April 5, 2023
Joseph J. Loizzo
This chapter reviews the neuropsychology of meditation and its beneficial impact on brain processing and integration, based on the evidence-based developmental approach of interpersonal neurobiology and the basic principles of complexity theory. Unpacking the implications of neuroplasticity for human development, transformation, and psychotherapy, the chapter focuses on the neurobiology of the...
Journal of Research in Social Science And Humanities
April 1, 2023
Vinod Kumar
4 citations
The paper strives to elucidate the complex yet intimate relation between spirituality and mental health from contemporary perspectives. The diverse and constantly evolving views that spiritualists and mental health professionals have held toward each other over last century are discussed with special accent on the transpersonal spiritual framework within psychology. The role of spirituality in...
Journal of Religion & Film
April 1, 2023
Wanda E Avila
1 citation
Baraka: A World Beyond Words (1992) is a guided meditation that aims to induce the transcendent experience in the viewer. Through the eyes of a Zen Buddhist monk, the viewer is invited to meditate on the various phenomena that testify to the existence of the transcendent (the first eight chapters), to experience the everyday world where the transcendent is painfully absent (the next eleven...
March 30, 2023
Christopher Rinderle
In this work I take on one of the most axiomatic assumptions humans possess. The sense of self is embedded so deeply inside each one of us that to question it seems utterly ridiculous. Fortunately, I do not outright reject the notion of selfhood. I investigate what it is and is not through multiple angles – ancient and contemporary – which leads to investigations of free will and...
SMARATUNGGA JURNAL OF EDUCATION AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
March 29, 2023
M. Gargiulo
In recent decades, the academic literature on mindfulness has grown rapidly as it uncovers similarities and differences between mindfulness practices in Buddhism, Stoic philosophy, and Christian meditation. This research, which is still in its early stages, aims to distinguish the specific notes or elements that represent each of these mindfulness practices within a conceptual framework....
Religions
March 28, 2023
J. Stephenson
The Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha is an understudied text within Kashmir Śaivism, notable for its rich description of the inner structure of consciousness vis-à-vis the body and the natural world, and esotericization of Left-Handed Tantric Practice. Furthermore, it is also significant in its form; like the Buddhist dohākoṣas it consists of Apabhraṃśa verses with accompanying Sanskrit...
Brain Topography
March 28, 2023
Roberto Guidotti, Antea D’Andrea, Alessio Basti et al.
32 citations
Neuroimaging studies have provided evidence that extensive meditation practice modifies the functional and structural properties of the human brain, such as large-scale brain region interplay. However, it remains unclear how different meditation styles are involved in the modulation of these large-scale brain networks. Here, using machine learning and fMRI functional connectivity, we...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
March 28, 2023
Colin H. Simonds
6 citations
Abstract Whether occasioned through careful, consistent meditative practice or through quicker means like the ritual ingestion of psilocybin or ayahuasca, global contemplative practices have established effective systems of implementing, directing, and integrating the very kinds of non-ordinary experiences central to psychedelic use. However, contemplative traditions are largely absent from the...
INFLUENCE International Journal of Science Review
March 26, 2023
Sulaiman Girivirya
1 citation
The Buddhist guidance and counseling model was applied to a client who experienced post-stroke 3 stress disorder and was isolated at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Mindfulness of breathing, body and mind activities is very important in mindfulness practice. Mental relaxation treatments and measurements were administered using the first generation Muse™ "S" Series. Portable and...
Debates do NER
March 11, 2023
Isabel Cristina de Moura Carvalho, Giovanna Paccillo Dos Santos
1 citation
O artigo aqui apresentado busca compreender como se produzem os sentidos seculares, médicos e científicos do Mindfulness: uma prática associada, ao mesmo tempo, ao autocuidado e bem-estar no Ocidente, e à meditação budista, originária do Oriente. Vamos partir da ideia de que as práticas de Mindfulness fazem parte do que se tem denominado amplamente de “espiritualidade”, remetendo às cosmologias...