scholarly journals Dimensions of the ‘Body’ in Tranquility Meditation

Mindfulness ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Somatic Experiences

AbstractA perusal of selected forms of early Buddhist tranquility meditation brings to light the complexity of the roles assumed by the Indic term kāya, usually translated as “body,” which corresponds to the domain of the first establishment of mindfulness. The present exploration of such complexity, which proceeds in critical dialogue with positions taken by Eviatar Shulman, covers the significance of the supernormal feat of conjuring up a mind-made body, the mindful contemplation of the somatic dimensions of absorption attainment, and the transition from these to the immaterial spheres. The patterns of early Buddhist thought that emerge in this way make it preferable to understand the compass of the term kāya to cover a continuum of somatic experiences that can range from gross materiality to more subtle types of embodiments. Even immaterial experiences, based on the complete transcendence of materiality, can still be conceptualized with the help of the term kāya in a phrase that serves to convey direct and personal experience.

Literature review : Pengaruh Teknik Relaksasi Otot Progresif Untuk Mengurangi Nyeri Pada Pasien Gastritis

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 737-743
Author(s):  
Marita Purwaningsih ◽  
Nuniek Nizmah Fajriyah ◽  
Firman Faradisi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Complementary Therapy ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
The Body ◽  
Progressive Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Relaxation Techniques ◽  
The Individual

AbstractGastritis is inflammation of the gastric mucosa which can last for six months or more and can cause recurrence. Gastritis is characterized by signs and symptoms, namely pain in the gut or epigacentrum, vomiting, nausea and vomiting. Pain is a personal experience that is described by the individual himself with several factors such as psychological that can control the pain. Pain can be treated with pharmacological and non-pharmacological techniques. An example of a non-pharmacological technique is the progressive muscle relaxation technique. Progressive muscle relaxation is a technique for reducing pain by moving the body so that it relaxes tight muscles. The purpose of this scientific paper is to describe the effect of progressive muscle relaxation techniques to reduce pain in gastritis patients. The method used in this scientific paper is Literature review by searching for journals with the title the effect of progressive muscle relaxation techniques to reduce pain in gastritis patients. The results obtained after progressive muscle relaxation measures are reduced or lost pain in gastritis patients. The conclusion of this scientific paper is that progressive muscle relaxation techniques can reduce pain in gastritis patients. Suggestions for nurses are expected to be able to apply complementary therapy to gastritis patients who experience pain with progressive muscle relaxation techniques.Keywords:Gastritis, Pain, Progressive Muscle Relaxation Techniques AbstrakGastritis adalah mukosa lambung mengalami peradangan yang dapat berangsung lama selama enam bulan atau lebih dan dapat menimbulkan kekambuhan. Gastritis ditandai dengan tanda dan gejalanya yaitu nyeri pada ulu hati atau epigasentrum, begah, mual dan muntah. Nyeri merupakan pengalaman pribadi yang digambarkan oleh individu itu sendiri dengan beberapa faktor seperti psikologis yang dapat mengontrol nyeri tersebut. Nyeri dapat ditangani dengan teknik farmakologi dan non farmakologi. Contoh teknik non farmakologi adalah teknik relaksasi otot progresif. Relaksasi otot progresif adalah teknik untuk menurunkan nyeri dengan melakukan gerakan gerakan tubuh sehingga meriekskan otot otot yang kaku. Tujuan karya tulis ilmiah ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran pengaruh teknik relaksasi otot progresif untuk menurunkan nyeri pada pasien gastritis. Metode yang digunakan dalam karya tulis ilmiah ini adalah literature riview dengan mencari jurnal dengan judul pengaruh teknik relaksasi otot progresif untuk menurunkan nyeri pada pasien gastritis. Hasil yang didapatkan setelah dilakukan tindakan relaksasi otot progresif adalah berkurang atau hilang rasa nyeri pada pasien gastritis. Kesimpulan karya tulis ilmiah ini adalah teknik relaksasi otot progresif dapat menurunkan nyeri pada pada pasien gastritis. Saran bagi perawat diharapkan dapat menerapkan terapi komplementer terhadap pasien gastritis yang mengalami nyeri dengan teknik relaksasi otot progresif. Kata kunci:Gastritis, Nyeri, Relaksasi otot progrsif

scholarly journals Primary Amyloidosis of the Genitourinary Tract

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaleel I. Al-Obaidy ◽  
David J. Grignon
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
The Body ◽  
Genitourinary Tract ◽  
Primary Amyloidosis ◽  
Urogenital System ◽  
Organ Function ◽  
Pathologic Findings ◽  
Neoplastic Process

