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Politics, Religion & Ideology April 3, 2023 Stefano Bigliardi 2 citations
Santo Daime is a religious movement that originated in the nineteenth century in Brazil. It blends shamanic practices, Christianity, and other traditions. Daimistas drink ayahuasca, a mind-altering...
International Journal of Psychology April 2023 Zhaoyang Xin, Fei Wang, Zilu Lu et al.
Attentional bias is closely related to individual mental health. To explore the effect of mindfulness meditation on attentional bias, we use the dot-probe task to measure and compare the attentional bias of 16 Shaolin monks with meditation experience (meditator group) and 18 ordinary people without meditation experience (control group). The results were as follows: (1) The control group showed...
Current Psychosomatic Research April 1, 2023 Asal Tabatabaee Irani, Farangis Demehri, Mohsen Saeidmanesh
Background and Objective Pain is one of the most common health problems that force people to seek treatment. It not only can cause discomfort, but also leads to severe, painful, and other consequences and affect a person’s life. For this reason, relief and pain control measures are the most important priorities for these people. This study aims to review the studies on the mindfulness-based...
Trans/Form/Ação April 1, 2023 Léo Peruzzo Júnior, Amanda Luiza Stroparo
Abstract: In this article, we intend to show how the theory of the extended mind, particularly Andy Clark’s arguments, can explain mental processes not as restrictive phenomena to the brain and endorse their connection to the body and the environment. Therefore, initially, we reconstruct the main materialist perspectives that have enclosed the self to the cranium; then, we indicate how the...
Exercise and sport sciences reviews April 1, 2023 Stephanie Voss, Jonathan Cerna, Neha P Gothe
Yoga, a physical and contemplative practice, offers the practitioner a unique mind-body exercise experience demonstrating preliminary efficacy in improving cognitive health. We examine the evidence for underlying mechanisms that explain the yoga-cognition relationship in healthy older adults. The cognitive benefits of yoga may be the result of improved stress regulation and neurocognitive...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews April 1, 2023 Péter Simor, Philippe Peigneux, Róbert Bódizs
Dreams are often viewed as fascinating but irrelevant mental epihenomena of the sleeping mind with questionable functional relevance. Despite long hours of oneiric activity, and high individual differences in dream recall, dreams are lost into oblivion. Here, we conceptualize dreaming and dream amnesia as inherent aspects of the reactive and predictive homeostatic functions of sleep. Mental...
AJOB Neuroscience April 1, 2023 C Dalrymple-Fraser
People crossing the border into the United States or Canada may find their electronic devices subject to search. Border agents can require travelers to unlock their devices, and then browse through...
Dramatherapy April 1, 2023 B. Bayley
This piece stems from my own experience of a threshold consciousness that followed life-or-death surgery in 2015, when surgeons had informed me that I had only 2 days to live and offered me 2 days palliative care as an alternative choice. My survival of the surgery together with the experience of that threshold consciousness led me to a re-appraisal of my own practice in Dramatherapy. Out of my...
Performance and Mindfulness March 31, 2023 Claudia Mele
The text addresses the notions of creativity, intuition and visualisation in the work of the performing artist. These faculties can be stimulated through contemplative practices, such as meditation, for the development of a powerful, present and creative body. The author reports her lived experience in which the meditative practice evoked events that go beyond the scenic aspects, providing new...
Journal of Consciousness Studies March 31, 2023 Lyu Zhou
The specious present (James, 1890/1950) is the phenomenal temporal structure of the representational content of my present experience. This article is a study of the mereological structure of the specious present and what it reveals about the nature of the mind. I argue that the specious present has certain features that cannot be easily explained within the framework of physicalism about the...