Sleepwalking stage 3 and 4 gets up and walks while asleep, sometimes open eyes behaviors: getting knives, walking in yard/street, physically/verbally attacking cooking/eating getting into car telehoonne moving furniture feeding pets dressing bathing impaired cognitive functioning difficult to wake peaks at 11 years, happens in 40% of children
Sleep talking non-REM sleep more common in children than adults talking: monotone or loud doesn’t really disrupt the person who is doing it, just those around them
Night Terrors
Stages 3 and 4
Wake in a panic, screaming, breathing rapidly, increased heart rate
NOT preceded by nightmares
Person doesn’t remember it the next morning
Affects children ages 4-12 (3-7% …show more content…
show empathy, establish trust when they were relaxed, he arranged them in a circle and asked them to hold magnetized rods between each other, so they are all connected tell them to focus their attention on the rods he would make suggestions: you will feel a powerful force pass through you suggestible people then felt exactly that
Characteristics of Meditation art of relaxation and altering consciousness
Concentrative meditation: chant, repeat syllables concentrate on one sound or thing until one stops thinkng about everything else and reaches pure awareness distracting thoughts fall away instead of being suppressed become aware of the present moment, not worry about past or future
Mindfulness meditation
Quiet, not focusing on a sound or thing, just on the present moment
Gratefulness meditation
Focus on what they are grateful for
Effects of Meditation reduces insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, headache, and back pain reduce negative behaviors in prison increase self-esteem, social openness, attention reduce stress, relax, ease pain decreased activity in the parietal lobe altered sense of time and space increased blood flow to the thalamus and frontal lobe (assoc