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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 180704, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/180704 Research Article Shaolin Dan Tian Breathing Fosters Relaxed and Attentive Mind: A Randomized Controlled Neuro-Electrophysiological Study Agnes S. Chan,1, 2, 3 Mei-Chun Cheung,4 Sophia L. Sze,1, 2 Winnie Wing-Man Leung,1 and Dejian Shi3 1 Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong 2 Integrative Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong 3 Henan Songshan Research Institute for Chanwuyi, Henan 452470, China 4 Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Correspondence should be addressed to Agnes S. Chan, aschan@.hk Received 8 March 2010; Revised 29 April 2010; Accepted 10 July 2010 Copyright © 2011 Agnes S. Chan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Neuro-electrophysiological studies on meditative breathing revealed its association with either a relaxed or an attentive state. The present study aimed to investigate whether the Shaolin Dan Tian Breathing (DTB) technique, which consists of the Passive and Active subtypes and can be considered as a relaxation exercise and Qigong, would induce both relaxed and attentive states. Twenty- two adults and 22 age-, gender- and education-matched controls received training on the Shaolin DTB (experimental group) and the progressive muscle relaxation respectively for one month. Eyes-closed resting EEG data before and immediately after ea