scholarly journals Nondual Awareness and the Whole Person

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 216495612091460
Author(s):  
Paul J Mills ◽  
Tiffany J Barsotti ◽  
Judith Blackstone ◽  
Deepak Chopra ◽  
Zoran Josipovic
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Integrative Health ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Whole Systems ◽  
Human Awareness ◽  
Do So

Integrative Health aims to treat the whole person and to do so within the context of whole systems and practices. We raise questions as to what constitutes the whole person and what must be taken into account to support the creation of optimal well-being. We propose that in order to fully account for the whole person, the transcendent aspects of human awareness, the development of which is the goal of many meditative traditions, must be taken into account. “Nondual awareness” is a term increasingly used in the literature to describe a state of awareness that is characterized by the experience of nonseparation, compassion, and love. Well-being in this state does not depend on anything being experienced per se, but it is rather an innate attribute of living in nonduality. For these reasons, nondual awareness can be considered foundational to the realization of the whole person and achieving the state of optimal well-being.

Gene Doping—in Animals? Ethical Issues at the Intersection of Animal Use, Gene Editing, and Sports Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROLYN P. NEUHAUS ◽  
BRENDAN PARENT
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Sports Ethics ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Animal Use ◽  
Moral Status Of Animals ◽  
Do So

Abstract:Gene editors such as CRISPR could be used to create stronger, faster, or more resilient nonhuman animals. This is of keen interest to people who breed, train, race, and profit off the millions of animals used in sport that contribute billions of dollars to legal and illegal economies across the globe. People have tried for millennia to perfect sport animals; CRISPR proposes to do in one generation what might have taken decades previously. Moreover, gene editing may facilitate enhancing animals’ capacities beyond their typical limits. This paper describes the state of animal use and engineering for sport, examines the moral status of animals, and analyzes current and future ethical issues at the intersection of animal use, gene editing, and sports. We argue that animal sport enthusiasts and animal welfarists alike should be concerned about the inevitable use of CRISPR in sport animals. Though in principle CRISPR could be used to improve sport animals’ well-being, we think it is unlikely in practice to do so.

Food First: Nutrition as the Foundation for Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Sandquist
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biological Functions ◽  
Gastrointestinal Dysfunction ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Whole Systems ◽  
Health And Well Being

The principles of integrative nursing advocate that food be considered as a primary intervention for health promotion, risk reduction, and generally improved well-being. Food provides information to the body, signaling basic biological functions and normalizing physiological processes. Health care professionals should query patients about their nutritional intake, recognizing that adjustments in the types of foods consumed can often address long-standing symptoms that create distress, including pain, fatigue, anxiety, and gastrointestinal dysfunction. A Food First approach to care offers a novel approach that champions whole person/whole systems emergent health and well-being.

Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 000312242110329
Author(s):  
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
State Management ◽  
State Governance ◽  
The Creation

How do states manage their populations? Some scholars see the state as primarily governing through punishment, but how might the state engage in other forms of disciplining subjects? I address these questions by exploring the state management of labor migration through interviews and participant observation of compulsory government workshops. I look at the case of Filipino domestic workers in Arab states. States are said to exercise bio-power when they market and discipline migrants to be competitive and compliant workers, in the process ignoring migrant vulnerabilities. In contrast, this article establishes that sending states attend to migrant vulnerabilities. In addition to bio-power, states also exercise pastoral power, caring for the well-being of migrants through the creation of labor standards, regulation of migration, and education policies. This analysis extends our understanding of the state management of migration as well as the state management of populations as it advances Foucault’s discussion of the exercise of power.

Prison libraries serving the ‘whole person’: A qualitative study

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110089
Author(s):  
Shreya Mishra ◽  
Manosi Chaudhuri ◽  
Ajoy Kumar Dey ◽  
Rishi Tiwari ◽  
Rupali Singh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Whole Person

Incarceration is a traumatic life experience for both convicted and non-convicted individuals and life in prison is not easy to get through. However, prison administrations often establish different avenues for the prisoners to help them navigate through their incarceration. One such avenue is prison libraries. This study explores the influence of the prison library in the lives of eight incarcerated individuals, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The study is based on the concept of the ‘whole person librarianship’ while using a phenomenological approach. The analysis resulted in the emergence of three broad themes: ‘Coming to term with incarceration’, ‘Library, a ray of hope’ and ‘Reinventing self through books’. The study expands our understanding of how the prison library can be a place that reduces stress and increases positive mental health by serving the ‘whole person’. Furthermore, it reduces stress and anxiety related to the state of liminality created by incarceration and gives inmates a purpose beyond prison. Thus, it helps them in making meaning of their situation, being mindful of themselves and their surroundings, healing them in the process, and supports their well-being. The findings suggest that books help the inmates to navigate their lives during incarceration.

