Concept of Manasa Prakruti as described in Charaka Samhita

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Sachin S. Bagali ◽  
Umapati C. Baragi
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Relative Dominance ◽  
Appropriate Therapy ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Genetically Determined

Ayurveda has a unique specialty of holistic approach and includes all the factors which are necessary for maintenance of health. Trigunas are essential drives of the mind which differentiate individuals on the basisof their psychological constitution. Genetically determined, these psychological characteristics are dependent on the relative dominance of the three Gunas. Manasa Prakruti features pertain to the mind and mental activities of the person. Due to their resemblance in qualities to that of almighty god, names were designated accordingly. Totally 16 types of Manasika Prakruti are described in Charaka Samhita. After proper understanding of Satwa Prakruti one should initiate appropriate therapy. Maha Prakruti’s are those which manifests due to influence of Satva, Raja and Tama and knowledge of the constitution is very much essential. Three types of psyche are described to be born from virtue, anger and delusion these are said to be superior, medium and inferior respectively. Seven, Six and three respectively are said to be the types of these psyche. To prescribe medicines, knowledge of this is essential.

scholarly journals On the nature and role of Consciousness: is it time to move towards a metaphilosophical and metascientific approach?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRICO FACCO ◽  
Fabio Fracas ◽  
Silvano Tagliagambe ◽  
Patrizio Tressoldi
Keyword(s):  
Anthropic Principle ◽  
First Person ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Common Field

The main aim of this paper is to support a metaphilosophical and metascientific approach to the study of Consciousness.After a brief historical resume of the debate between the mind-brain-body relationship, we discuss how the apparently irreducible contention between a physicalist and an anti-physicalist interpretation of Consciousness can be overcome by a metaphilosophic and metascientific approach in the attempt to overcome ethnocentric cultural filters and constraints yielded by the Weltanschauung and the Zeitgeist one belongs to. IN fact, a metaphilosophical perspective can help to recognize key concepts and meanings common to different philosophies beyond their formal differences and different modes of theorization, where the common field of reflection is aimed to find the problem’s unity in the multiplicity of forms. Likewise, the metascientific approach, such as the anthropic principle adopted in astrophysics, helps overcoming the problems of indecidability of single axiomatic disciplines.A metaphilosophical and metascientific approach seems appropriate in the study of consciousness and subjective phenomena, since the first-person perspective and the meaning of the experience are the condition sine qua non for their proper understanding.

Imperium Romanum: Empire and the Language of Power

1991 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Italian Fascism ◽  
The Mind

The vocabulary of empire, as it has developed in European contexts since the period of the Roman empire, reveals clearly enough the significance of the inheritance of Rome for the regimes which have followed it. From Charlemagne to the Tsars, from British imperialism to Italian Fascism, the language and symbols of the Roman republic and the Roman emperors have been essential elements in the self-expression of imperial powers. Such communality of language, by creating a sense of familiarity in the mind of a modern observer of the Roman empire, may hinder a proper understanding of antiquity, because the importance of the after life of these words and symbols tends to obscure the nature of the contexts from which they originated. An obvious parallel instance can be seen in the case of the word ‘democracy’, where the adoption of the Athenian term to describe a series of political developments in the modern world which claim some connection with the Greek notion of demokratia has tended to make more difficult the modern understanding of what happened at Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

An introduction to the scientific problem of the “mind wandering” phenomenon

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-297
Author(s):  
M.V. Ivanov ◽  
K.A. Bagrationi
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
Laboratory Conditions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
The Mind

The problem of the “wandering mind” phenomenon is considered in an interdisciplinary perspective. We provide evidence that the “wandering mind” is the cause of attention errors when performing cognitive tasks, both in laboratory conditions and in professional and daily activities. We show the role of “wandering mind” in the modeling of personal psychological future. According D. Kahneman’s conceptual views on the thinking nature, the “wandering mind” is a prerequisite of appearance of creative ways to solve ambiguous problems (“creative insight”) in the process of thinking. Based on the B.F. Lomov’s methodological conception, we reveal the need for considering the problem of “wandering mind” along with socio-psychological characteristics of a group (such as, for example, incorporativity), which includes subjects that are in the described condition.

