scholarly journals C. P. E. BACH ‘IN TORMENTIS’: GOUT PAIN AND BODY LANGUAGE IN THE FANTASIA IN A MAJOR, h278 (1782)

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW HEAD
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mental Pain ◽  
Keyboard Music ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Mind

ABSTRACTIn his Magazin der Musik, Carl Friedrich Cramer reported that C. P. E. Bach's Fantasia in A major, h278 (1782), was composed during the agonies of gout. Tapping into a reported epidemic of this patrician malady among men of letters, Cramer's anecdote invoked rich associations of sequestered suffering, withdrawal from public life, the pleasures of the table, genius, sexual (im)potency and humour. Reflecting contemporary nerve-based theories of sensation, Cramer aligned different types of physical and mental pain with specific musical gestures. In so doing, he did more than indulge his hermeneutic imagination: he suggested a connection between Bach's solo keyboard music and the experience of embodiment. The seemingly abstract gestures of improvisation were linked dialectically to the corporeal. Behind the specifics of Cramer's reading is a conviction that this kind of music ‘knows’ about the body, as well as the mind, and that it moves between gestures suggestive of thinking, speaking, feeling and corporeal sensation. Analysis of the fantasia, and Bach's letters, supports Cramer's reading.

scholarly journals Interactions between Personality and Types of Mindfulness Practice in Reducing Burnout in Mental Health Professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6721
Author(s):  
Raquel Ruiz-Íñiguez ◽  
Ana Carralero Montero ◽  
Francisco A. Burgos-Julián ◽  
Justo Reinaldo Fabelo Roche ◽  
Miguel A. Santed
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mindfulness Practice ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

Research on mindfulness-based interventions reports mainly on improvements at the group level. Thus, there is a need to elaborate on the individual differences in their effectiveness. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to examine which personality factors could influence burnout reduction associated with different types of mindfulness practice and (2) to evaluate the interaction between personality factors and the amount of home practice; both aims were controlled for sociodemographic characteristics. A total of 104 Cuban mental health professionals, who participated in a crossover trial, were included. The effect of personality (Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors) was analyzed through regression analysis. First, the results revealed that Emotional Stability and Vigilance could negatively moderate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions. Second, participants who scored low in Sensitivity or Vigilance could benefit more from the body-centered practices (i.e., body scan and Hatha yoga practices), but no significant results for the mind-centered practices (i.e., classical meditation) were found. Third, participants who scored high in Self-reliance could benefit more from informal practice. Other personality factors did not appear to moderate the effect of the interventions, though previous experience in related techniques must be considered. Recommendations and clinical implications are discussed. Trial registration number is NCT03296254 (clinicaltrials.gov).

scholarly journals Bailando la huella del espacio / Dancing space trace / “Danzando il segno dello spazio”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Toro Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
Final Goal ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Precise Time

El inicio de esta investigación se sitúa en una inquietud hacia una de las primeras formas de arte que el ser humano manifiesta de forma casi instintiva, la Danza; así mismo el contacto más directo con esta siendo lenguaje expresivo, donde la anatomía artística se convirtió en protagonista de la investigación. Este proyecto, refleja un cuerpo que se desliza en un tiempo preciso y un espacio narrativo en el cual se desdibuja descifrándose a sí mismo en la huella danzada, identidad de este y pretensión nuestra a alcanzar; algo efímero, su huella, su representación, su propia voz. Con ello se quiso reflejar que un dibujo anatómico, al igual que la danza de un cuerpo, se puede traducir a través del espacio y el tiempo, en cualquier otro modo de creación, ya sea escultórico, pictórico, escenográfico, musical, fotográfico, etcétera; cabe destacar el importante papel que juega el espacio y tiempo en este, pues traduce y traspasa los lenguajes trasladando la dimensión espacial; Hablamos pues, de bidi y tridimensionalidad.Dancing space traceThe aim of this research is to sed light on the latent concern about one of the earliest forms of art which humans being manifest instinctively, the Dance, moreover, the direct connection of this art with the expressive body language, where the artistic anatomy became the protagonist and challenge of this study. According to the facts mentioned above, the work focused on the body that slides into the precise time as well as the narrative space in which is decoded it self on the dance track, that represents it’s identify, moreover led my final goal to reach. Something ephemeral, it’s footprint, representation, what’s more it’s own voice. Furthermore, it is a reflection of how a picture of the anatomic body, as well as it’s own dance, can be represented through the space and time dimensions as any sort of creation. Whether sculptural, painterly, scenic, musical, photographic, so on. It claims to be noted the significant role of time and space on the dance as transfers and translate the different types of languages developing and modifying the spacial translation. Ending up in the bidi and three-dimensionality matter.“Danzando il segno dello spazio”L’inizio di questa ricerca si trova in una inquietudine verso una delle prime forme d’arte che l’essere umano manifesta quasi istintivamente, la danza; Allo stesso modo il contatto più diretto con questa come linguaggio espressivo, in cui l’anatomia artistica divenne protagonista delle indagini. Questo progetto, riflette un corpo scorrevole in un tempo preciso e uno spazio narrativo in cui si sfuma decifrato sé stesso nel segno danzato, l’identità di questo e obiettivo nostro di raggiungere; qualcosa di effimero, la sua impronta, la sua rappresentazione, la propria voce. Questo è stato lo scopo per dimostrare che un disegno anatomico, come la danza di un corpo, può essere tradotto attraverso lo spazio e il tempo, in qualsiasi altra modalità di creazione, sia la scultura, la pittura, teatro, musica, fotografia, ecc. Vale la pena notare l’importante ruolo dal spazio e il tempo in questo progetto, poiché traduce e proietta i linguaggi spostando la dimensione spaziale; Si parla poi di bidi e tridimensionalità

