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These strategies were selected with the aim of facilitating elicitation of the relaxation response (Benson et al., 1974). Non-meditators were specifically Moroxydine instructed to avoid falling asleep during the relaxation practice, despite any inclinations that might arise. During the rest conditions both groups were instructed to avoid engaging in their meditation/relaxation practice, and instead, to explore their everyday thoughts (for example, thoughts about activities from the recent past such as what they had done the day before, or thoughts about potential future activities such as what they would do once the study had been concluded). All participants were informed that they would be receiving isoproterenol or saline at some points during the entire session, but that neither they nor the experimenter would know when the nurse administered a particular agent. The room in which the study took place was kept quiet and was dimly lit throughout duration of the study to minimize distractions. Participants were seated in a padded chair, with a curtain draped over the arm containing the intravenous line, in order to reduce distraction and to preserve the blinding. To assess task validity, after each meditation condition was complete, participants were asked to ��rate how similar your meditation practice just now compares to your meditation practice in general,�� on a scale from 1 (��not at all the same��) to 5 (��completely the same��). Non-meditators were also asked to rate their relaxation practice in a similar fashion, using the same scale. If they reported never having practiced the specific instructed relaxation condition, they were asked to relate their experience to other events where they had felt a state of relaxation. Infusion protocol Two sets of standard bolus isoproterenol infusion protocols and two sets of matched saline infusion protocols were administered. The isoproterenol protocols consisted of sequentially increasing bolus isoproterenol doses of 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 (mcg), delivered 3.5 min apart. The saline protocols consisted of five identically delivered bolus infusions of saline. Infusion delivery Each infusion (isoproterenol and saline) consisted of two 3 milliliter (ml) bolus infusions delivered sequentially through an intravenous catheter. During isoproterenol infusions, a 3 ml bolus containing the specified dose was delivered, immediately followed by a 3 ml bolus of saline to flush the line. During saline infusions, a 3 ml bolus of saline was delivered, immediately followed by an additional 3 ml bolus of saline. Both bolus volumes were administered in entirety within a 15 s period by a nurse from the General Clinical Research Center.