A rationale for evolutionary studies of literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Evolutionary Studies ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Genetically Determined ◽  
By Products ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

I identify converging lines of evidence for the proposition that the human mind has evolved, argue that the evolved character of the mind influences the products of the mind, including literature, and conclude that scholarly and scientific commentary on literature would benefit from being explicitly lodged within an evolutionary conceptual framework. I argue that a biocultural perspective has comprehensive scope and can encompass all the topics to which other schools of literary theory give attention. To support this contention, I appeal to axiomatic logic: the behavior of any organism is a result of interactions between its genetically determined characteristics and its environmental influences. Summarizing the debate over the adaptive function of literature, I argue that literature and its oral antecedents are adaptations, not merely by-products of adaptations.

Medicine and the Mind

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhodri Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
North America ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
The Mind

History maintains an ambiguous role with regard to the mind sciences. It can be used to demonstrate the universality of psychological characteristics, capacities, and illnesses or it can serve to demonstrate their relative bases by revealing the implicit assumptions that guide modern research as well as the specific configurations of theory, practice, and technology that allowed the mind sciences to emerge and their subject-matter to be articulated. This article embraces this second approach. It outlines four broad constructions of the psyche — the inscribable, the historical, the adaptable, and the statistical — and shows how their articulation has made possible new kinds of self-understanding and social interaction. It also makes broad claims for the universal basis of psychological phenomena. This discussion focuses on the specific conceptions of mental medicine that have emerged in Europe and North America since the end of the eighteenth century. This psychological language makes possible our modern experience of mind, self, and mental illness.

A GLIMPSE ON PSYCHIATRY IN AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE A REVIEW ON CHARAKA SAMHITA

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Kshirabdhi Tanaya Rautaray ◽  
Shiva Prasad Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Treatment Method ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
The Mind

Mental health is an essential &integrative part of health. It is the foundation for well being and effective functioning of individuals. The present world is slowly getting consumed by mental health issues every day, with millions are ghting their own battle in trying to survive. Burden of mental disorders has risen over last few decades. Currently mental and behavioral disorders account for about 13% of global burden of the disease. Mental disorders are among the leading causes of non-fatal diseases burden in India, but a systematic understanding of their prevalence, disease burden &risk factors is not readily available now. If we evaluate developments in the eld of mental health, the pace appears to be slow. Raising awareness and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health is necessary for addressing the situation. Ayurveda has its own identity as most ancient and traditional system of medicine. Being a holistic science, Ayurveda explores the symbiotic relationship among the mind, body, soul, the senses and their working. The holistic approach of Ayurveda signicantly results as a complementary treatment method to Allopathic in various mental disorders. Hence an effort is made by the author for understanding the evolution of various mental issues by exposition of the concepts as per Ayurvedic and Modern perspective related to psyche and scientic exploration of the holistic approach of Ayurveda towards the mental health related issues

Psychotherapist/Dramatherapist, 10 years’ experience, Greece

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-120
Author(s):  
Markus Reuber ◽  
Gregg H. Rawlings ◽  
Steven C. Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Epileptic Seizures ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Conversion Disorder ◽  
Eeg Monitoring ◽  
Psychological Method ◽  
The Mind ◽  
First Time ◽  
Video Eeg ◽  
Over Time

This chapter describes the experience of a Psychotherapist/Dramatherapist when working in a Neuropsychiatry department. It was there that the Psychotherapist met patients with Conversion Disorder for the first time and worked with them and others who were undergoing video-EEG monitoring for unexplained attacks, fits, or seizures. These experiences, among many others, have gradually led the Psychotherapist to create “Metamyth,” a psychological method uniquely suitable for the treatment of people with epilepsy. Metamyth for people with Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES) adopts a different approach to that used with epilepsy. As a holistic approach, Metamyth is interested in the mind, body, soul and intuition, and communication. Considerable patience is needed to understand the complexity of each patient with NES and for the diagnosis to reveal itself over time.

