Psychology, Health & Medicine
January 8, 2018
Rebecca A Franklin, Michael P Butler, Jacob A Bentley
Yoga contains sub-components related to its physical postures (asana), breathing methods (pranayama), and meditation (dhyana). To test the hypothesis that specific yoga practices are associated with reduced psychological distress, 186 adults completed questionnaires assessing life stressors, symptom severity, and experience with each of these aspects of yoga. Each yoga sub-component was found...
NRCT Data Center
2018
Sukhumpong Channuwong
The purposes of this research were to present an integration of Buddhist teachings in stress management, and to form a model of Buddhist teachings in stress management. The research results show that stress is one state of suffering, which is caused by an accumulation of many problems in human life. Stress occurs when a person facing some problems feels that they are beyond his or her...
Journal of integrative medicine
2018
Chandra Nanthakumar
The number of children suffering from stress and anxiety in Malaysia is on the rise. Evidence shows that mind-body therapies such as mindfulness therapy, meditation and yoga have been practiced in many other countries to reduce and/or manage the psychological effects of stress and anxiety. This review article looks at the intervention of yoga as a meditative movement practice in helping school...
SOCIALNO-ECOLOGICHESKIE TECHNOLOGII
2018
A.Yu. Mironov, A.V. Sinin, V.B. Dorokhov
In research of lucid dreams (LD), an altered state of consciousness that occurs during the REM sleep stage, the task of LD identification is normally solved with a unidirectional communication method. An experimental subject, while sleeping, signals about his/hers state by performing a series of eye movements. We have developed a new alternative method that allows for bidirectional information...
Complementary Medicine Research
2018
Thilo Hinterberger, Felicitas Baierlein, Natalie Breitenbach
Background: Mindfulness meditation (MM) can be regarded as a practice for calming the mind, while the focus on their breathing can help meditators maintain a state of mindful presence. We have developed and evaluated an alternative method for reaching conscious states of pure being without the aid of a focus of attention. Methods: Skin conductance feedback was provided in real-time during...
Explore
2018
Helané Wahbeh, Amira Sagher, Wallis Back et al.
103 citations
Across cultures and throughout history, transcendent states achieved through meditative practices have been reported. The practices to attain transcendent states vary from transcendental meditation to yoga to contemplative prayer, to other various forms of sitting meditation. While these transcendent states are ascribed many different terms, those who experience them describe a similar unitive,...
Revista VIS Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte
December 2, 2017
Matheus Moura Silva
Este artigo descreve parte da investigação de doutoramento desenvolvida no PPGACV-FAV-UFG, na linha de pesquisa Poéticas Visuais e Processos Criativos. A linha de pesquisa possui como característica a criação plástica e desenvolvimento de saber teórico, em formato tradicional de tese. O que acaba por gerar uma tese-criação calcada na Arts Based Research, por esta ser uma das metodologias...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
September 1, 2017
Christina Grof, Stanislav Grof
65 citations
The Concept of Spiritual Emergency T here exists increasing evidence that many individuals experiencing episodes of nonordinary states of consciousness accompanied by various emotional, perceptual, and psychosomatic manifestations are undergoing an evolutionary crisis rather than suffering from a mental disease (Grof, 1985).The recognition of this fact has important practical and theoretical...
Scientific Reports
August 24, 2017
Étienne Allard, Elisa Canzoneri, Dan Adler et al.
55 citations
Dyspnoea, a subjective experience of breathing discomfort, is a most distressing symptom. It implicates complex cortical networks that partially overlap with those underlying bodily self-consciousness, the experience that the body is one's own within a given location (self-identification and self-location, respectively). Breathing as an interoceptive signal contributes to bodily...
Advances in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care
August 10, 2017
Frederick Travis
1 citation
This chapter explores subjective and objective correlates of the state of Yoga during Transcendental Meditation practice. Yoga fits the three criteria of a higher state of consciousness: (1) Yoga has a different subject/object relationship than other states. In Yoga there is no content—only self-awareness. (2) Yoga involves a more expanded sense-of-self. Content analysis of descriptions of Yoga...