Patricia L. GerbargPatricia L. Gerbarg

Patricia L. Gerbarg

Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, New York Medical College.

Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, New York Medical College, graduated from Brown University (1971), Harvard Medical School (1975), Beth Israel Psychiatry Residency program in Boston (1979), and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (1992). Dr. Gerbarg has lectured and taught about a wide range of topics in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, women’s issues, trauma, neurobiology, natural treatments (herbs, nutrients ), and the integration of mind-body practices in psychotherapy for the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Meetings and many other conferences, academic centers, and community organizations. She serves on the APA Caucus on Complementary and Integrative Psychiatry and is a board member of the American Botanical Council.
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The Healing Power of the Breath
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The Healing Power of the Breath

by Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg

Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg are medical doctors, clinical psychiatrists and university professors. They also happen to be two of the world’s leading breath experts—integrating Western science and ancient breath techniques derived from yoga, qigong, Coherent Breathing, and Open-Focus meditation. Big Ideas we explore: Pill or 20 minutes?, Breath = portal to mind-body systems, Coherent Breathing, Resistance Breathing and turning off your worry centers via vagus nerves.

Quotes by Patricia L. Gerbarg

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For healthy people who have mild to moderate stress, twenty minutes of Total Breath practice once a day is usually sufficient. However, during periods of greater stress, it helps to practice twice a day.
Richard P. Brown & Patricia L. Gerbarg
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By increasing parasympathetic activity and decreasing sympathetic activity, Coherent Breathing balances and stabilizes the stress-response system, helping you to react more appropriately rather than with excess fear, anger, or feelings of helpless immobility. The increased parasympathetic activity calms the mind, slows the heart, lowers blood pressure, reduces inflammation, and strengthens stress resilience.
Richard P. Brown & Patricia L. Gerbarg
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What do Mahatma Gandhi, the martial artist Bruce Lee, Buddhist meditators, Christian Monks, Hawaiian kahunas, and Russian Special Forces have in common? They all used breathing to enhance their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Richard P. Brown & Patricia L. Gerbarg
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Remember, it takes time to rebalance the stress-response system and it takes time to rewire old patterns of emotional response. You need to put aside the endless distractions and tasks of your busy life so that you can focus attention on what goes on inside you.
Richard P. Brown & Patricia L. Gerbarg
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