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An experimental approach to training interoceptive sensitivity: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

Nutrition Journal December 19, 2022 Petra Warschburger, Hanna R. Wortmann, Ulrike A. Gisch et al. 4 citations

BACKGROUND: Eating in absence of hunger is quite common and often associated with an increased energy intake co-existent with a poorer food choice. Intuitive eating (IE), i.e., eating in accordance with internal hunger and satiety cues, may protect from overeating. IE, however, requires accurate perception and processing of one's own bodily signals, also referred to as interoceptive...

Effect of Gayatri Mantra on Health: A Narrative Review.

December 16, 2022 Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Dushyant Soni 5 citations preprint

Abstract –Practices of meditation have been beneficial for mankind since ages for maintaining good health and spiritual progress. Research on meditation has picked up pace in recent decades and many scientific studies have reported the beneficial effects of meditation on psycho-physiological and cognitive aspects. This article has reviewed the published empirical literature on Gayatri mantra,...

Telomere dynamics in healthy expert meditators: a case control study

Research Square December 15, 2022 Nirodhi Namika Dasanayaka, Nirmala D. Sirisena, Nilakshi Samaranayake preprint

Abstract Practice of meditation has been suggested to improve telomere regulation. This case-control study compared the leucocyte telomere length (TL) and expression of hTERT and hTR genes, between thirty long-term, skilled meditators and thirty matched non-meditators. 63.34% of the participants were males and the average age of the meditators was 43.83±9.92 years. Meditators had practiced...

T.S. Eliot’s Translation of Religious Mysticism to Literature: Richard of Saint Victor and Saint John of the Cross

International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science December 15, 2022 Rosanna Rion

T.S Eliot read and quoted the great European mystics, among them Richard of Saint Victor and Saint John of the Cross and was influenced by the Biblical prophets. Their works coincide not only in religious believes, but there is a parallelism between Eliot`s linguistic devices and style and religious concepts like the disappearance of the Ego. The expression of the mystical experience through...

Spinoza Etiğinde Upuygun Bir Fikir Olarak “Ahlaki Farkındalık”: Bilinç mi, Vicdan mı?

Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi December 15, 2022 Enes Dağ

Spinoza, conscientia ve conscius kavramları arasında anlamsal herhangi bir ayırım yapmayıp birini diğerinin yerine kullanmıştır. Ancak geleneksel felsefede conscientia kavramı “ahlaki duyarlılık” ya da “farkındalık” anlamına gelen bir “iç ses” ya da “vicdan” olarak kullanılmakta ve hem rasyonel hem de irrasyonel süreçleri ifade etmektedir. Diğer yandan aynı felsefi gelenekte conscius kavramı...

İbn Sînâcı ve Kartezyen İkiciliğe Dair Bir Karşılaştırma

Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi December 15, 2022 Aykut Alper Yılmaz

Günümüzde ruh-beden ikiciliği/düalizmi denilince akla gelen görüş Descartes’ın (öl. 1650) sistematize etmiş olduğu cevher ikiciliğidir. Adından da anlaşılacağı gibi cevher ikiciliği, iki farklı türde cevherin var olduğu imasında bulunur. Benzer şekilde İbn Sînâ (öl. 428/1037) da nefsin maddeden farklı türde bir cevher olduğunu ifade ederek bir tür cevher ikiciliği benimsemişse de onun ikiciliği...

Philosophy of Mind: Introduction

Rudn Journal of Philosophy December 15, 2022 V. Vasilyev 16 citations

The introductory article by V.V. Vasilyev, the guest editor of the thematic section on “Philosophy of Mind”, offers a general vision on the researches of mind and consciousness today, gives a brief overview of the articles presented in the issue, and outlines the horizon for the development of both interdisciplinary and philosophical studies of consciousness.

Novel Perspective of Medicinal Mushroom Cultivations: A Review Case for ‘Magic’ Mushrooms

Agronomy December 15, 2022 Sarana Rose Sommano, Ratchuporn Suksathan, Thanarat Sombat et al. 16 citations

Fruiting bodies, mycelia, or spores in the form of extracts or powder of various medicinal mushrooms are used to prevent, treat, or cure a range of ailments and balance a healthy diet. Medicinal mushrooms are found in several genera of fungi and their fruit bodies, cultured mycelia, and cultured broth contains phytochemical constituents such as triterpenes, lectins, steroids, phenols,...

DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12123185 (opens in new tab) Psilocybin Mushroom Phytochemical Traditional medicine +4

Presleep focusing on positive spontaneous thoughts enhanced the possibility of dreaming of them.

Frontiers in Psychology December 14, 2022 Jiaxi Wang, Bin Song, Xiaoling Feng et al.

Introduction: Dreaming is the subjective experience during sleep. A spontaneous thought is a thought that comes to one's mind involuntarily. This study investigated whether presleep focusing on a positive spontaneous thought enhanced the possibility of dreaming of the thought. Methods: Ninety-seven participants were quasi-randomly assigned to an expression condition (focus on an spontaneous...

The Boundaries of Affectivity (and a Coda on Extended Consciousness)

Perspectiva Filosófica December 12, 2022 G. Piredda

In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”, a small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing at the boundaries between philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science. In the last years, we are witnessing a real “affective turn” in the domain of analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and situated...