International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2010
R. Ramadoss, Bidyut Bose
39 citations
Two pilot studies demonstrate that a comprehensive multimodality intervention of Transformative Life Skills (TLS) consisting of Yoga poses (asana), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation (dhyana) can reduce perceived stress and increase self-control and self-awareness in at-risk and incarcerated youth. As part of a countywide violence prevention effort, Niroga Institute conducted...
2010
Ayako Nozawa
In this chapter the pre-natal period is considered the beginning of soul education. It offers two birth stories from two perspectives: that of the son and that of the mother. The son’s account alerts us to open up more to appreciate early and before-birth experiences: to see the other side of the world. Introducing her own pregnancy/birth experiences with poems and drawing on her yoga teacher...
Journal of Transformative Education
2010
Vaishali Mamgain
13 citations
Some members of the academic community have turned their attention to the use of contemplative pedagogy and find it is a powerful approach that benefits students not only in their education but also in their lives. In traditions such as Buddhism, contemplation has been used as a basis for the development of ethical consciousness and this article suggests that the academic community ought to...
2010
Peter Friedlander
2 citations
This chapter presents some understandings of the body from ancient India and considers their influence on different cultures today. It concentrates on examining early Indian notions of the body and lightly touches on modern understandings of some points in some other cultures. Buddhism is famous for its emphasis on the importance of meditation as a means of investigating the nature of ultimate...
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Annual Review
2010
Chris Francovich
3 citations
Insights into the nondual relationship of organism and environment and their processual nature have resulted in numerous efforts at understanding human behavior and motivation from a holistic and contextual perspective. Meadian social theory, cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), ecological psychology, and some interpretations of complexity theory persist in relating human activity to the...
European Journal of East Asian Studies
2010
Florence Galmiche
6 citations
Abstract In South Korea, the distance between Buddhist monastics and lay devotees tends to reduce as monasteries and temples multiply in urban areas. Even the remote mountain monasteries have broadened their access to lay visitors. Nowadays monastic and lay Buddhists have more occasions to meet than before and the current intensification of their relationships brings important redefinitions of...
2010
E. H. Strauch
Humankind evolved through three psychological stages - subconscience, conscience, and supraconscience. Ritual and myth, cosmology and theism marked phases of psychic integration, initiating our supraconscience evolution. Four archetypes: temperance, 'the great chain of being,' Biblical interpretation, and Divinity became the Cosmic consciousness of secular man. Study of Scripture developed a...
Clínica y Salud
2010
Pérez-Álvarez Marino, M. García-Montes José, Sass Louis
19 citations
This study describes the contributions that phenomenology can make to our understanding of schizophrenia. It begins by showing that phenomenology is recovering the psychopathological tradition lost after the success of the DSM-III and the establishment of neurobiology as the dominant approach. Its contributions are described in three parts: its conceptualization, evaluation and treatment of...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Michael Schredl
3 citations
Varying research perspectives of the conceptual distinction between physiology and subjective experience, and the outside vs. inside perspective on dreaming will be discussed. Whereas the AIM model is helpful in describing the neurobiological differences between states of consciousness, research is needed to test whether specific features of the subjective experience like bizarreness or...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Don Kuiken
2 citations
Hobson (2009) proposes that lucid dreaming can become simultaneously and separately manifest against a background of non-lucid dreaming. The study of such state conjunctions, he suggests, sets the stage for a revolution in the neuroscience of consciousness. However, while lucid dreaming may indeed represent the emergence of what Edelman (2004) calls secondary consciousness amidst the primary...