Pain Management Nursing
September 1, 2026
Ai-Ping Feng, Hua Chen, Shen-Min Song et al.
PURPOSE Hemophilic arthropathy is a debilitating condition characterized by recurrent hemarthroses, leading to severe joint pain and eventual need for total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Postoperative pain management in this population is highly complex as the result of inherent bleeding risks, intense perioperative anxiety, and a frequently observed "pain-fear-immobility" cycle. The growing need...
Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
September 1, 2026
Peter M. Nguyen
Abstract:This essay interprets Edith Stein’s resistance to totalitarianism as a spiritually grounded way of life shaped by Eucharistic practice rather than as a purely philosophical critique. Inspired by Stein’s lectures on philosophical and theological anthropology, it develops a constructive account of Eucharistic spirituality that attends to contemplative scripture reading, prayer before the...
Nutrition And Food In Health And Disease
September 1, 2026
M Arpith Kumar L
Mindful eating brings nonjudgmental, present-moment awareness to eating, fostering a deeper connection between mind and body.Rooted in Eastern traditions such as mitahara in the Śāṇḍilya Upanishad and the Bhagavad-Gita's sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic food categories, as well as modern mindfulness practices pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn, it emphasises full sensory engagement and honest recognition...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
September 1, 2026
Edward Bever
Abstract: Magic is a useful term because it references something real: a set of phenomena stemming from alterations of neural functioning that facilitate heightened access to knowledge and manifestation of human powers. Witchcraft anthropologically defined centers on the potential for one person's ill-will to be communicated and trigger another's illness or accident spontaneously through the...
International Journal of Sanskrit Research
September 1, 2026
Authors Names Swapan Samanta
Every contemplative discipline begins because something in the practitioner requires cultivation. This paper asks what becomes of the practitioner's dependence on the cultivating instrument once cultivation succeeds. It proposes the Ceiling Theorem: a pathway of practice becomes a ceiling when the integration it has helped to cultivate grows increasingly contingent on the preservation of that...
International Journal of Sanskrit Research
September 1, 2026
Authors Names Swapan Samanta
This paper proposes “epistemological function” as a comparative category for reading Sanskrit epic narrative and applies it to two well-known episodes: the Viśvarūpa of Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter XI, and the sustained portrait of Hanumān in the Sundarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa. Both, in different ways, address a single pedagogical difficulty: how a mode of consciousness that exceeds ordinary...
International Journal of Yogic Human Movement and Sports Sciences
September 1, 2026
Arun Pratap Rajak, Yatendra Kumar Singh, Kamta Prasad Sahu
Background: Voluntary breath-holding depends on lung volume, chemical drive to breathe, respiratory muscle function and the ability to endure respiratory discomfort, and these are the very functions that yogic practices aim to train. Aim: This study evaluated whether twelve weeks of integrated yogic practice alters breath-holding capacity (BHC) in male undergraduates. Methods: One hundred and...
International Journal of Yogic, Human Movement and Sports Sciences
September 1, 2026
Ravi Shankar Singh, Lokendra Pal Singh Chauhan
To evaluate the effect of a structured 12-week yogic intervention comprising yogic asanas, pranayama and guided meditation on stress, anxiety and sleep pattern among adult male cardiac and diabetic patients. Sixty male patients aged 45-70 years (30 cardiac and 30 diabetic) participated; within each clinical category, 15 were assigned to an experimental group and 15 to a control group. The...
Communication & Cognition
September 1, 2026
John-Michael M. Kuczynski
This paper consists of two interconnected parts, both challenging mainstream computational views of mind and intelligence. In the first part, the author argues for a fundamental reconceptualization of cognition. He contends that the success of neural network-based AI and the universal properties of human language expose key limitations of classical computational theories of mind. Instead of...
Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative
September 1, 2026
Zhuo Job Chen, Kelsey Julian, Michael J. Persin et al.
Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) provides a framework for understanding the integration of psychological, neural, endocrine, and immune processes, yet it has rarely engaged non-Western models of mind–body regulation. This study examines Zhanzhuang (aka Chan-chuang), a Daoist standing meditation centered on the cultivation of qi, as a potential PNEI intervention. We present the protocol...