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SSRN Electronic Journal 2018 Kitti Kittisaro preprint
Not having greed, hatred and delusion is living a life with the real happiness. Unwholesome or greed, hatred and delusion, destroys the happiness in life. To relieve the unwholesome roots is significant. Those who cannot relieve the unwholesome roots have to live stressful and sorrowful, and cannot find the find the way to meet the bright side of life. The practitioners in Satipatthana...
Journal of special operations medicine : a peer reviewed journal for SOF medical professionals 2018 Danielle Worthington, Patricia A Deuster
Spirituality is a key interweaving and interacting domain, and an integral component for maintaining Special Operations Forces readiness; however, it remains an under-researched and likely one of the most poorly understood domains of Preservation of the Force and Family and Total Force Fitness initiatives. Although there are numerous factors that contribute to spiritual performance or spiritual...
Frontiers in Psychiatry 2018 Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge, Vernon A Barnes
Sleep is a quiescent behavioral state during which complex homeostatic functions essential to health and well-being occur. Insomnia is a very common psychiatric disorder leading to a myriad of detrimental effects including loss of concentration, memory, and performance as well as disease. Current pharmaceutical treatments can be expensive, impairing, unhealthy, and habit-forming. Relaxation...
2018 Joseph E. Goodrich
The present study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and physical and academic performance in Marine Corps recruits and active Marines. Using emotional intelligence theory (Mayer, Caruso, & Salovey 1999; Mayer Salovey & Caruso, 2004) and the mindfulness in sport (MIS) construct (Gardner & Moore, 2004; Thienot, et al., 2014); this study assessed the predictive...
Animal Sentience 2018 Ila France Porcher 3 citations
The systematic criticism of articles providing evidence that fish and invertebrates can feel pain is discussed. Beliefs are known to be stronger than evidence in the human mind, and could generate this outcry, while from another perspective, the criticisms appear as a territorial move by fishermen against a perceived threat to their domain. The scientific inconsistency in which consciousness is...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Rikke Duus, Mike Cooray, Nadine C Page
In an increasingly technology-textured environment, smart, intelligent and responsive technology has moved onto the body of many individuals. Mobile phones, smart watches, and wearable activity trackers (WATs) are just some of the technologies that are guiding, nudging, monitoring, and reminding individuals in their day-to-day lives. These devices are designed to enhance and support their human...
Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica 2018 Hans Contreras-Pulache, Eduardo Espinoza-Lecca, Javier Sevillano-Jimenez
The Informational Sociobiological Theory proposes a radically-different definition of living systems and, therefore, is the only existing neurological theory that evades the mind-brain problem and explains the nature of human consciousness. It was developed by Pedro Ortiz Cabanillas between 1984 and 2011. In this document we are presenting a listing of his main works. We include, additionally,...
Advances in human and social aspects of technology book series 2018
This chapter addresses the issue of a stroke's impact on consciousness and the self, from a clinical point of view. We look at how the mind is seen by three experts—a neuroscientist, a brain surgeon, and a neuro-philosopher—and find that, instead of solving the mystery of the mind, they in fact add to it. Indeed, they all agree on the lingering mystery of consciousness, underneath and beyond...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 2018 David I. Dubrovsky 1 citation
The global crisis of terrestrial civilization is steadily increasing. A necessary condition for overcoming it is the change in mass consciousness, such negative qualities as irrepressible consumerism, aggressiveness, excessive egoism. As the Dalai Lama emphasizes: “We badly need a fundamental change in human consciousness”. According to him, science is of great importance in solving this...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição 2018 Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal 1 citation
During meditation, consciousness/awareness is usually enhanced because of higher attention and concentration, which inter-dependently co-arise thru appropriate interactions between neural signals. Nāgārjuna rejects ‘inherent existence’ or ‘essence’ in favor of co-dependent origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), and that is also why he rejects causality; the entities that lack inherent existence...