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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Frontiers in PsychologyObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the impact of yoga meditation on the mental health of female college students, focusing on how meditation improves emotional regulation, alleviates stress and strengthens psychological resilience.MethodsEmploying a
Lanjuan Liu +4 more
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CureusObjective: The empirical evidence explicitly demonstrates that meditation practice enhances both brain functions and mental well-being. A meditative relaxation approach called the mind sound resonance technique (MSRT) has shown promising effects on ...
S. Mohanty +5 more
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Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
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Your brain on art, nature, and meditation: a pilot neuroimaging study
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceObjectivesExposure to art, nature, or meditation, all transcending human experiences, has beneficial effects on health and wellbeing. Focusing inward or watching art and nature videos elicits positive emotions that can help heal stress-related conditions.
Beatrix Krause-Sorio +5 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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«Différant des Autres», Espacements et Temporalités Spectrales
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT That night that he agreed to our suggestion that we accompany him outside, for the whole night or until the overflow has passed, M seemed to be in direct contact with all the layers of astronomy, inhabiting all temporalities simultaneously. Outside, lying/sitting on the picnic table, in the pitch‐black darkness of the night in the woods, under
Amélie‐Anne Mailhot
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Intrinsic neural timescales exhibit different lengths in distinct meditation techniques
NeuroImageMeditation encompasses a range of practices employing diverse induction techniques, each characterized by a distinct attentional focus. In Mantra meditation, for instance, practitioners direct their attention narrowly to a given sentence that is ...
Bianca Ventura +5 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic disproportionately affected international migrants worldwide. However, not all international migrants were uniformly impacted. While much of the literature has focused on the pandemic's effects on migrants relative to citizens, the impacts faced by different groups of migrants remain less understood.
Ramesh Sunam +3 more
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NeuroImageUsing a combination of fMRI, EEG, and phenomenology ratings, we examined the neurophenomenology of advanced concentrative absorption meditation, namely jhanas (ACAM-J), in a practitioner with over 23,000 h of meditation practice.
Avijit Chowdhury +7 more
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