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Effect of Help Programme on Happiness Level of Students in India

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 20, 2023 Raja Amarnath, Jaya Prashanthi, Manish Manchireddy et al.

Background: 'HELP Programme' featuring Heartfulness meditation presents a compelling strategy to nurture happiness among students. Recognized as a crucial component of students' educational journey, it contributes to enhanced academic performance, motivation, and social relationships. Aims and Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to examine the effects of the 'HELP Programme' on...

A human language-based consciousness model

Research Features July 20, 2023

e usually think of consciousness in terms of the subjective inner states experienced by humans, such as emotion, thought, perception, and self-awareness.Scientists from a variety of academic disciplines, from psychology to philosophy, neuroscience to mathematics, have been debating how these conscious phenomena arise in the brain.Neuroscientists have investigated the relationship between...

Fields or firings? Comparing the spike code and the electromagnetic field hypothesis

Frontiers in Psychology July 20, 2023 Tam Hunt, Mostyn Jones 28 citations

Where is consciousness? Neurobiological theories of consciousness look primarily to synaptic firing and "spike codes" as the physical substrate of consciousness, although the specific mechanisms of consciousness remain unknown. Synaptic firing results from electrochemical processes in neuron axons and dendrites. All neurons also produce electromagnetic (EM) fields due to various mechanisms,...

Study of Dhyana according to Yogic Literature – A Review

Journal of Ayurveda and Holistic Medicine July 19, 2023 Minal Belsare, Vidya Wasnik, Sumeeta S. Jain

Yoga is the ultimate act of harmony between one’s physical existence and spiritual conscience. In the Vedas, “Yoga” was used to designate a union or connection between various objects. These practices Of Yoga aim to control and perfect both the physiological and the psychological processes and functions. Dhyana is taken up in Yoga practices and is means to Samadhi. The concept of Dhyana is...

Consciousness of Machines and Upload of Our Mind

July 19, 2023 Giuseppe Roncoroni

Most men hold themselves in high regard and care about staying alive. Someone is intent on interrupting the decay of the organism, on counterfeiting the genes that preside over old age and death, but leaves the threat of disease and accidents intact. Artificial intelligence prophesies the advent of an automaton that will imitate man’s behavior in such a precise way as not to distinguish one...

Jain Yoga and Dhyāna

July 19, 2023 Parveen Jain 2 citations

This chapter explores some of the structural frameworks that important Jain thinkers have employed in terms of a Jain approach to the contemplative practices of yoga. Yoga is an essential spiritual practice in all dharmic traditions. Although the faith-based yoga practices like Jain Yoga, Vedic Yoga and Buddhist Yoga may seem to vary in their specific implementations, the underlying principles...

Comparative Contemplative Praxis in the Jain Yogaśāstra and the Hindu Yoga Sūtra

July 19, 2023 Cogen Bohanec

This chapter explores how certain contemplative practices of Jain sādhana as presented in Hemacandra’s Yogaśāstra (YŚ) relate to similar instances in the Hindu text of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra (YS) in terms of the teleological movement from preliminary “active engagement” ( pravṛtti ) to superlative “withdrawn disengagement” ( nivṛtti ).

Contemplating Jivas

July 19, 2023 Christopher P. Miller

This chapter focuses on the time the author spent at the International Summer School for Jain Studies (ISSJS) in Delhi in the summer of 2012. Using the ISSJS summer graduate studies program as a prism for experiential analysis, it surveys Jainism’s elemental meditations and concomitant views of the natural world as found in the Ācārāṅga Sūtra (ca. 4th c. BCE), Tattvārtha Sūtra (ca. 2nd c. CE),...

Psychophysiological stress response after a 6-week Mindful Self-Compassion training in psychiatric rehabilitation inpatients: a randomized post-test only study

Frontiers in Psychiatry July 18, 2023 Andrea Andorfer, Sabina Kraler, Paul Kaufmann et al. 2 citations

Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions (including self-compassion interventions) are effective in improving stress management at psychological and physical levels. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is a newly developed program particularly aimed at increasing self-compassion. The main objective of this study was to determine whether the psychophysiological stress response during a...

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for cancer-related anxiety and depression

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer July 18, 2023 Dan Yaniv, L. Ramondetta, L. Cohen et al.

Women with gynecologic cancers face various physical and psychological challenges throughout their treatment journey. Late stages associated with poor prognosis, along with chronic side effects of treatment, often leave women with existential uncertainty stemming from unpredictable disease trajectory and continuous fear of death. Recently, a patient in her late 30s (JN) with endstage ovarian...