scholarly journals An Ayurvedic Critical Review on Nutritional Deficiency Disorders in Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Singhade Sapna Raoji ◽  
Lanjewar Swati Rajkumar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Nutritional Deficiency ◽  
The Body ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Under Nutrition ◽  
Therapeutic Value ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Positive Effect

Ayurveda has two basic aims i.e., first preventive aspect rather than curative method. Aahara (food) plays very important role to maintain health of a person as it is one of the three sub pillars (Tri-upastambha) of Ayurveda. Aahara is the main source of energy and nutrition, also with therapeutic value and most important during post treatment period to regain the strength of body. Aahara not only nourishes the body but also nurtures the mind and soul, hence it is called as Poornabramha and Aahara-sevana (eating food) considered as a ritual in Ayurveda. Nutrition is always a basic and essential part for mankind. It has also positive effect on growth and development with cognitive function in children. Various health problems can be prevented through nutritious diet. Malnutrition generally refers both to under nutrition and over nutrition diseases. Nutritional deficiency disorders are described in various Ayurvedic texts which can be correlated with Apatarpanajanya Vyadhis. Various Acharya of Ayurveda described diseases such as Phakka, Parigarbhika, Balashosha, Karshya etc in different Samhitas can also correlated to nutritional deficiency disorders. A critical review of these disorders provides different aspects of malnutrition and proper understanding of pathogenesis in terms of Dosha - Dushya which will give a valuable key for their effective management. This paper highlights the Ayurvedic review of nutritional deficiency related disorders in children

Ecological Change and Distribution in Southern African Rangelands

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Arntzen
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Rangeland Management ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Livelihood Security ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Hunting And Gathering ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Sustainable Productivity

This article examines the ecological changes occurring in southern African range-lands-how such changes affect rangeland uses, and what the distributional consequences may be. There can be little doubt that rangeland ecosystems undergo rapid change, especially in terms of vegetation and fauna and to a lesser extent of erosion. Such changes are associated with the trend towards single-sector (livestock) rangeland use with adverse impacts on hunting and gathering. The poor are worst affected because degradation increases their risks – given the limited adaptation options at their disposal-and reduces their livelihood security. For a proper understanding of rangelands, a holistic approach covering all major uses and resources, is needed. Total sustainable productivity per hectare and per household become key parameters for sustainable rangeland management.

John Galsworthy's Conscience and First World War Disablement

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-169
Author(s):  
Jill Felicity Durey
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Prosthetic Limbs ◽  
Human Animal Bond ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The Mind ◽  
First World

The article traces, from a literary perspective, John Galsworthy's (1867–1933) conscience in his fictional depictions and non-fictional discussions of those damaged and disabled by World War One. It notes that, for the duration of the War, Galsworthy was tireless in his writing crusade on topics relating to the hostilities, but fell silent on these matters after the War, when he returned to his much broader range of topics. Through its references to both narratives and essays, the article demonstrates Galsworthy's strong advocacy for restoring disabled men to dignified work and self-respect, whereby they can continue to fulfil their vital masculine role in society, including their romantic life. As is shown in the article, Galsworthy believed that this restorative period could involve re-training for more challenging work than men had undertaken before the War. The article stresses Galsworthy's holistic approach to men's restoration in his constant reminder to the nation that, for this to take place, both the mind and the body need equally to be healed. While adequate resources were needed for rehabilitation requiring training establishments and technology for prosthetic limbs, often the most effective psychological restoration entailed no funds at all, especially when it encompassed therapy through women's beauty and through the human-animal bond. The article includes Galsworthy's wider focus, too, on civilian adults and children who were wounded and disabled by the War. It also compares Galsworthy's views on rehabilitation and healing with those of modern commentators, and illustrates how, for his time, some of his ideas were particularly advanced.

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