Middle West review
2018
Bill R. Douglas
Reviewed by: Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa by Joseph Weber Bill R. Douglas Joseph Weber, Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014. 221 pp. $18.00. When I volunteered to review books on religion and the Midwest for this journal, little did I...
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences
2018
Kheirollah Sadeghi, Aliakbar Foroughi, Meysam Bazani et al.
2 citations
Introduction: Growing evidence shows that mindfulness based on self-help interventions have advantages for physical and psychological health in different populations. The mindfulness based emotional balance is a new program and efficacy of which has not been investigated in self-help format. Methods: This study was a randomized control trial (RCT) with wait-list control. After screening and...
PLoS One
2018
Bruce P. Barrett, Mary S Hayney, Daniel Müller et al.
Practice of meditation or exercise may enhance health to protect against acute infectious illness. To assess preventive effects of meditation and exercise on acute respiratory infection (ARI) illness. Randomized controlled prevention trial with three parallel groups. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Community-recruited adults who did not regularly exercise or meditate. 1) 8-week behavioral training in...
University of Vienna
2018
T Krause
2 citations
Vergleiche zwischen Meditation und Psychedelika wurden oft gezogen. Unter bestimmten Umständen können beide selbst-transzendente Erlebnisse (STE) auslösen. STE sind definiert als verbindende und auflösende Phänomene, die die herkömmliche Unterscheidung zwischen Selbst und Andere aufheben und zu einem nichtdualen Gewahrsein führen können. Diese Metaanalyse der Seed-basierten-d-Kartierungen mit...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2018
David Zarka, Carlos Cevallos, Hugo Cordier et al.
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Lancaster EPrints
2018
Kiel S. Long
This thesis questions how Mindfulness and Mindlessness might be understood, measured and invoked in relation to Human-Computer Interactions. Current designs of user interfaces often follow a design trend, drawing upon familiar layout and icons across a broad range of applications. Designers often try to make the interface easier to understand, familiar, and more intuitive. While the use of...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
Edilene De Souza Leite, Alfredo Pereira
1 citation
We review the variety of meditation practices and discuss the non-dual view of the mind and the body, proposing the concept of a Feeling Self, which is empty of essence and constituted by the dynamics of experience. This concept is consistent with the principles advanced by Nagarjuna in the Buddist Mahayana tradition and the interdisciplinary ontology of Triple-Aspect Monism. The principles of...
Annals of Palliative Medicine
January 2018
Siddharth Agarwal, Vijai Kumar, Sapna Agarwal et al.
Human body is a biological, open system and maintains itself in the changing environment. Disease state is cured by many medicinal systems for healing. Esoteric healing (through introspective hypnosis, meditation and spiritual intercession) is the system where its believers regard Supreme Being as Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient. Such persons take ill health as a boon and pray through...
Journal of community health nursing
2018
Jingxuan Zhou, Ping Peng, Xiaohua Xie
This study aimed to screen the prevalence of pain in Chinese community-dwelling older adults and to evaluate the effects of a brief mindfulness-based intervention on chronic pain. The prevalence of pain among Chinese older adults was 40.5%. The brief mindfulness intervention had significant effects on reducing pain intensity (P = 0.004), and increasing the mindfulness measures: observing,...
International Journal of MS Care
2018
Angela Senders, Alena Borgatti, Douglas A Hanes et al.
Chronic pain is a common symptom in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and often requires a multimodal approach to care. The practice of mindfulness has been shown to decrease the experience of pain in other conditions, yet little is known about the relationship between mindfulness and pain in people with MS. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between pain interference...