicionais:	Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Medicina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, 2016.
Programa de pós-graduação:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas
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DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/2016.02.T.20139
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