The Guiding Thread of Inner Experience

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2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Heavey ◽  
Todd Seibert ◽  
Jedidiah Gunter
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1981 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Huba ◽  
Carol S. Aneshensel ◽  
Jerome L. Singer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Radakovic ◽  
Ratko Radakovic ◽  
Guy Peryer ◽  
Jo-Anne Geere

Rationale: The benefits of mindfulness are well documented and it has become widely used in both clinical and general populations. The benefits of classic serotonergic psychedelics (e.g. psilocybin, LSD, DMT, ayahuasca) are becoming more widely known with the resurgence in research in the past decade. Research has suggested a link between psychedelics and an increase in mindfulness with lasting effect, but no systematic review has examined specifics aspects of this increase in mindfulness. Objective: Explore the link between psychedelics and characteristics of mindfulness. Methods: We conducted a systematic search across multiple databases, inclusive of grey literature and backwards/forward-citation tracking, on the 18 January 2021. The search strategy included terms relating to mindfulness and psychedelics, with no restriction on clinical or non-clinical conditions. Study quality was assessed. An exploratory random-effects meta-analysis was conducted on pre-post mindfulness data relative to psychedelic ingestion. Results: Of 1805 studies screened, 13 were included in the systematic review. There was substantial variability in participant characteristics, psychedelic administration method and measurement of mindfulness. The ingestion of psychedelics is associated with an increase in mindfulness, specifically relating to domains of acceptance, which encompasses non-judgement of inner experience and non-reactivity. The meta-analysis of a subset of studies (N=6) showed small effects overall relative to ayahuasca ingestion, increasing mindfulness facets of non-judgement of inner experience and non-reactivity, as well as acting with awareness. Conclusions: Further methodologically robust research is needed to elucidate the relationship between psychedelics and mindfulness. However, mindfulness and specific facets relating to acceptance have been shown to increase following ingestion of psychedelics in a number of studies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Endang Fourianalistyawati ◽  
Ratih Arruum Listiyandini

Depresi merupakan gangguan mental yang umum terjadi di dunia, namun tetap menjadi suatu faktor kontribusi pada penurunan kecepatan penyembuhan berbagai penyakit lain. Prevalensi gangguan depresif mayor merupakan salah satu yang tertinggi dan angka tersebut terus meningkat sepanjang sepuluh tahun belakangan ini. Beberapa faktor yang berperan terhadap penurunan depresi banyak dilakukan. Salah satu penelitian di Amerika menunjukkan bahwa individu yang mengalami depresi atau simtom depresi cenderung memiliki tingkat mindfulness yang rendah, dibuktikan dengan aktivitas neural yang bertolak belakang pada individu yang depresi dan individu yang memiliki tingkat mindfulness yang tinggi. Mindfulness merupakan kemampuan seorang individu untuk sadar dan memerhatikan setiap detil kejadian yang sedang terjadi saat itu. Dengan kemampuan disposisional untuk mindful, individu dapat menerima setiap pengalaman yang terjadi dengan reseptif dan terbuka, sehingga kecil kemungkinan individu untuk melakukan ruminasi. Individu dengan kemampuan mindfulness yang tinggi cenderung memiliki tingkat depresi yang rendah, sebaliknya individu yang dengan tingkat depresi tinggi diketahui memiliki tingkat mindfulness yang rendah. Hanya sedikit publikasi yang telah mendiskusikan depresi pada remaja secara menyeluruh, meskipun beberapa penelitian telah menemukan bahwa awal kemunculan depresi dimulai sejak awal periode kehidupan tersebut. Mengetahui hubungan antara mindfulness dan depresi pada remaja di Indonesia diperlukan sebagai landasan awal untuk penelitian selanjutnya dan memberikan panduan untuk terapi mindfulness dalam mengatasi depresi pada remaja di Indonesia. Menggunakan metode kuantitatif dan desain korelasional, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) dan kuesioner depresi yaitu BDI, disebarkan kepada 200 remaja. Dari hasil analisis menggunakan korelasi Spearman, diketahui bahwa terdapat hubungan yang negatif dan signifikan antara mindfulness dan depresi, terutama pada dimensi acting with awareness dan non judging of inner experience. Hasil tersebut menunjukkan bahwa semakin tinggi skor mindfulness pada dimensi acting with awareness dan non judging of inner experience, maka semakin rendah skor depresi yang dimiliki remaja.


2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Margaret Bowater
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My passion for dreamwork arose from discovering the power of dreams as a multi-level spiritual process within me and others in 1985 when I joined a group of therapists meeting regularly to explore our dreams. For several years we laughed and cried together as we discovered new insights, challenges, affirmations, and healing. I was inspired by a “big dream” of my own about embarking on a journey of the soul. I studied to learn more about dreams and began leading workshops, seeing with awe how dreams opened windows into everyone’s inner experience, from post-trauma nightmares to perceptive feedback on personal issues to unforgettable mystical visions. I learned to ask simple questions of dreamers and I take continuing delight in seeing the “Aha” in the eyes of clients, students, and colleagues as they make connections and discover new perspectives. From the beginning of psychotherapy, dreamwork in one form or another has been of its essence. Waitara I pupū ake taku ngākaunui ki te whakarehu i te kitenga i te awe o te moemoeā pēnei ki tētahi paparanga hātepe wairua i roto i a au me ētahi atu, i te tau 1985, i tōku piringa ki tētahi rōpū kaihaumanu tūtakitaki ai ki te hōpara i ā mātou moemoeā. He maha ngā tau kata tahi, tangi tahi ai mātou ia wā kitea he tirohanga hou, he takinga, he whakakoihanga, he tumahuhanga. Whakahiringa ngākauhia ahau i tētahi pekerangi nui āku. Ka whakawhānuihia ake e au aku akoranga mō tēnei mea te moemoeā ka tīmata ki te taki awheawhe me te kite kaiora i te mahi a te moemoeā ki te whakatuwhera huarahi wheako whakaroto o te katoa, mai i ngā kuku i muri pāmamae ki ngā whakautu hōhonu whakapā ki ngā take whearo ki ngā kitenga māminga. I mōhio au kia noho mahuki ngā pātai, ā, e haere tonu ana te harikoa ki te kite i te taka o te māramatanga ki ngā kanohi o ngā kiritaki, ākonga me ngā hoamahi ia wā puta mai ngā hononga me ngā kitenga hou. Mai i te tīmatanga o te whakaoranga hinengaro, ko te whakarehu me ōna āhua tōna iho.


1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Lauren Langman ◽  
David McCleland
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