scholarly journals Man is an object and a subject of social and humanitarian sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (86) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
O.V. Ohirko
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Living Matter ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Spiritual Ability

Philosophical, anthropological and Christian views on a person as a reasonable, free, religious and social person are considered. Theocentric and anthropocentric views are analyzed. Man is three worlds: physical, cognitive, and affective. Man differs from other creatures by having reason and will and natural inclinations. Man is embodied in the spirit and the spiritualized body, and its human spirit is expressed in bodily form. The body and soul of man are not two realities that are separated from one another. The body is a living matter, merged with the soul. The body, having the ability to feed, move, rest, multiply, falls under the laws of matter, that is, in particular, under the law of death. The human soul animates the body, reveals the spiritual ability to think abstractly, to create ideas, assessments, reasoning, make decisions freely. She does not suffer corporal death and can not decompose. In order for a person to live according to his nature, the mind must freely and sincerely seek the truth, and the will must always desire the truth offered as reason by the mind. A person is a person who has his own mind, will and feeling. In view of its dignity, the human person is the center of public life. Man as an image and likeness of God, is able to know, to love the Creator, and to serve Him. Man as a person is a goal in itself and in no case is not only an instrumental instrument. The purpose of human life is to love people and God, to be kind, to know, to speak and to testify the truth.

scholarly journals Surprise: A Circular Dynamic of Multi-Directional Verbalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Depraz
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Dual Model ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Number Of Authors

To understand the dynamics of the verbalization of surprise, I will start with the philosophical theoretical place that is, in my opinion, the most remarkable in terms of the descriptive phenomenology of surprise, namely, its approach by Paul Ricœur in Freedom and Nature in terms of what he calls “emotion-surprise.” This theoretical position will lead me to retrace, in a second step, the archeology of what Ricoeur calls the “circular phenomenon” or the “circular process” of surprise, which includes body language in a burst of "shaking" and the language of cognitive as well as aesthetic "shock". There is an a priori antinomy here that is based on a post-Cartesian duality of the body and the mind, but it is circularized by Ricoeur. On the basis of this dual model of surprise, I will retrace its genealogy in a number of authors (Darwin, James, Izard, and Ekman on the one hand, and Peirce, Husserl, Dennett, Davidson, on the other hand) and will analyze some first-person descriptions that come from “microphenomenological interviews” [entretiens d’explicitation].

scholarly journals МЕТАФОРА СПРИЙНЯТТЯ СВІТУ В КОНТЕКСТІ РОЗДУМІВ ПРО КРИЗУ МЕТАФІЗИЧНОГО ДИСКУРСУ

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
О. О. Дольська
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Geometry ◽  
The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Global World ◽  
The Universe

