A system to support long-term creative thinking in daily life and its evaluation

Long-term meditation practice is increasingly recognized for its health benefits. Heartfulness meditation represents a quickly growing set of practices that is largely unstudied. Heartfulness is unique in that it is a meditation practice that focuses on the Heart. It helps individuals to connect to themselves and find inner peace. In order to deepen ones’ meditation, the element of Yogic Energy (‘pranahuti’) is used as an aid during meditation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether consistent EEG effects of Heartfulness meditation be observed in sixty experienced Heartfulness meditators, each of whom attended 6 testing sessions. In each session, participants performed three conditions: a set of cognitive tasks, Heartfulness guided relaxation, and Heartfulness Meditation. Participants during the cognitive portion were required to answer questions that tested their logical thinking (Cognitive Reflective Test) and creative thinking skills. (Random Associative Test) The order of condition was randomly counter balanced across six sessions. It was hypothesized that Heartfulness meditation would bring increased alpha (8-12Hz) brain activity during meditation and better cognitive task scores in sessions where the tasks followed meditation. Heartfulness meditation produces a significant decrease in brain activity (as indexed by higher levels of alpha during the early stages of meditation. As the meditation progressed deep meditative state (as indexed by higher levels of delta) were observed until the end of the condition. This lead to the conclusion that Heartfulness Meditation produces a state that is clearly distinguishable from effortful problem solving.

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Older Adults’ Ways of Dealing With Daily Life While Living With Long-Term Musculoskeletal Pain at Home

Journal of Applied Gerontology ◽

10.1177/0733464810397540 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 685-705 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Catharina Gillsjö ◽

Donna Schwartz-Barcott ◽

Ingrid Bergh ◽

Lars Owe Dahlgren

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Musculoskeletal Pain ◽

Daily Life ◽

At Home

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Long-Term Follow-Up and Education Regarding Daily Life Activities, School Life, and Guidelines After Acute KD

Kawasaki Disease ◽

10.1007/978-4-431-56039-5_33 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 297-301

Author(s):

Mamoru Ayusawa

Keyword(s):

Daily Life ◽

School Life ◽

Daily Life Activities ◽

Long Term Follow Up

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Connecting the Dots

Collective Creativity for Responsible and Sustainable Business Practice - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1823-5.ch002 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 26-41

Author(s):

Olajumoke Ogunsanya

Keyword(s):

Creative Thinking ◽

Business Practices ◽

Business Organizations ◽

Sustainable Business ◽

Term Survival ◽

Collective Creativity ◽

Connecting The Dots ◽

Creativity And Innovation ◽

The Relationship

Calls for businesses to act with concern for the environment and society create new operating scenarios in which sustainability concerns must be taken into consideration along with the primary objectives of profitability and competitiveness. These additional obligations contribute to dynamism of the marketplace and make it important for businesses to draw on creativity and innovation to find connections between the unrelated in order to establish new efficiencies that can create competitive advantage and differentiation in the environment they find themselves. The central theme of this chapter is how bisociation informs collective creativity and innovation, and influences sustainability for business organizations competing in an environment that is in a permanent state of flux. This chapter trails a series of concepts to find the relationship between the concept of bisociation, collective creativity and sustainable business practices. The aim is to show how consistent creative thinking and exploration of information in different spaces of thought can proffer innovative solutions organizations require for their long term survival and prosperity.

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Long-term feeding issue and its impact on the daily life of congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors: results of the first patient-led survey

Pediatric Surgery International ◽

10.1007/s00383-019-04570-6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 63-68

Author(s):

Beverley Power ◽

Soichi Shibuya ◽

Brenda Lane ◽

Simon Eaton ◽

Paolo De Coppi

Keyword(s):

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia ◽

Diaphragmatic Hernia ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Daily Life ◽

Acid Reflux ◽

Parent Support ◽

Feeding Problems ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Written Information

Abstract Background CDH UK is a registered charity governed by a volunteer committee and providing informal support to patients, families and healthcare workers affected directly or indirectly with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) internationally. This is the first patient-led survey undertaken by CDH UK aiming for highlighting the feeding problems and their impact on the daily life of CDH survivors. Methods Answers from CDH survivors were collected through an online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey®) undertaken by CDH UK. The questionnaire contained questions about their feeding problems and support they were receiving for it. Main results Overall, 151 patients answered some parts of the survey and 102 patients completed the questionnaire. Overall, 116 (76.8%) responders reported suffering from any type of feeding issue. Gastric acid reflux (GER) and growth retardation were the commonest symptoms experienced by 97 (91.5%) and 72 (62.2%) responders, respectively. Only 18 (17.0%) responders have received any written information on feeding or details of patient/parent support. Eighty (75.5%) responders are satisfied with the level of support they are receiving, but 78 (76.4%) answered that the whole experience associated with the disease has been very or extremely stressful. Conclusions CDH survivors frequently have various issues with feeding, which may not be adequately supported or discussed clinically. It is desirable to assist the patients to reliable resources of long-term support, including multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach.

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Measurement of negative attitudes toward robots

Interaction Studies ◽

10.1075/is.7.3.14nom ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 437-454 ◽

Cited By ~ 101

Author(s):

Tatsuya Nomura ◽

Tomohiro Suzuki ◽

Takayuki Kanda ◽

Kensuke Kato

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Social Influence ◽

Daily Life ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Short Term ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

Japanese University ◽

The Social

A great deal of research has been performed recently on robots that feature functions for communicating with humans in daily life, i.e., communication robots. We consider it important to develop methods to measure humans’ attitudes and emotions that may prevent them from interaction with communication robots, as indices to study short-term and long-term interaction between humans and communication robots. This study is aimed at exploring the influence of negative attitudes toward robots, focusing on applications of communication robots to daily-life services. First, a scale of negative attitudes toward robots consisting of three subordinate scales, “negative attitudes toward situations of interaction with robots,” “negative attitudes toward the social influence of robots,” and “negative attitudes toward emotions in interaction with robots,” was developed based on a data sample comprising of 263 Japanese university students. This scale was administered to 240 Japanese university students to confirm its validity and reliability. In this paper, we report on the results of analyses of these data samples. Moreover, we discuss some future problems including a comparison of attitudes toward robots between nations.

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