Religions
January 29, 2023
Federico Divino
13 citations
By examining the Sutta Nipāta, considered one of the collections containing the oldest texts of the Pāli canon, this study aims to reconstruct social, historical, and anthropological aspects of archaic Buddhist doctrine at the time of its definition in dialectic with the forces of orthodoxy and constituted power in 6th century BCE India. This study also provides important insights into the...
Mindfulness
January 28, 2023
Veronika Engert, Katja Hoehne, Tania Singer
Objectives Psychosocial stress is an inherent part of modern lifestyle, and many suffer from chronic stress exposure and the subsequent development of stress-related diseases. In searching for efficient low-cost interventions to reduce stress, we investigated the effects of regular contemplative mental practice on diurnal cortisol activity as an indicator of the basal, everyday stress load....
Journal of Consumer Affairs
January 26, 2023
Shalini Bahl, George R. Milne, Kunal Swani
10 citations
Abstract Mindsets brought to the marketplace by consumers determine the decisions they make and, ultimately, their well‐being. Mindsets based on a comprehensive set of mindfulness skills can provide a broader lens to understanding life's varied situations to make better choices. Considering research on mindfulness and Buddhist psychology, this study introduced an expanded mindful mindset...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
January 24, 2023
Eric Bond
A paradigm in neuroscience is developing which views resonance as the phenomenon responsible for consciousness. Much progress is being made in the investigation of how resonance as oscillating flows within the brain’s electric field might result in production of mind from matter. But it’s mostly unknown how vibrations among features of matter such as nanoscale atomic structures and photonic...
Психиатрия психотерапия и клиническая психология
January 23, 2023
Б. Стрнаделова, Ю. Халамова, М. Воронкина
1 citation
Тренинг по развитию сострадания (ССТ) – это метод обучения, направленный на развитие сострадания, включающий различные медитативные практики и упражнения, улучшающие психическое и эмоциональное благополучие, сочувствие и доброту по отношению к другим и к себе. Цель исследования состояла в том, чтобы проанализировать влияние сокращенного онлайн-обучения «Тренинг по развитию сострадания» на...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
January 20, 2023
Аnastasia Levchenko, Fedor E. Gusev, Evgeny Ivanovich Rogaev
9 citations
Imagination, the driving force of creativity, and primary psychosis are human-specific, since we do not observe behaviors in other species that would convincingly suggest they possess the same traits. Both these traits have been linked to the function of the prefrontal cortex, which is the most evolutionarily novel region of the human brain. A number of evolutionarily novel genetic and...
NaUKMA Research Papers in Philosophy and Religious Studies
January 20, 2023
Taras Lyuty
The main purpose of this article is to establish links between the teachings of Hryhorii Skovoroda and the leading trends in Western philosophy of his time. Since the anticipated influences, similarities and parallels are mostly implicit, the main purpose of the study is to identify common motives for thinking, rather than direct dependence. Nevertheless, the biggest difficulty of this analysis...
January 19, 2023
Uriah Kriegel
7 citations
Abstract A widespread assumption in current philosophy of mind is that a conscious state’s phenomenal properties vary with its representational contents. In this chapter, I present an alternative picture that admits two kinds of phenomenal properties that do not vary with content. First, there are phenomenal properties that vary rather with attitude. Secondly, there is a kind of phenomenal...
Journal of Health Research
January 18, 2023
LiJuan Yang, Rajitha Menon
2 citations
Background: There are limited studies examining the effectiveness of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) on dispositional flow enhancement in the recreational population. This is the first empirical evaluation of an online 4-week MSPE designed to enhance dispositional flow in Chinese recreational runners. Method: In this mixed-method study, a convergent design approach was adopted to...
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
January 16, 2023
Yunus A Çengel
The term information is used in different meanings in different fields of study and daily life, causing misunderstanding and confusion. There is a need to clarify what information is and how it relates to knowledge. It is argued that information is meaning represented by physical symbols such as sights, sounds, and words. Knowledge is meaning that resides in a conscious mind. The basic building...