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May 20, 2018 Kevin Page
Chapter 8 introduces mantra meditation which moves the object of focused attention away from bodily sensations or the breath to a repeated word or phrase. We discuss briefly the origins and history of mantra practice and introduce the idea that mantra work can be done outside of the formal meditation setting, thus expanding the options for consciousness training into other venues beyond the...
May 20, 2018 Kevin Neil Page
Chapter 4 introduces the field of consciousness studies and training, which includes exercising the attention function with such practices as meditation (concentration on a single object) and mindfulness (attention paid to the whole field of awareness). We then apply the concept of training the attention function to actor training as described in earlier chapters and look at how this activity...
Journal of MCU Peace Studies May 19, 2018 Jongluck Phuakphewvong
This research is of 2 objectives: 1) to study the daily-life living of the meditationpractitioners at Kubon temple. 2) to study the application of mindfulness in daily-life livingof the meditation practitioners at Kubon temple. It is a field-work qualitative research bythe tools of a documentary study, and the in-depth interview from key informants,together with a participatory observation....
Libraries and Cultural Resources May 18, 2018 Brenda Elizabeth Mansfield 2 citations
This research is an attempt to expand the topic of “heart in pedagogy” by exploring how the cultivation of positive emotional states may affect the pedagogical relationality between teacher and student and, ultimately, classroom climate. After all, “we never educate directly, but indirectly through means of the environment” (Dewey, 1944, p. 19). A heartfulness approach in education complements...
Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences May 18, 2018 Prakash B Behere, Siddharth Kalucha
Quantum mechanics and godel′s theorem are purely work and concept of physics. When applied to see how ways in which mind works is fascinating, at the same time at a very hypothetical level. Orch or model of consciousness explores neurological basis of consciousness and insight in psychiatric patients as well as in normal patients is also explained. Though many of these are proven concepts in...
Edinburgh University Press eBooks May 16, 2018 Karin Kukkonen 1 citation
complements to the current philosophical account arising from earlier work on the relation between mind and matter in the work of Jacques Lacan, from a transmedial perspective with examples from novels and graphic narrative.In the course of our argument, the possibilities and limitations of the extended-mind approach in informing narrative theory are explored and, in turn, the scope of the...
May 16, 2018 Brandon Rickabaugh
Introduction Materialism permeates philosophy of mind. Yet, increasing difficulties are triggering dissent. William Hasker’s insightful yet underappreciated work in the philosophy of mind is representative. Hasker does not favor the recent turn toward non-reductive physicalism either. Rather, his argument from the unity of consciousness entails SUBSTANCE DUALISM. Additionally, Hasker maintains...
Routledge eBooks May 15, 2018 Merle Molofsky
To read Michael Eigen&s;s work, to participate in his seminars, and to experience him as a human being, is to become aware of all that psychoanalysis can be for each of us—the possibility of a psychoanalysis as big as the world. His level of comfort with fragmentation, whether the fragmentation of Lurianic Kaballah, psychotic states, or the everyday expansions and contractions of self, invites...
Neuroimage May 15, 2018 Otto Muzik, Kaice T Reilly, Vaibhav A. Diwadkar
The defense of body temperature against environmental thermal challenges is a core objective of homeostatic regulation governed by the autonomic nervous system. Autonomous mechanisms of thermoregulation are only weakly affected by top-down modulation, allowing only transient tolerance for extreme cold. There is however, anecdotal evidence of a unique set of individuals known for extreme cold...
COJ Nursing & Healthcare May 14, 2018 Anne M. Devney
A. Review use of mindfulness as a stress reduction technique. B. Review rapid anxiety reduction techniques that faculty members can use. C. Review those strategies. In addition to selection of stress reduction techniques, the nurse and nurse educator might consider how use of these elements may help foster improved critical thinking. The National League for Nursing’s Guide for Teaching Thinking...