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The Oxford Handbook of Meditation February 10, 2021 David Brazier
Abstract This chapter explores the application of Buddhism as psychotherapy. Buddhism is primarily a religion or Dharma that has inspired the arts, social life, architecture, and foundational aspects of the cultures where it has become established. In considering it as psychotherapy, this chapter similarly applies principles and images springing from its religious root. Buddhism is also a...
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports February 8, 2021 Felipe A Jain, Sergey V. Chernyak, Lisa D Nickerson et al.
Background: Family dementia caregivers experience high rates of depression and anxiety that often go untreated due to time demands. We aimed to determine the feasibility of a brief, 4-week Mentalizing Imagery Therapy intervention, which couples mindfulness with guided imagery practices aimed at bolstering mentalizing capacity, to reduce caregiver psychological symptoms and to explore potential...
February 3, 2021 Ricardo Mejía Fernández
espanolEl autor realiza una lectura en clave perspectivista de la neurofenomenologia, enfoque transdisciplinar y metodologico iniciado a mediados de los 90 por el neurobiologo Francisco J. Varela desde el ambito experimental de las ciencias de la mente. La originalidad del articulo reside en que estudia comparativamente el problematico entrecruce de la neurofenomenologia de Varela con el...
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease February 2, 2021 Dharma Singh Khalsa, Andrew B. Newberg 27 citations
BACKGROUND: Religious and spiritual interventions may have an effect on Alzheimer's disease prevention. Kirtan Kriya meditation has been shown to mitigate the deleterious effects of chronic stress on cognition, reverse memory loss, and create psychological and spiritual wellbeing, which may reduce multiple drivers of Alzheimer's disease risk. OBJECTIVE: To detail a new concept in medicine...
PsyCh Journal February 2021 Sebastian L. Kübel, Henrike Fiedler, Marc Wittmann
A Ganzfeld is a homogenized visual and auditory perceptual field which can induce altered states of consciousness (ASC; Metzger, 1929; Schmidt & Prein, 2019). Using a balanced intrasubject design, we compared participants' experience during two differently colored (red, green) 25-min Ganzfeld sessions with brown noise as acoustic stimulation. Participants were exposed to the colored visual...
February 1, 2021 J. To
Creative Arts Educ Ther (2020) 6(2):187–199 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2020/6/5 Ink for Mettā 墨‧映 Abstract “Ink for Mettā” is the integration of Chinese calligraphy and mettā meditation in the practice of expressive arts therapy. Chinese calligraphy is a traditional form of writing with aesthetic appreciation value, and it is one of the Buddhist meditative practices for enhancing self-awareness. Mettā...
Creative Arts in Education and Therapy February 1, 2021 Sarah Y. C. Chu
Creative Arts Educ Ther (2020) 6(2):141–152 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2020/6/4 Expressive Arts as a Way of Making Meaning and Gaining Insight: An Eastern Perspective with the “Mind” 從東方思想探討表達藝術作為尋找意義與洞見的方式 Abstract This article includes two parts. Part I attempts to use one of the Buddhist psychology theories, “five ever-present mental states,” to illustrate how our mind is interconnected and propose...
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences February 1, 2021 Chris Elcock 2 citations
Abstract Little has been written on the financial support behind Timothy Leary's unorthodox research into mind‐altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin and his subsequent psychedelic movement. Indeed several individuals and organizations helped the psychedelic cause by directly funding Leary's ventures, offering legal and logistic assistance, and organizing fund‐raising campaigns. I argue that...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences February 1, 2021 Jarrod Gott, Leonore Bovy, Emma Peters et al. 33 citations
Metacognitive reflections on one's current state of mind are largely absent during dreaming. Lucid dreaming as the exception to this rule is a rare phenomenon; however, its occurrence can be facilitated through cognitive training. A central idea of respective training strategies is to regularly question one's phenomenal experience: is the currently experienced world real, or just a dream? Here,...
Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy January 29, 2021 Karsten J. Struhl
Anand Vaidya, Sean Smith, and Mark Siderits have presented thoughtful comments and provocative challenges to my article “What Kind of an Illusion is the Illusion of Self?” Their challenges raise significant questions about the nature of illusion, whether Buddhism is denying the self in all senses of the term, whether there could be a self that exists for some limited duration of time and has at...