Context.— Amyloidosis is caused by the deposition of misfolded proteins as insoluble eosinophilic material in the extracellular tissues of the body, leading to impairment of organ function. It can be systemic or localized. Localized genitourinary tract amyloidosis is rare and can be incidentally seen; however, in some cases, it can be the only presenting disease. Objective.— To review the clinical presentation and pathologic findings related to primary amyloidosis of the urogenital system and highlight some of the associated pathologic findings based on our personal experience. Data Sources.— Published peer-reviewed literature and personal experience of the senior author. Conclusions.— Primary localized amyloidosis within the urogenital tract can present as a neoplastic process and may be clinically and radiologically considered as a mass. Awareness of primary amyloidosis by pathologists and clinicians is required for accurate diagnosis and proper patient management.

scholarly journals Speculating Ancestor(ie)s: The Cavernous Memory of White Innocence and Fluid Embodiments of Afrofuturist Memory-Work

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Javier Ernesto Perez
Keyword(s):  
Racial Violence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
White Innocence

Enduring legacies of racial violence signal the need to reconcile with the past. This paper comparatively explores various speculative works that either reinforce a paradigm of White innocence that serves to deny such legacies or center critical dialogue between the past and present. It draws on a range of theoretical works, including Seshadri-Crooks’s (2000) Lacanian analysis of race, Taylor’s (2003) notion of the body as repertoire for embodied knowledge, Wright’s (2015) concept of Black epiphenomenal time, and Hartman’s (2008b) method of ‘critical fabulation.’ Through an analysis of the narrative tropes of caves and mirrors in the Star Wars Skywalker saga (1977–1983; 2015–2019), this paper firstly unpacks the bounded individualism that permits protagonists Luke and Rey Skywalker to refute their evil Sith lord ancestry and prevail as heroes. It then turns to the works Black Panther (2018) and Watchmen (2019) to comparatively examine Afrofuturist narrative strategies of collectivity, embodiment, and non-linear temporality that destabilize bounded notions of self and time to reckon with the complexities of the past. It concludes that speculative approaches to ancestral (dis)connections are indicative of epistemological frameworks that can either circumvent or forefront ongoing demands to grapple with the past.

GRAPHIC DESIGN IN CLOTHING FABRIC AS A PART OF AN IMAGE DESIGN

2016 ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Agate Ignatovica ◽  
Diana Apele
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Optical Illusions ◽  
Scientific Database ◽  
Personal Reference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Psychological Mood ◽  
Individual Style

The aim of the article is to explore the psychological effects that clothing fabric patterns leave on personal image, as well as to understand graphical forms with whom we can help to create the body optical illusions. Research methods: Theoretical – the appropriate literature, scientific database and internet source research. Lecture visits of professional image designers and stylists, interviews and personal experience in this sphere.Conclusion: Any type of textile print will leave an effect and create associations. Form and colours create the textile print. By choosing the right type of print, the wearer can create a certain psychological mood, as well as optically correct the parts of the body. When choosing a textile print, several factors must be taken in notice – body type, silhouette type, colours of the season, age, social status, individual style etc. If faced with contradictory information about the style, priority should be given to own personal reference, because that will create a harmonious essence as well as create a psychological comfort to the wearer. 

Physical culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Юлия Филиппова ◽  
Yuliya Filippova
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Sports Activities

Educational manual is devoted to the organization of physical education with students of part-time Department. The manual provides brief information on human anatomy, physiology, theory and methodology of physical education, provides material for independent practical work aimed at mastering the methods and means of physical culture and sports activities and self-control, for the acquisition of personal experience in the use of physical culture and sports, the formation of professional and life skills. Physical culture is the key to active professional activity. It is the result of education and training in relation to a person's health, physical abilities and abilities, in the way of life and the construction of the necessary socio-cultural comfortable environment. Within the framework of classical University education, physical culture and sports are activities aimed at achieving personal maturity. The Olympic Charter says: "Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a harmonious whole dignity of the body, will and mind." The student after mastering the program of this discipline in accordance with the GEF VPO should: know: the basics of physical culture and a healthy lifestyle; be able to: apply methods and means of knowledge, learning and self-control to maintain their health, moral and physical self-improvement; methodically it is correct to use means and methods of physical education, health promotion for achievement of the due level of physical readiness providing full-fledged social and professional activity. Own: a system of practical skills that ensure the preservation and strengthening of health, development and improvement of psychophysical abilities and qualities (with the implementation of the established standards for General physical and sports and technical training); personal experience in the use of physical and sports activities to improve their functional and motor capabilities, to achieve personal life and professional goals. It is important to distinguish between sports activities that are built around officially organized competitive interactions of individuals and physical activity, which is based on the deliberate use of physical exercise (physical activity) to achieve certain goals (health promotion, recreation, rehabilitation, etc.) and which is also often organized in the form of competitions. Mastering this subject should change and make people's lives better.

scholarly journals The Body Perfect: On Disability, Experience and the Aesthetics of Expertise.

Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Julia Sauma
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Opening Up

This is a provocation. It does not aim for a seamless narrative. The erudition and argument that create narrative smoothness are identified, here, as indexes of the aesthetic values that define Brazilian and British academic training, values that I would like to unpack. Specifically, the suppression of those experiences perceived as less than perfect is what concerns me. Through my experiences as a Deaf anthropologist, I reflect on the relation between aesthetic values, a powerful need to maintain “the body perfect” and, consequently, labour separate from personal experience in Brazilian and British universities. By reflecting on how “the body perfect” emerges through a protection of whiteness, I also hope to begin to explore the relation between racism and ableism that infuses academic aesthetics of expertise. In doing so, my provocation contributes to opening up spaces where reimagining diversity can actually take place in the academy.

scholarly journals Body, Self and Others: Harding, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Brentyn J. Ramm
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Phenomenology Of The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Look ◽  
Body Self

Douglas Harding developed a unique first-person experimental approach for investigating consciousness that is still relatively unknown in academia. In this paper, I present a critical dialogue between Harding, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on the phenomenology of the body and intersubjectivity. Like Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, Harding observes that from the first-person perspective, I cannot see my own head. He points out that visually speaking nothing gets in the way of others. I am radically open to others and the world. Neither does my somatic experience establish a boundary between me and the world. Rather to experience these sensations as part of a bounded, shaped thing (a body), already involves bringing in the perspectives of others. The reader is guided through a series of Harding’s first-person experiments to test these phenomenological claims for themselves. For Sartre, the other’s subjectivity is known through The Look, which makes me into a mere object for them. Merleau-Ponty criticised Sartre for making intersubjective relations primarily ones of conflict. Rather he held that the intentionality of my body is primordially interconnected with that of others’ bodies. We are already situated in a shared social world. For Harding, like Sartre, my consciousness is a form of nothingness; however, in contrast to Sartre, it does not negate the world, but is absolutely united with it. Confrontation is a delusion that comes from imagining that I am behind a face. Rather in lived personal relationships, I become the other. I conclude by arguing that for Harding all self-awareness is a form of other-awareness, and vice versa.

scholarly journals Keeping Sense Open: Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Rahner, and Bodies

Horizons ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Joseph Fritz
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Well Posed

This article introduces the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy to theologians by placing him in critical dialogue with Karl Rahner. It examines how Nancy's deconstruction of Christianity accuses Western reason, including Christianity, of forgetting the body and supporting an ethos of disembodiment. Nancy proposes a new opening of reason (déclosion, “dis-closure”) and a corresponding praxis (“adoration”). This reason and praxis involve an exit from Christianity. Rahnerian essays on matter, spirit, and sacramentality demonstrate that while Christianity has, historically, fallen prey to the pathologies Nancy identifies, it also has thought in terms of something like dis-closed reason and has practiced something like “adoration.” While Nancy's insistence on the need for an exit from Christianity is not necessarily well posed, his deconstruction of Christianity can help Christian theologians as they develop thinking that supports an ethos sensitive to the body—or that keeps the body's sense open.

The Feeling of Mindfulness in Meditation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Cassaniti
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
Goenka’S Vipassana ◽  
Over Time

This chapter investigates some of the main meditative techniques practiced in Thailand, as well as what it feels like to practice them and improve over time. It begins with an ethnographic encounter with a man who has just spent a month in meditation at Wat Rampoeng in Chiang Mai, and then follows the author’s personal experience at five different meditation retreats to learn about mindfulness in meditation. These meditative retreats include the training in mindfulness of sensations and saṅkhāras at S.N. Goenka’s vipassana-based courses in India and Phitsanulok, the mindfulness of breathing (ānāpānasati) at Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu’s monastery of Wat Suan Mokkh in Southern Thailand, and the mindfulness of walking (yup naw phong naw) at the rural cave monastery of Wat Tham Thong near Chiang Mai. Together these close descriptive examples of the phenomenological experience of meditation show how mindfulness is trained in the body and mind in Thailand.

scholarly journals Transitar: cuerpo y resistencia. Una mirada micropolítica a la experiencia trans

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-209
Author(s):  
Jhon Fernando Jaramillo Taborda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ways Of Being

The expression “There is nothing more political than the tits of a transgender” shows a politicization of the body; an act of rebellion and resistance that oversteps the traditionally established social order. This exercise is guided by the life story of a transfeminist, Ana Lu Laferal, and an indigenous trans woman, Geraldín, who based on their personal experience will help us understand the following: What happens when individuals distance themselves from the heterosexual hegemonic ideal of the body that has been defined by certain biological characteristics? Is the body a tool of political agency for transgender people? All this seeks to understand how trans people configure subjectivity and the capacity of political agency —from the empowerment of their body and the use of this tool— as a first scenario of resistance. One of the strategies deployed to show the trans experience is the use of a comprehensive language, which becomes a tool to acknowledge other ways of being and defend the right to self-recognition. In short, this work studies other political forms that are constituted from otherness, subjectivity, and individuality, in which the body is used as a means and an end.

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