IBMT : integrative body-mind training

Anasi Sañay Dayanna Lizeth

Córcoles Cenón Nuria
Castellanos Pozo Milagros
Botia Navarro Ainoa
Gonzalez Ortega MªJosé

Tang, Y. Y. et al.(2007). Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 104(43), 17152-17156.
 IBMT

• IBMT is a technique that improves cognitive, emotional

performance and social behavior.

• The technique was applied by a period of instruction guided by

a trainer and a standardized training presented in a CD.

• It was applied during the decade of the nineties in China to

people from four years to the nineties.
 The Objective

The objective of the study is to demonstrate if the training of

short-term meditation improves attention and self-regulation.
 Hypothesis
1. The first hypothesis was the training and control group should not
differ before training because assignment was random.

2. The training would improve executive attention in the experimental

group.

3. If self-regulation ability improved in the training group, they should

also show reduced reaction to stress as measured by cortisol and
immunoreactivity assays.
 Method

• 80 subjects, men, 21’8 years average.

• Two group randomly assigned: control and experimental.
• All subjects do a pre-test and post-test.

• Training 20 minutes, during 5 days.

 Instruments

● ANT
● The Raven's Standard Progressive Matrix
● Profile of Mood States (POMS)
● Stress challenge
● IBMT
● Popular method relaxation
ANT
• Subjects respond to an arrow
target that is surrounded by
flankers that point either in
the same or opposite
direction.
• Cues provide information on
when a trial will occur and
where the target will be.
 Result of POMS
• Before training, none of the six
scales show differences
between the two groups.

• After training, the t test

indicates there are significant
differences in the experimental
group in A, D, T, V and F. No
significant difference in C.
Result of ANT
• Before training, no differences
for alerting, orienting, and
executive networks in two
groups.

• Only for the trained group, the

before vs. after difference in the
conflict resolution score are
significant.
The Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrix

• Scores of the Raven’s Matrices aren’t differ before training.

• The result reveals that short-term IBMT can improve the Raven’s score in
the experimental group, although only marginally more so than in the
control group.
Stress challenge of mental arithmetic task

• Subjects do 3 minutes of mental arithmetic that produces stress,

after 5 days of IBMT or relaxation.

• The effects of the stressor task is measured through cortisol levels

and sIgA.
Cortisol
• The graphic shows that a
baseline before stress there aren’t
significant difference between
two groups.
• After the arithmetic challenge,
both groups increased in cortisol
activity.
• After training, the experimental
group had a significantly lowered
cortisol response to the mental
stress.
Immunoreactivity
• There are no significant difference
between groups in sIgA at baseline
before stress.

• After mental stress, both groups

increased in sIgA.

• After additional training, only the

experimental group has a increase
of sIgA.
 Discussion/Conclusion
•It can be concluded that the method IBMT improves attention and self-regulation more
than the relaxation control. Five days of training reduces the stress response by mental
challenge, especially after 20 minutes of additional practice.

•The IBMT provides a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training
by using appropriate experimental and control methods similar to those used to test drugs or
other interventions.

•The findings further indicate the potential of IBMT for stress management, body-mind
health, and improvement in cognitive performance and self-regulation.
 Reference
Tang, Y. Y. et al.(2007). Short-term meditation training improves attention and
self-regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(43), 17152-17156.