Institute of Health Promotion and Sport Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Ádám György Psychophysiology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary.
Biol Futur. 2024 Mar;75(1):41-50. doi: 10.1007/s42977-023-00195-y. Epub 2023 Nov 18.
Based on their characteristics, it is likely that mind-body techniques develop interoception, the perception of bodily state. Nevertheless, findings on mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and body scan techniques are inconclusive. Additionally, the methodological scope is not exhaustive, neither in terms of the intervention nor the applied measure of interoception. This study investigated for the first time the effect of regular yoga training on cardiac and gastric perceptual ability (measured with the mental heartbeat tracking task and the water load task, respectively). With the involvement of 90 female university students (yoga group n = 57, control group n = 33) we did not find any connection between baseline heartbeat perception score and gastric fullness. Moreover, the applied 10-week-long regular yoga training did not develop any of the measured interoceptive abilities. We conclude that yoga might develop other abilities than these specific sensations. Very probably, the measured cardiac and gastric perceptual abilities do not represent bodily sensations in general. It would be worth to investigate, however, the effect of longer yoga training on interoception.
基于其特点，身心技术很可能会发展出内感受，即对身体状态的感知。然而，正念、冥想、瑜伽和身体扫描技术的研究结果尚无定论。此外，无论是干预措施还是内感受的应用测量，其方法学范围都不全面。本研究首次调查了定期瑜伽训练对心脏和胃感知能力的影响（分别用心理心跳跟踪任务和水负荷任务测量）。在 90 名女性大学生（瑜伽组 n=57，对照组 n=33）的参与下，我们没有发现心跳感知得分与胃饱腹感之间存在任何联系。此外，应用的为期 10 周的定期瑜伽训练并没有发展出任何所测量的内感受能力。我们的结论是，瑜伽可能会发展出除这些特定感觉以外的其他能力。很可能，所测量的心脏和胃感知能力并不代表一般的身体感觉。然而，值得研究更长时间的瑜伽训练对内感受的影响。
