Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
June 1, 2003
I S Hirst
66 citations
The idea and practice of mindfulness has a long history in some of the world's religions and is also articulated in a number of secular discourses. The therapeutic potential of mindfulness is now being recognized and is being researched in a diverse range of healthcare settings including mental health. Being mindful presupposes that individuals whose awareness is not impaired do have a choice...
eScholarship
2003
Roger Walsh, Shauna L. Shapiro
An Analysis of Recent Meditation Research and Suggestions for Future Directions Shauna L. Shapiro, Ph.D. University of Arizona Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior University of California Irvine College of Medicine ABSTRACT: Meditation offers a rich and complex field of study. Over the past 40 years, several hundred research studies have dem- onstrated numerous...
Holistic Nursing Practice
2003
Ramita Bonadonna
146 citations
Meditation is becoming widely popular as an adjunct to conventional medical therapies. This article reviews the literature regarding the experience of chronic illness, theories about meditation, and clinical effects of this self-care practice. Eastern theories of meditation include Buddhist psychology. The word Buddha means the awakened one, and Buddhist meditators have been called the first...
Oxford University Press eBooks
January 17, 2002
Zara Houshmand, Anne Harrington, Clifford D Saron et al.
9 citations
This chapter sees into the mountain slopes of the Himalayas, where Tibetan monks who have spent many years in training and learning Buddhist philosophy and psychology, live in a retreat far from the secular world. These well educated monks have taken the brave step of joining forces with scientists to help with the understanding of how hours of meditation can have a substantial effect on...
MacSphere
2002
CLayton S. Chrusch
I use Northrop Frye's theory of symbols (from Anatomy of Criticism) as a methodological guide for my literary analysis of Thich Nhat Hanh's Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha. I also offer a significant interpretation of Frye's theory of symbols and its five phases of poetic language. Finally I compare the conceptions of freedom that Frye offers with conceptions of...
Critical Survey
2002
Antony Rowland
1 citation
An ontological need persisted in the writing of Ted Hughes, and continues in critical responses to it. This has manifested itself in various forms: Leonard Scijay detects a ‘mystical consciousness of the oneness of Creation’; in his recent book The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar eulogises the ‘inner being’ of the poet. Although different, these descriptions share a vague...
Journal of Human Values
2002
Rakesh Kumar Agrawal, Kiran Bedi
While living a life based on universal principles is well accepted by many, the reality of living acts as a great detriment to those who want to centre their lives on these timeless truths. Further, institutional mechanisms and work environments do not conform in general to such principle-centred living. The agents of the state, especially those in the police, have to work under tremendous...
Asian Philosophy
July 1, 2001
Frank J. Hoffman
7 citations
The thesis of this paper is that the question of whether and how statements of the form 'p and not-p' can have religious meaning in Buddhism can be answered in the affirmative and how in terms of a movement from pre-meditative to meditative state to a post-meditative state in life. The paper focuses on the Diamond Sutra in light of Shigenori Nagatomo's study (Asian Philosophy Vol. 10, No. 3,...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 1, 2001
Roger Walsh
The nature of the experiences induced by shamans has long been a topic of considerable controversy. The experiences occurring during one of the major shamanic techniques, the shamanic journey, have been described in terms of various psychopathologies or as identical to the transcendent experiences of Buddhism and yoga. Despite such claims, careful analysis reveals that shamanic journey...
American Journal of Electroneurodiagnostic Technology
June 1, 2001
Pei-Chen Lo, Jenq-Shiun Leu
8 citations
.In our study of EEG during Zen-Buddhism meditation, EEG signals recorded sometimes exhibit complex baseline drift caused by eye movement, deep breathing, etc. The baseline drift affects the grading of stages of meditation according to EEG rhythms. This paper describes a new method for EEG baseline drift correction. The method, utilizing the adaptive scheme, is able to extract the complex...