African thought has long held the body as a primary site of knowing. In Nguni-Zulu epistemology, izinseka names a class of somatic knowing spanning pre-cognitive reflexive response to another’s distress, cultivated empathic sensitivity of caregivers, and refined diagnostic insight of isangoma. Western psychology has typically approached such knowing through a pathology frame, reading somatic...
This paper presents a critical assessment of Michael Tye’s and David Chalmers’ criticisms of the phenomenal concept strategy. The assessment is done with a view to defend the phenomenal concept strategy against Tye’s and Chalmers’ arguments. The phenomenal concept strategy is a strategy developed by physicalists to defend physicalism in the attempt to address the problem of consciousness. For...
InkanyisoSeptember 13, 2011Luke Clark, S. D. Edwards, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala et al.5 citations
The stressful lifestyles that accompany modern living generate levels of anxiety that become a major concern in society. Psychopharmacological medication and psychotherapy for anxiety is expensive for government health departments as well as for individual consumers. Although the value of yoga as a beneficial and cost effective therapy for anxiety has long been advocated, there have been very...
Breath psychotherapy is an approach that makes direct use of the breath in healing. There are many forms of breathbased healing: basic breathing and relaxation methods, with or without the practice of psychological skills such as imagery, centring and concentration; expressive physical and emotional techniques; advanced meditation, prayer and other spiritual exercises. Such an approach has been...