Prática do Yoga na Sociedade e a Saúde Segundo a Psicologia Analítica

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Daniele Letícia Baptista Jeannin
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
The Body ◽  
External Object ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Eastern Philosophy ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Health Field

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar, com base conceitual na Psicologia Analítica, a prática do yoga na sociedade ocidental e discutir algumas de suas implicações no campo da saúde, especialmente, para a Psicologia. A Psicologia considera que o yoga é uma das maneiras desta sociedade vivenciar a dimensão simbólica e recuperar, através do corpo e pelo yoga, sua ligação com um mundo mais amplo. A prática do yoga é disseminada na sociedade atual, tendo como elemento norteador a concepção de corpo própria do ocidente e não a concepção presente na cultura oriental. Ocorre uma apropriação do yoga pelo pensamento ocidental que descaracteriza esta prática. O corpo e a saúde no pensamento ocidental dominante se baseiam no modelo de pensamento científico, materialista e extrovertido, dirigido exclusivamente ao objeto externo e que desconsidera a dimensão simbólica, originalmente implícita na prática do yoga. Para a filosofia oriental, o corpo é um mediador entre micro e macrocosmo, sendo resultado de uma psique introvertida. Assim, a apropriação do yoga apenas como técnica corporal ou procedimento de saúde pelo pensamento dominante, o que desconsidera a dimensão simbólica e transformadora desta e implica em reforçar a atitude ocidental extrovertida e a dualidade corpo-mente. Palavras-chave: Yoga. Psicologia Analítica. Corpo. Saúde. AbstractThe objective of this study is to analyze, with conceptual basis on Analytical Psychology, the practice of yoga in Western society, and discuss some of its implications in health field, especially for Psychology. Itconsiders that yoga is one of the ways this society has to experience the symbolic dimension and recover, through the body and the yoga practice, and recover its connection to a wider world. The practice of yoga is widespread in today’s society, using as a guiding element the body conception of our Western society and not the conception present in the Eastern culture. It cccurs an appropriation of yoga by Western thought that decharacterizes this practice. The body and health in the dominant Western thought are based on scientific, materialistic and extroverted thinking model, directed exclusively to the external object and disregards the symbolic dimension rooted in the original yoga practice. In Eastern philosophy the body is a mediator between micro and macro cosm, as a result of an introverted psyche. Thus, yoga appropriation just as body technique or health procedure by the dominant thinking, which disregards its symbolic and transforming dimension, involves strengthening the extrovert Western attitude and mind-body duality Keywords: Yoga. Analytical Psychology. Body. Health.

scholarly journals Older women, embodiment and yoga practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1221-1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARBARA HUMBERSTONE ◽  
CAROL CUTLER-RIDDICK
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Biological Ageing ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
Body Techniques

ABSTRACTIn this paper, we consider the ageing body and the ‘body techniques’ practised by older women within their yoga classes. The paper emphasises the importance of exploring alternative definitions of the human condition, how these are shaped and assembled through particular embodied practices which are realised personally and socially. Taking a contextualised phenomenological approach, older women's experiences are made visible through interview and participant observation. Unlike much sporting practice, the body techniques managed by the women did not emphasise sporting prowess but provided for an integration of body and mind. In the process, biological ageing was accepted yet the women maintained control over the process, troubling prevailing narratives of ageing, declining control and increasing weakness that are taken for granted in much of Western society. The paper highlights the significance of socially rooted ontological embodiment in understanding the ageing body and particular bodily practices.

scholarly journals Os corpos do poema: as aporias do lugar de fala em um texto da Escrita Não Criativa

eLyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Silveira de Abreu
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Speaking For Others

This article begins by reading “The Body of Michael Brown”, by Kenneth Goldsmith. An exemplary text of Uncreative Writing, the poem opens a field of thought on the theory and practice of copy and appropriation writings. Through the construction of the text and its reception, with criticisms of a political nature, we were able to identify the place and responsibilities of the enunciation as proble-ms dear to the poetics of the unoriginal. In order to study how this problem is constituted, we take as object the statements of the texts involved in the event of this poem. We resume, from it, the conceptual basis of Uncreative Writing. Oppose to this, we read theories that dispute “the problem of speaking for others”, such as Spivak and Alcoff. Among the contradictions of these perspectives, it ends up showing an instability of appropriation, as well as the need to study it in a broader, post-autonomous context, which takes into account its contexts and effects.

Children's Preference for Body or External Object on a Task Requiring Transposition and Discrimination of Right-Left Relations

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald A. Winer
Keyword(s):  
First Graders ◽  
The Body ◽  
External Object ◽  
Initial Series ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
External Objects ◽  
Practice Trials

First graders were tested on trials requiring the discrimination and transposition of right-left relations, with stimuli similar to (dolls) or different from (toy planes) the body. On an initial series of training and practice trials children were allowed to respond to body and external objects as referents providing right-left cues. A later series of test trials was then used to determine the referent the child actually preferred. Results of the test trials indicated that 24 children tested with the dolls preferred the body as referent, while 24 children tested with planes preferred the external referent. The results were interpreted as suggesting two alternative systems through which children develop an undersranding of right-left relations and possibly other concepts as well.

Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. King
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Body ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

In the West, meditation has been particularly associated with Asian religions and seen as illustrative of the mystical nature of eastern culture. This chapter explores the impact of the colonial encounter between Europe and Asia. In this context, Asian meditative practices became abstracted from their traditional cosmological, ritualistic, and cultural contexts and reframed in terms of key conceptual binaries and assumptions deriving from modern Western culture. These include a Cartesian distinction between mind and body (with mind being associated with meditation and Buddhist mindfulness, and the body linked to “Hindu” yoga and its modern postural forms). Asian forms of meditation were translated according to a modern psychological framework and encountered in relation to the dichotomies between science and religion on the one hand and religious tradition and a de-traditionalized notion of spirituality on the other. The approaches taken in the Western encounter with Asian meditation tell us as much about the intellectual grooves of the modern Western episteme as they do about the Asian meditative traditions to which they relate.

Thinking Outside the Body: New Materialism and the Challenge of the Fetish

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Green
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
The Way

Fetishism has become such a key concept within Western thought, largely as a result of the work of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, that it is easy to forget its origins. But the notion of fetishism originates in a very different context, and in many ways, an incommensurable system of thought—animism. Returning to this submerged backstory, I deploy the concept of the fetish to confront the recent enthusiasm for materiality that has emerged in response to current environmental crises. New materialism considers matter to have a liveliness not dependent on human subjects. This paper considers what divides “vital materialism” from the “animist materialism” that continues to structure everyday experience in a range of contexts in Africa and elsewhere and investigates the way in which fetishism, within the intellectual tradition of animism, alerts us to the strange ephemeralness of the avowed materialism of the new materialist project.

scholarly journals An Autoethnography of Fat and Weight Loss: Becoming the Bw0 with Deleuze and Guattari

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie M Sheach Leith
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Fat Bodies ◽  
The Biggest Loser ◽  
Political Value

This article experiments with some of the insights provided by the work of Deleuze and Guattari as a move towards deterritorializing fat bodies. This is necessary because in contemporary Western society the fat [female] body is positioned and frequently experienced as lacking in social, cultural and political value and as being in need of surveillance and control, not least by the neo-liberal ‘self’. This article is a response to Deleuze and Guattari's plea to ‘think differently’, in this case about fat and weight loss. The article eschews the paradigmatic form of the traditional academic research paper, adopting a semi autoethnographic approach to present an analysis of my engagement with the Biggest Loser (diet) Club. Thinking through rather than about the body it focuses on embodied experiences of fat and the on-going process of cutting that body down to ‘normal’ size. By utilising two central concepts in Deleuzoguattarian thought – ‘becoming’ and the ‘body – without – organs’ (BwO) - I seek to demonstrate the embodied, theoretical and ethical potential of utilising Deleuze and Guattari's work to explore fat and weight loss and how this might productively serve to deterritorialize contemporary discourses which stigmatise fat bodies.

Stress Management through Yoga

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Serber
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Stress Reaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Physical Threat ◽  
Physical Functions

Stress is a common condition, a response to a physical threat or psychological distress, that generates a host of chemical and hormonal reactions in the body. In essence,the body prepares to fight or flee, pumping more blood to the heart and muscles and shutting down all nonessential functions. As a temporary state, this reaction serves the body well to defend itself. When the stress reaction is prolonged, however, the normal physical functions that have in response either been exaggerated or shut down become dysfunctional. Many have noted the benefits of exercise in diminishing the stress response,and a host of studies points to these benefits. Yoga, too,has been recommended and studied in relationship to sffess, although the studies are less scientifically replicable. Nonetheless, several researchers claim highly beneficial results from Yoga practice in alleviating stress and its effects. The practices recommended range from intense to moderate to relaxed asana sequences, along with pranayama and meditation. In all these approaches to dealing with stress, one common element stands out:The process is as important as the activity undertaken. Because it fosters self-awareness, Yoga is a promising approach for dealing with the stress response.

Resistance and Release in Yoga Practice

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Brian Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Stretch Reflex ◽  
The Body ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Teaching Intervention ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Usual Solution

Objectively, when the whole body is involved in active stretching, there is a strong tendency to overstretch what is already loose and understretch what is tight. The stretch reflex, which is the reflex shortening of muscles after stretching, will be activated. It will be most strongly activated in the most tense areas. This is counterproductive to the overall project Yoga of releasing the body. The usual solution is detailed teaching intervention so that stretching is more balanced throughout the body. But this just makes the whole process unnecessarily complicated. Also, stretching usually must be repeated daily to maintain flexibility because of the reactions of shortening that it predictably evokes. These are objective reasons for not stretching.

scholarly journals The Influence of Dualism and Pragmatism on Physical Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kudláček
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
The Body ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

The Influence of Dualism and Pragmatism on Physical EducationPhysical education is an area in which most professionals focus only on the body and its needs. Most PE teachers do not believe that having an understanding of philosophy is important in order to be a good teacher. One might ask why the physical educators think this. Looking at the history of philosophy we might find the answer within philosophy itself. Physical education is an unquestionable part of the school curriculum, but it does not have the same value as other subjects. The importance of PE is underestimated as school administrators stress the importance of academic subjects. The reason why physical education is so strongly separated from academic disciplines is because of its roots in ancient Greek times, when the soul was separated from the body. Medieval scholars stressed the importance of soul and cursed body as the nest of sins. From then on we have had dualism, a term which is widely adopted by western society. Dualism is so deep in us that we do not realize its impact any more. Other strong educational influence came from great thinkers such as: Comenius (1592-1670), Rousseau (1712-1778) and Dewey (1859-1952). Particularly Dewey's influence on American education, society, psychology, philosophy and way of life is significant. An importance of the experience is valued by Pragmatism. Pragmatists believe that the curriculum should be focused on the child and not on facts, they remind us about the role of education in society, and about the realization of the deep roots of division of our bodily and mental functions. The opportunities offered by the pragmatist's approach to education can help us to improve U.S. education, particularly physical education, and thus to use this to improve the state of American society.

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