Psychoanalysis and history
July 28, 2023
Benjamin K. Dawson
1 citation
The article offers an intellectual reconstruction of Otto Isakower’s concept of the ‘analyzing instrument’, the vehicle by which the analyst’s mind becomes joined to the patient’s, each in a comparable state of regressed self-observation. This view of technique is shown to have grown out of Isakower’s pre-war research (shaped by the work of Paul Schilder and Paul Federn) on a variety of...
International Health Trends and Perspectives
July 28, 2023
Jasna Schwind, Heather J. Beanlands, Angel He Wang et al.
2 citations
Increasingly, research reveals that higher education students identify perceived stress and anxiety as negatively impacting their personal wellbeing, academic success, and future professional lives. Introduction of mindful practices into higher education settings has been shown to mitigate such stressors, and when practiced regularly, can enhance students’ sense of peace and calm. However,...
Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences
July 27, 2023
Yuqing Bao
1 citation
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are a form of mindfulness-based psychotherapy practice that has been found to help reverse cognitive deficits arising from psychiatric disorders and foster positive mental health outcomes. This paper explores how MBIs could be embraced to cultivate emotional intelligence, cognitive dexterity, and proficiency to handle stressful situations and challenging...
Healthcare
July 27, 2023
Erich Kasten, Jill Julia Eilers
5 citations
The review brings together a wealth of case studies, both from the authors' patients and from the literature, about people whose bodies do not feel as they really should. Body parts suddenly become longer or shorter, heavier or lighter and there may be a loss of body control to the point where individuals feel as if they no longer have a body at all. The article differentiates by type of...
Annual Review of Anthropology
July 26, 2023
John Marlovits, Matthew Wolf‐meyer
6 citations
Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as “normal,” which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the...
SCIREA Journal of Sociology
July 25, 2023
D. Raković
4 citations
We hereby focus on the quantum-holographic bases of psychosomatics and spirituality. This is of special importance due to the widespread use of integrative medicine in developed countries – as contemporary research of psychosomatic diseases suggests necessity of holistic methods (focusing on the body's acupuncture system and consciousness), oriented to treating man as a whole and not of disease...
Religions
July 25, 2023
Dominika Ruszkiewicz
The aim of this article is to situate Chaucer’s The House of Fame in the tradition of exercising the self as practiced by ancient philosophers and theorized by Pierre Hadot. It shows that Chaucer’s poem contains echoes of an ancient exercise referred to as ‘the view from above’, which engages the faculties of the imagination in order to enable an individual to review their life and to situate...
July 24, 2023
Wazir C Vasudeva
2 citations
This chapter highlights about yogic breathing as Highest Protection to Life. Yoga breathing improves health and speeds up recovery. There are a few significant yogic breathing exercises [pranayama] discussed together with their advantages and disadvantages. Yogic breathing aids in blood purification, sinus and nasal passageway clearing, increased blood flow, nervous system toning, and...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
July 23, 2023
Allison Aitken
1 citation
There’s a common line of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary, Mādhyamika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh–eighth century) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysically impossible. Lacking any unifying principle, the phenomenal unity of conscious...
Heliyon
July 22, 2023
L. J. U. Karunarathne, Lakmali Amarasiri, A. D. A. Fernando
16 citations
Purpose: Respiratory function is thought to improve with long-term meditation. This study aimed to assess respiratory function in a cohort of healthy long-term meditators and non-meditators in Sri Lanka. Methods: Respiratory function of healthy, skilled long-term meditators (n = 20) practicing Buddhist meditation consistently >3 years, and age-sex matched non-meditators (n = 20) were assessed...