scholarly journals Operative Management and Disposal of Hospital Wastes: A Comprehensive Appraisal

2021 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hindustan Abdul Ahad ◽  
Lami Singh ◽  
Haranath Chinthaginjala ◽  
Sravya Nandyala Nandyala ◽  
Reddy Haritha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Operative Management ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Medical Clinics ◽  
Hospital Wastes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Infectious Waste ◽  
Do So

: Health clinics are significant destinations for the creation of risky waste. Every clinic has its own profile for the management and transport of waste contingent upon its area. It is amazingly crucial to guarantee that the waste created in medical clinics is sufficiently kept away from dangers to well-being and the climate. The manuscript describes the control of clinical waste, which incorporates infectious waste, synthetic substances, lapsed medications, radioactive trash, and rough waste are the major ones in hospitals. On the off chance that the administration is not efficient, it becomes perilous, as they are pathogenic and environmentally unsafe. Inability to do so can bring about negative results; for example, genuine well-being chances and the clinic's standing. This article portrays the different ways to deal with the powerful administration of clinic squander. The authors conclude that pretreatment is basic before discarding emergency clinic squander in a hospital to minimize hazardous issues.

scholarly journals Desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta para identificação de padrões culturais para a inovação: relato da trajetória de um projeto de cooperação técnico-científica

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Ghisi Feuerschütte ◽  
Dannyela da Cunha Lemos ◽  
Micheline Gaia Hoffmann ◽  
Roberto Fabiano Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Cultural Standards ◽  
The Creation ◽  
State Of Art ◽  
Do So

Neste artigo, de natureza tecnológica, teve-se como objetivo descrever o processo de desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta para identificação de padrões culturais para a inovação. A demanda teve origem em um projeto de cooperação técnico-científica, firmado entre o Instituto Ewaldo Lodi de Santa Catarina (IEL-SC) e a Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC).  Coube a esta a meta de realizar a pesquisa e o desenvolvimento para a concepção de ferramentas a serem incorporadas na Metodologia Integrada de Gestão da Inovação (Nugin), para a criação de ambientes de inovação nas empresas. Para isso, buscou-se primeiramente caracterizar o estado da arte e identificar as lacunas da metodologia Nugin. Após, realizou-se a busca por ferramentas que dessem apoio ao gap encontrado. Por fim, procedeu-se a estruturação e construção do conteúdo da metodologia para identificar os padrões culturais favoráveis à criação de ambientes de inovação, por meio da definição das dimensões de análise, assertivas e escala, da validação semântica e do design e desenvolvimento do artefato computacional.Palavras-chave: Ambiente de inovação. Padrões culturais de inovação. Cooperação técnico-científica. NAGI. NUGIN.Abstract This technological article aimed to describe the process of developing a tool for identifying cultural standards for innovation. The demand was originated on a project of technical and scientific cooperation, signed between Instituto Ewaldo Lodi de Santa Catarina (IEL-SC), and Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC). It was left to UDESC the goal to perform the research and the development for the design of tools to be incorporated into the Methodology Innovation Management Integrated (Nugin), for the creation of innovation environments in enterprises. To do so, it first sought to characterize the state of art and identify the gaps in Nugin methodology. After, there was the search for tools that supported the gap found. Finally, we proceeded to the structure and construction of the content of the methodology to identify cultural patterns favorable to the creation of innovation environments, by defining the dimensions of analysis, assertive and scale, the semantic validation and design and development of computational device.Keywords: Innovation environment. Cultural patterns of innovation. Technical and scientific cooperation. NAGI. Nugin.

Slow Connection

Inner Asia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Tatiana Safonova ◽  
Istvan Santha
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
East Siberia ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Village

Abstract Using ethnographic materials collected in 2008 and 2009 in a distant and isolated village in East Siberia, this article shows how slow and distorted connections contribute to the development of a specific eco-biopolitical space that can be likened to a spaceship physically disconnected from the mainland. Life in such a ‘bubble’ is dependent on supplies from the mainland, which create rhythms of activities in the community. The lack of access to state services and institutions is compensated by local initiatives to mimic such organisations. The state provides channels of escape from the village, such as emergency flights, but does not invest in infrastructures that would link this settlement to other places. The community ‘bubble’ exists not because of infrastructural absence per se, but because this isolation is asymmetrical. It is easier and faster to get from the village to the centre than it is to return. This imbalance expresses the power relations between the centre and periphery and systematically reproduces conditions in which resources drain from the village. This ‘slow connection’ is the condition for the creation of a specific eco-biopolitical regime, in which a rich place is occupied by people living in poverty.

