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Sartre Studies International December 1, 2018 Dane Sawyer 3 citations
In this article, I consider the rising interest in mindfulness meditation in the West and submit it to an analysis from a Sartrean phenomenological and ontological perspective. I focus on a common form of Buddhist meditation known as ānāpānasati, which focuses on the breath, in order to draw connections between common obstacles and experiences among meditation practitioners and Sartre’s...
November 24, 2018 Peter Bray
There has been surprisingly little research conducted concerning the relationship between controlled breathing and the emergence, release, and subsequent management of traumatic experiences. This chapter presents the author’s personal experience of Stanislav and Christina Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork. This treatment is designed to safely and intentionally engage with, accentuate, and release...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy November 1, 2018 Crystal L Park, A Rani Elwy, Meghan Maiya et al.
Yoga interventions are heterogeneous and vary along multiple dimensions. These dimensions may affect mental and physical health outcomes in different ways or through different mechanisms. However, most studies of the effects of yoga on health do not adequately describe or quantify the components of the interventions being implemented. This lack of detail prevents researchers from making...
Asian Medicine October 16, 2018 Joseph S. Alter 1 citation
The history of modern yoga is rooted in the history of alchemy and the practice of magic in medieval India. In physiological terms it is also intimately linked to tantric ideas concerning the immobilisation of semen. However, modern yoga as a form of practice which emphasises physical fitness, wellness and holistic health, emerged more directly out of the early twentieth-century yoga...
M/C Journal October 15, 2018 Evija Trofimova, Sophie Nicholls 3 citations
IntroductionTwo writers, stuck in our university offices, decide to take our thoughts “for a walk” across the page. Writing from Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, and Auckland, New Zealand, we are separated by 18,000 kilometres and 11 hours, and yet here, on the page, our paths meet. How does walking, imaginary or real, affect our thinking? How do the environments through which we move, and the...
Journal of Development Research October 1, 2018 Anil K. Maheshwari
empirical research showing that transcending together creates a laser beam like coherence in the Yoga Sutra is an ancient Vedic text that provides a collective consciousness that destroys all negative comprehensive manifold path for achieving union with tendencies (Maharishi 1995; Orme-Johnson et al.Supreme Consciousness.It also states that coherence in 1983; Hagelin et al., 1998; Dilbeck and...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand September 24, 2018 Kay Ryan
As we age or become terminally ill, we are confronted by our mortality. Being confronted by our own or another’s death can be a time of accelerated and profound growth and development. Using examples from research and personal experience working in a hospice, this article explores challenges facing our own dying as well as that of clients and family members. It discusses the relevance and...
Routledge eBooks September 14, 2018 Jennifer Leigh 2 citations
An on-going process of conscious self-awareness about the body, the mind, feelings, images, thoughts and emotions. Embodiment is commonly understood to be about the mind/body connection, or the presence of the meaty, fleshy, breathing body in the world to some extent. Somatic practices are practices that bring about the integration of the mind/body/consciousness. Although this approach has...
Journal of Psychiatry and Behaviour Therapy July 16, 2018
Purpose:To examine the effect of Raja-yoga group therapy on the immediate well-being of psychiatric outpatients compared to a standard method, namely supportive-dynamic group psychotherapy.Methods: Seventy-two psychiatric outpatients, the subjects, with DSM IV-R mood, anxiety and other disorders, underwent group therapy utilizing Raja-yoga treatment.The current Axis V GAF scores of the subjects...
Frontiers in Psychology July 2, 2018 Timo Torsten Schmidt, Hendrik Berkemeyer 75 citations
The experimental induction of altered states of consciousness (ASC) constitutes a research opportunity to relate changes in phenomenological states to underlying biophysical mechanisms. A variety of pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods were reported to induce consciousness alterations in humans, ranging from the consumption of psychoactive drugs to special breathing techniques or...