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Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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Mindfulness training in healthcare professions: A scoping review of systematic reviews
Medical Education, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 671-686, June 2024.Abstract Purpose The effectiveness of mindfulness training (MT) on mental health and wellbeing in different groups and contexts is well‐established. However, the effect of MT on different healthcare professionals' (HCPs) mental health and wellbeing needs to be synthesised, along with a focus on outcomes that are specifically relevant to healthcare ...
Nabeela Kajee +5 more
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MENTAL FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF THE LOVING HEART: FREE WILL AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Zygon, 2020 In Buddhism, Meditation and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom, Rick Repetti explains how the dynamics of Buddhist meditation can result in a kind of metacognition and metavolitional control that exceeds what is required for free will and defeats the
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Molecules of Silence: Effects of Meditation on Gene Expression and Epigenetics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Many studies have consistently demonstrated an epigenetic link between environmental stimuli and physiological as well as cognitive responses. Epigenetic mechanisms represent a way to regulate gene activity in real time without modifying the DNA sequence,
Sabrina Venditti +5 more
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Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 61-76, April 2024.Abstract Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works as a mechanism of persuasion in Thailand, where Buddhist logics of meditation permeate social life.
Julia Cassaniti
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Yoga and mental health: Applying yoga philosophy for well-being [PDF]
, 2019 Indian Philosophy is a term that refers to schools of philosophical thought that originated in the Indian subcontinent. Over the ages there has been continuity in enlarge this filed of philosophical enquiry, which as lead to a wide range of scriptures ...
Sirswal, Desh Raj
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2024.Abstract The Christian confession of who Jesus is must be made in the contested space of conflicting accounts of history. This article compares the shape of universal history set out by Yuval Noah Harari with that of Wolfhart Pannenberg by sketching their accounts of human beginnings, the middle of history, and their view to the future.
E. J. David Kramer
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Neural Plasticity, 2018 It has been suggested that the practice of meditation is associated to neuroplasticity phenomena, reducing age-related brain degeneration and improving cognitive functions. Neuroimaging studies have shown that the brain connectivity changes in meditators.
Anna Lardone +12 more
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A systematic review of the neurophysiology of mindfulness on EEG oscillations [PDF]
, 2015 Mindfulness meditation has been purported as a beneficial practice for wellbeing. It would be expected that the neurophysiology of mindfulness would reflect this impact on wellbeing.
Lomas, Tim +2 more
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As variedades da experiência antropocénica: crise climática, subjetividade e ontologia
e-cadernos cesThis article offers a provisional mapping of some of the affective impacts of the Anthropocene, a geological epoch proposed to illustrate the couplings of human agency and planetary phenomena.
António Carvalho
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