The Coherence Effect

With a Foreword by Tony Nader MD PhD (author of One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness) The Coherence Effect describes the highly effective daily health routine followed by yogis and sages for centuries as well as the science demonstrating what it can do for the ailments of the modern world. Kirkus Reviews states: The authors make bold claims at the start of this book saying that it describes a simple yet profound formula for enhancing health and even generating happiness and high performance. However its in-depth research cited studies scientific charts and references do effectively lay out its case regarding holistic-healing practice. The simple formula mentioned is that todays health programs like those of the yogis and sages of antiquity need to create coherence (a high degree of orderliness) in the functioning of the brain and body to have a maximum healing effect. Chronic largely incurable diseases affect 135 million Americans. The authors argue that whats wrong in healthcare is that we dont apply the coherence principle to what really keeps us healthy-the food we eat and our digestion exercise meditation and guidelines for good sleep. Meditation was revered by accomplished yogis and modern science tells us the reason: Effective meditation produces brain wave coherence measurable by EEG. Brain wave coherence increases memory learning ability moral reasoning and other aspects of mental performance increase and depression anxiety PTSD high blood pressure and other disorders are reduced or eliminated. The books research and personal accounts compare numerous meditation programs. The authors show that brain wave coherence is reliably generated only by the most ancient meditation technique of the great yogis revived in this age by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and taught as the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program. The book also covers the diet and other daily coherence-generating practices of yogis that led them to higher consciousness and support health happiness and high performance. For example those with problems of anxiety insomnia and constipation are benefited by foods herbs and spices that are different from those who are prone to anger issues skin eruptions hyperacidity and other inflammatory disorders. The book provides detailed diet digestion detoxification and other guidelines from the current revival of Ayurveda. Nancy Lonsdorf MD a popular author and Ayurvedic physician states This one book is all you need to guide you to health and flourishing in life. The book by Chris Clark MD (Yale Medical School) a psychiatrist first trained in the mid-1980s in the health principles of Ayurveda; Robert Keith Wallace PhD (UCLA doctorate in Physiology) one of the fathers of mind-body medicine whose ground-breaking early research on meditation was published in Science and Scientific American and the American Journal of Physiology; and Jay B. Marcus an attorney (University of Virginia Law School) who for almost 50 years has been a Transcendental Meditation teacher and yoga practitioner.