The existential structure of the World, that is, the reality in which we exist, shaped by the organization of space. The only mechanism of this process is the meanings and meanings with which a person fills certain objects, phenomena. For example, the design of the space of the house was quite a complicated procedure for creating symbols, which defined the space itself as a habitable reality. The structure of the world traditionally implemented in the concept of the geometry of the World. The article shows that the idea of the spatial characteristics of the World affects not only its understanding and “vision”, but also sets the normativity of thought. The geometry of the World represented by the metaphor of combs. This statement considered in the context of the crisis of metaphysical discourse, the material for which provided by post-metaphysical philosophy. In contrast to the Cartesian paradigm, there observed an appeal of philosophy to the subject of the philosophy of the body, landscape, to the understanding of the multidimensionality of the spatial configurations and manifestations. Post metaphysical discourse also indicates a change in thinking. There is a connection between the image of the World and the thought that shapes it. It can be expressed in the following: the geometry of the space of the equipped World is both a product and a source of intellectual shifts (the problem of being and thinking). Metaphysical discourse leaves us in the World-sphere, but modern philosophy and the man of the present equip the World with the help of the metaphor of the World-Cell. If the changes relate to the World outlook, the universe, then such a transformation of the image of the World “pulls” behind itself a revolution also in the human worldview and equated with intellectual revolutions. The change in ideas about the World indicates a change in the nature of human thinking, and therefore we faced with the fact of ontological, vital and cognitive transformations. In the modern geometry of the World, the transversal mind finds its realization, which activates the phenomenon of communications. Therefore, the spatial metaphor of the World, its geometry and style of thinking, intertwining, influence each other. However in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The spherical ontology of the world begins its decline, and since the middle of the twentieth century, such a steady as if the world began to shake. The loss of the roots of a spherical nature touches, and then shakes the wider layer of subjective qualities: it broadly captures the mental, cultural, social and economic spheres of man. In addition, as a result, such a balanced by the spherical ontology of the internal human space begins processes of destruction or destructive transformations. Spheres are beginning to break up the instabilities that make any risks real, and the welcome spherical geometry becomes unviable. The question arose about the need for a new understanding of the world and its topology. Today we see transformations in the understanding of the universe. We propose to consider it in the form of cell geometry, the metaphor of which are bee cells, cells. It is not unreasonable. Philosophy has recently moved precisely to such an understanding, expanding its intelligence around the metaphor of the fold, the theme of "the death of the subject," and the subjects of subjection. Expanding the reflection around the question of a new metaphor of the world, there is a question about the nature of the mind of this space. Modern global world creates a heterogeneous space, and it is a space of communication, aimed at overcoming all sorts of borders, language, political, scientific, cultural, religious and so on. To overcome different types of rationality, for communication between them necessary becomes a transversal mind in the new conditions.

Is Women's Participation in Different Types of Yoga Classes Associated with Different Levels of Body Awareness Satisfaction?

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelley Delaney ◽  
Kristine Anthis
Keyword(s):  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Consciousness ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Objectified Body Consciousness ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Mind

This study examined the relationship between women's participation in different types of Yoga classes and different facets of body image. Ninety-two women at five different sites of Yoga instruction completed assessments of Yoga experience, internalization of Yoga principles, body satisfaction, body awareness, body consciousness, and eating attitudes. Yoga experience was coded according to months/years of practice, self-rated expertise, and how much the classes attended emphasized the "mind" aspects of Yoga (e.g., meditation, breathing, mindfulness, and chanting) as well as the "body" aspects (postures, fitness). Participants in Yoga classes that included more emphasis on the mind showed significantly greater levels of internalizing the teachings of Yoga, as well as greater body awareness and satisfaction. Greater experience with Yoga was associated with lower objectified body consciousness. Greater internalization of Yoga principles was associated with greater body satisfaction and sense of control of the body. Greater self-rated expertise in Yoga was associated with greater body awareness and fewer body shape concerns. None of the Yoga measures was significantly associated with the Eating Attitudes Test, which is designed to measure attitudes and behaviors associated with eating disorders. Although correlational, the results of this study suggest that further attention be paid to how the psychological benefits of Yoga differ across different types of Yoga classes. Future experimental research on the psychological benefits of Yoga should examine the importance of emphasizing a fully integrated mind-body practice rather than only the fitness aspects of Yoga.

Burnout of the Mind – Burnout of the Body?

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Traunmüller ◽  
Kerstin Gaisbachgrabner ◽  
Helmut Karl Lackner ◽  
Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Percentage ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Urinary Catecholamines ◽  
Morning Cortisol ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Cortisol Increase

Abstract. In the present paper we investigate whether patients with a clinical diagnosis of burnout show physiological signs of burden across multiple physiological systems referred to as allostatic load (AL). Measures of the sympathetic-adrenergic-medullary (SAM) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis were assessed. We examined patients who had been diagnosed with burnout by their physicians (n = 32) and were also identified as burnout patients based on their score in the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) and compared them with a nonclinical control group (n = 19) with regard to indicators of allostatic load (i.e., ambulatory ECG, nocturnal urinary catecholamines, salivary morning cortisol secretion, blood pressure, and waist-to-hip ratio [WHR]). Contrary to expectations, a higher AL index suggesting elevated load in several of the parameters of the HPA and SAM axes was found in the control group but not in the burnout group. The control group showed higher norepinephrine values, higher blood pressure, higher WHR, higher sympathovagal balance, and lower percentage of cortisol increase within the first hour after awakening as compared to the patient group. Burnout was not associated with AL. Results seem to indicate a discrepancy between self-reported burnout symptoms and psychobiological load.

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