International Journal of Physiology, Nutrition and Physical Education
2021
A. Amrutha, Dr. S Alagesan
Yoga is an effective complementary approach to health maintenance and promotion for College women and has been demonstrated to support many dimensions of psychological wellbeing, from everyday stress to anxiety, aggression, and coping with health challenges. The Purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effect of Alternate Nostril Breathing and Meditation practices on...
Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
2021
Marco Bernini
3 citations
Abstract Booming Western interest in mindfulness and meditation has significantly mainstreamed breath and breathing practices, where focussed breathing is taken to be conducive to novel psychological states. Thanks to the regulation of breathing patterns, patterns in our thinking are not just affected but revealed, together with their entanglement with respiration (in a variety of looping...
2021
Paul L. Brackmann
1 citation
The impact that mindfulness can have on a person's wellbeing and empathy has been studied and well documented. The need for leaders to be emotionally intelligent and relationally focused has also been documented in the field of leadership studies. This narrative study interviewed eight organizational leaders who have an established mindful practice. The researcher explored the challenges and...
Advances in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care
2021
Jim Morningstar, Jessica Dibb
This chapter provides evidence for the benefit of bringing yoga and its breathing practices into a working relationship with contemporary breathwork techniques for the betterment of both in certain circumstances. The history and developmental overlap of both are explored as well as their applications in the field of physical heath, psychotherapy, and spiritual growth. The benefits of both...
UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES
2021
A. Morozov, M. Rohozha
The authors of the article focus their attention on the question of spirituality as an existential attitude of a person to the sacred mystery of be- ing. The ambivalence of the realm of the sacred is that being transcendental at the same time in the act of Epiphany it manifests itself in a variety of symbolic forms of personal experience. It is argued that spirituality par excellence is...
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Gabriella Conti, Orla Doyle, Pasco Fearon et al.
This manuscript presents a demonstration study of Quiet Time (QT), a classroom-based Transcendental Meditation intervention. The aim of the study is to assess the feasibility of implementing and evaluating QT in two pilot settings in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This study contributes to the field by targeting middle childhood, testing efficiency in two settings operating under different...
PLoS One
2021
Alex Gamma, Thomas Metzinger
To develop a fine-grained phenomenological analysis of "pure awareness" experiences in meditators. An online survey in five language versions (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian) collected data from January to March 2020. A total of 92 questionnaire items on a visual analogue scale were submitted to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Out of 3627 submitted responses, 1403 were...
Mindfulness
2021
Jeremy L Smith, Jason W Allen, Carla I Haack et al.
Previous research indicates that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety and depression and enhances well-being. We examined the impact of app-delivered mindfulness meditation on resting state functional MRI (fMRI) connectivity among physician assistant (PA) students and surgery residents. PA students and residents were randomized to receive a popular meditation app or to wait-list control...
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Ramana V. Vishnubhotla, Rupa Radhakrishnan, Kestas Kveraga et al.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an intensive 8-day Samyama meditation program on the brain functional connectivity using resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI). Methods: Thirteen Samyama program participants (meditators) and 4 controls underwent fMRI brain scans before and after the 8-day residential meditation program. Subjects underwent fMRI with a blood...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2021
Brian Key, Oressia Zalucki, Deborah J Brown
How subjective experience is realized in nervous systems remains one of the great challenges in the natural sciences. An answer to this question should resolve debate about which animals are capable of subjective experience. We contend that subjective experience of sensory stimuli is dependent on the brain's awareness of its internal neural processing of these stimuli. This premise is supported...