The present research conducted an analysis of the effects of mindfulness on emotional resilience and well-being of high school students, addressing the importance of incorporating this technique in the classroom using a qualitative approach and a descriptive design. The information was collected in Google Scholar, PubMed and Scopus platforms and, after a filtering process, 20 key articles were...
Career transitions constitute one of the most psychologically demanding phases in the lives of young people. The shift from education to employment, preparation for competitive examinations, uncertainty regarding career choices, unemployment, workplace adaptation, and changing socio-economic expectations frequently expose youth to heightened levels of stress, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and...
Objectives: Women experiencing infertility report heightened levels of anxiety, depression, and distress. However, access to affordable mental health care is limited in most areas of the world. Self-directed interventions, including bibliotherapy and mobile app-delivered interventions, provide a potentially cost-effective option for the treatment of infertility-related distress. This study...
This paper presents the Five Phases of Self-Acceptance, a phenomenological map describing how acceptance develops through distinct stages, from conceptual understanding through performed acceptance to genuine paradoxical integration. The core insight: acceptance includes accepting one's own non-acceptance of self. When this paradox is genuinely encountered (Phase 4-5), it appears to create...
Desire - defined in SKY doctrine as a mental attachment to person and materials is a universal motivational force that can advance survival and growth when regulated, but yield suffering when excessive or misaligned with ethical considerations. Simplified Kundalini Yoga (SKY), as taught by Vethathiri Maharishi, proposes Moralization of Desires (MOD) as a structured, introspective method for...
The distinction between the mind and the brain has been a longstanding philosophical and scientific debate that continues to shape our understanding of human consciousness. While the brain is a tangible, biological organ composed of neurons and synaptic connections, the mind represents the abstract domain of thoughts, emotions, perception, and self-awareness. This paper explores the conceptual...
Despite historical shifts, “science” has consistently meant epistemic authority, perhaps leading enactivists to cast their work accordingly. Yet enactivism sits uneasily with Popperian falsifiability, Kuhnian paradigm shifts, Hempel’s standards, and other philosophy of science benchmarks, but does better under Lakatos. Lakatos’s model holds that progressive science preserves a hardcore of...
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) and Active Inference provide a unifying variational framework for modelling perception, action, learning, and self-organisation across biological systems. While highly successful at explaining how systems maintain organisation under uncertainty, these frameworks remain explicitly neutral with respect to a foundational question: why there is experience at all....
Mind-body physiology, as an emerging interdisciplinary field investigating the interaction mechanisms between consciousness, intention, and physiological processes, is undergoing a paradigm shift from philosophical speculation to scientific empiricism, from phenomenological description to mechanistic elucidation, and from generalized intervention to precision targeting.