The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
February 1, 2018
Robin E Cushing, Kathryn L Braun
About one-third of service members returning from post-9/11 deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq report combat-related mental health conditions, but many do not seek conventional treatment. Mind-body therapies have been offered as alternative approaches to decreasing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but no review of studies with veterans of post-9/11 operations was found. The objective of...
Journal of Neuroscience
January 31, 2018
John T. Arsenault, Natalie Caspari, Rik Vandenberghe et al.
A unifying function associated with the default mode network (DMN), which is more active during rest than under active task conditions, has been difficult to define. The DMN is activated during monitoring the external world for unexpected events, as a sentinel, and when humans are engaged in high-level internally focused tasks. The existence of DMN correlates in other species, such as mice,...
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
January 30, 2018
Ann R. Beck, Heidi Verticchio
23 citations
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of a daily mindfulness practice and 2 types of journaling on participants' development of self-compassion. Method: This was a between-groups design. All participants in a graduate counseling course engaged in a short daily mindfulness practice at the beginning of every class. Participants were randomly assigned to a counseling journal...
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
January 29, 2018
Svetlana Racanović
The twelve-year collaborative practice of Marina Abramović and Ulay (Franck Uwe Laysiepen), started with extreme, rapturous and unflinching explorations of capacities of the body in their early performances (a phase they called The Warriors), that corresponded to the fury of the 1970s. In an environment hostile to the living, phenomenological body (in arts, in theoretical discourse) of the...
Current Psychiatry Reports
January 25, 2018
Kelsey T. Laird, Pattharee Paholpak, Michael Roman et al.
A growing body of research supports the use of mind-body therapies (MBTs) as minimally invasive and effective approaches for the management of late-life mood and cognitive disorders. Recent randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses indicate that MBTs are effective for enhancing well-being, mood, sleep, and cognition in older adults. Evidence suggests that mindful movement (e.g., yoga, tai...
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
January 25, 2018
Hugh Rabagliati, Alexander Robertson, David Podhortzer Carmel
62 citations
Is consciousness required for high level cognitive processes, or can the unconscious mind perform tasks that are as complex and difficult as, for example, understanding a sentence? Recent work has argued that, yes, the unconscious mind can: Sklar et al. (2012) found that sentences, masked from consciousness using the technique of continuous flash suppression (CFS), broke into awareness more...
Journal of Visualized Experiments
January 22, 2018
Robert Carter, Kirtigandha Salwe Carter, John Holliday et al.
A pragmatic breath-based intervention to benefit human performance and stress management is timely and valuable to individuals seeking holistic approaches for emotional regulation and optimizing compensatory reserve mechanisms. This protocol is designed to not only teach mind-body awareness but also to provide feedback utilizing physiological data and survey results. The primary findings of...
January 19, 2018
Bernard Andrieu, Olivier Sirost
In Chapter 1 , Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost open this volume by explaining the approach of body ecology to our understanding of new conceptions of leisure. The authors have based their work on philosophies of awakening and consciousness. These immersers into consciousness favour transcendental meditation and reflexivity in action through physical practices of consciousness. Although we...
January 19, 2018
Bernard Andrieu, Olivier Sirost
5 citations
Body ecology is based on philosophies of awakening and consciousness. These immersers into consciousness favour transcendental meditation and reflexivity in action through physical practices of consciousness. Although we might distinguish these techniques, the holistic context of each can cause confusion because the action on one part of the body would immediately be related to that of other...
Oxford Scholarship Online
January 18, 2018
Dan Zahavi
Husserl’s turn from a descriptive phenomenology to a transcendental phenomenology is linked to his methodological employment of the reduction and the epoché. But how should one interpret these notions? Are they crucial to phenomenology, do they enable phenomenology to become metaphysically committed, or are they tools that reveal Husserl’s commitment to a form of methodological solipsism?...