This study was prepared to examine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on cognitive flexibility and early maladaptive schemas in a group of young adults. The research was carried out with the participation of 18 young adults without a psychiatric diagnosis. The research process consists of eight weeks, with each week's session lasting two and a half hours. In addition to...
This paper presents an original interpretation of the Upanishads that the inner self is located in the embryo brain region of the brain. This is the part of the brain already present in the embryo and consists of the brainstem, hypothalamus, thalamus, and midbrain. It is also the part of the brain that operates during dreaming and deep sleep and causes the transition from sleeping to waking...
Mindfulness-based interventions are known to increase false memory. However, high trait mindfulness is associated with an external encoding style and field independence, which in turn are associated with low false memory. The present study used a bilingual context to disentangle these contrasting findings. Sixty Chinese-English bilinguals completed a Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false...
The title is, of course, an allusion to Darwin's classic book "On the Origin of Species."Here we are concerned with the question of whether there is actually an origin of consciousness or if consciousness is eternal and its availability limited by physical senses.A car crash in 1987 opened my mind to the possibility of consciousness existing independent of the senses i.e. independent of the...