Towards Excellence
June 30, 2021
Kaustubh Kamalesh Bhandarkar, Charusheela Ramesh Birajdar
Controlled mind is like friend, while uncontrolled a worst enemy. Meditation, a practical tool to get enlightenment; gain insight and develop compassion, empathy and perception, wisdom; well-being. The real purpose of meditation is transforming one’s mental and physical health in to more improved and healthy state. It is not to get stuck as thinking continuously, about one object of thought,...
June 10, 2021
Joseph Mishan
After a dream about the end of the world, Sally Gillespie closed her private practice to pursue a PhD in psychological responses to the climate crisis. She had practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for over 20 years. In this way, we are introduced to the transformational potential of the climate crisis, when met with courage and honesty and experienced through the medium of dreams, myth and...
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
May 18, 2021
Johannes Alfons Karl, Finley Ngarangi Johnson, Luisa Bucci et al.
We provide a critical review of mindfulness research, focusing on three core areas and questions. First, a meta-review and bibliometric analysis on mindfulness research trends identified a large number of meta-analyses published in the last 20 years, which tend to show positive effects on average, despite continuing questions on research quality, unclear pathways and uncertainty about the...
Sociology of religion
April 2, 2021
Daniel Winchester, Michal Pagis
While previous work has focused largely on discourse, contemporary sociological research has started to examine how the embodied, sensory dimensions of religious practice matter in the construction of religious experience. This paper contributes to this development by drawing sociological attention to the religious cultivation of a particular class of embodied experiences: somatic inversions....
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching
March 30, 2021
Peter Romaskiewicz
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The growing interest in meditation and meditation inspired classroom practices has garnered a share of advocates and detractors. The recent critiques in Candy Gunther Brown’s Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools (2019) offer the most trenchant legal and ethical obstacles to implementing a contemplative education in American public schools. I trace the contours of Brown’s legal claims...
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching
March 30, 2021
Patricia O’Connell Killen
Benefiel and Lee assembled this volume to advance a newer thread of conversation in the field of contemplative studies: the attempt to move beyond its privileging of Buddhism and Western science.Their own experience as scholars of Christian spirituality who attended meetings of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and of the Contemplative Studies Unit of the American...
Spiritual Psychology and Counseling
March 19, 2021
Peter M. Forster
This article addresses the little-studied area of the subjective experience of meditation through the analysis of the daily meditation diary of an experienced meditator over 2 months during the covid-19 lockdown in England in early 2020. The participant, who began meditating over 40 years ago, practised an open monitoring style of meditation for 90 minutes every day followed by 30-minutes of...
Berkeley Undergraduate Journal
March 1, 2021
Harrison Rappaport
Modern psychological research on meditation has demonstrated its extensive psychological and physical benefits. Much of this modern research relies on ‘mindfulness’ training protocols, such as the popular MBSR program (from the 1970s) and similar offshoots. Though certainly useful, these mindfulness interventions are limited in scope. Their contents do not reflect voluminous recent research...
PLoS One
February 23, 2021
Shun Miyashiro, Yurika Yamada, Toshizumi Muta et al.
In some types of meditation, such as mindfulness and Zen, breathing is the focus of attention, whereas during an excessive, short-period of anaerobic exercise, the muscles become the focus of attention. Thus, during both efforts, one's attention is focused on a certain feature of the body. Both meditation and exercise generally provide mental refreshment to humans. We hypothesized that the same...
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
February 14, 2021
Padmavathi Kora, K. Meenakshi, K. Swaraja et al.
OBJECTIVES The present investigation is to study the impact of yoga and meditation on Brain waves concerning physical and mental health. There are mainly three stages (steps) in the brain wave classification:(i) preprocessing, ii) feature extraction, and iii) classification. This work provides a review of interpretation methods of Brain signals (Electroencephalogram (EEG)) EEG during yoga and...