Whole-Systems Healing

2014 ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kreitzer ◽  
Jayne Felgen ◽  
Patricia A. Roach
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
World View ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Complexity Science ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Adaptive Action ◽  
Systems Leadership ◽  
Whole Systems ◽  
Deep Listening ◽  
Health And Well Being

Integrative nursing embodies a whole person/whole systems approach to advancing the health and well-being of people, organizations, communities and the environment. It is based on a whole systems world view, an approach that recognizes that a change in any part of the systems causes a change in the whole system. Whole systems thinking and leadership draws from concepts and principles of complexity science, social networks, social change and gentle action. Whole systems leadership embodies competencies of deep listening, awareness of systems, awareness of self, seeking diverse perspectives, suspending certainty and embracing uncertainty, and taking adaptive action.

scholarly journals Methodological recommendations for digital evaluation of social indicators of enterprises

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Oleksandr HRYHORIEV ◽  
Natalia PETRYSHYN ◽  
Andrii TODOSHCHUK
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Average Salary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Evaluation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Social Rating ◽  
Legal Entities

Introduction. One of the most important functions of the state in accordance with the Constitution is a constant increase of the well-being of the population of Ukraine. The main direction of raising the well-being is the implementation of the country's socio-economic policy. Digital rating of legal entities and individuals is one of the directions of informatization of society in European integration. The importance of the rating is determined by the problem of creating a transparent society, the fight against corruption, the creation of equal conditions for individuals and legal entities, control over the loyalty of the population, etc. The purpose of the paper is the thorough study and analogization of the international and domestic experience of social rating of economic activity of enterprises on the territory of Ukraine in order to develop harmonized and unified methodological recommendations for the social rating of business entities in the conditions of European integration of Ukraine. Results. In the conditions of chronic deficit of the state budget and the deficit of the Pension Fund, all types of activity of the enterprise are acquiring special relevance to the improvement of these problems. Of course, for the rating of an enterprise, one of the most important indicators is the indicator of payment of taxes and social contributions to compulsory state funds. The next criterion for assessing the social activities of the enterprise is employment at the enterprise. Special moment you need to note the creation of new jobs. Also important element of evaluation is a salary, or rather its size. The main landmark should serve the average salary in the field of field in the country, but with an amendment to the geographical region. The more deviation from the average salary in one direction or another, the more accrued (calculated) scores to the rating. The auxiliary unit consists of a social package that operates at the enterprise. Conclusions. The proposed methodological recommendations on the social rating of enterprises allow to form the necessary basis for state bodies in the scope of managerial decisions on financing, support, protection, permission to participate in public bids, providing various benefits and brets and it is recommended to use not only by state social bodies, but also by others, by a variety of state authorities. The proposed recommendations will allow to eliminate disadvantages in the distribution of state subsidies, subsidies, subventions and other state-owned assistance, as well as serve as a benchmark in determining the optimal social policy both in the country as well as in regions. Social authorities will also be able to optimize the necessary issuance of targeted assistance not only legal but also on the basis of the existing base and individuals.

scholarly journals SANITARY-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AUDIT AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN THE SPHERE OF SANITARY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL WELFARE OF THE POPULATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-93
Author(s):  
Irina V. May ◽  
E. V. Sedusova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
External Control ◽  
National System ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Audit Reports

The article considers the legal and organizational aspects of the establishment of a national system of sanitary and epidemiological audit in the Russian Federation. There is described the experience of the functioning of sanitary audit in the republics of Belarus and Kazakhstan, examples of using audit in other spheres of supervision are given. It is shown that in the context of the administrative reform of the control and surveillance activities, the sanitary and epidemiological audit can partially replace the state planned control of low and moderate risks to human health, releasing the resources of the state authorities for overseeing high-risk objects. The creation of the system requires the normative consolidation of the registration procedure and the functioning of organizations with the right to implement activities in the field of sanitary and epidemiological audit, the development of rules for external control of audit services. It seems that the quality assurance in this area should be ensured by the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being in the Russian Federation, under whose auspices the national system can function. An important stage in the creation of a new tool for managing sanitary and epidemiological well-being is the development of a database structure and appropriate software to maintain auditor registers and audit reports. A separate task is to provide methodological and organizational support for the training of qualified personnel.

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