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Modalities of Self Care and Holistic Nursing

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

Evaluating Childbirth Pain Management Alternative Proposal

drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...

Rene Fortunato's Film The Power of the General

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Surrealism

The writer discusses the artistic school known as surrealism and the characteristics of this form, as well as its influence. The w...

Meditation Value, Zen Buddhism, and Martin Heidegger

In nine pages this paper considers Zen Buddhism and Heidegger's teaching in a discussion of how meditation and its value relates t...

Benefits of Meditation

In three pages this research paper examines creative visualization, channeling, Shamanic Journeying, and T'ai Chi practices of med...

Western Medicine and Metaphysical Medicine

In forty five pages this paper presents a literature review in which the incorporation of eastern medical practices including t'ai...

Buddhist Meditation Practices Known as Vippassana and Samatha

In eight pages this report contrasts and compares these various types of Buddhist meditation practices. Seven sources are cited i...

Transcending Daily Life Through Meditation

In one page this paper examines how daily life can be transcended through meditation with the Buddhist example of Prince Siddharth...

Practices of Meditation

In fourteen pages this report considers meditation practices in an assessment of its spiritual impact, benefits, and effectiveness...

Nursing and Elderly Pain Management Strategy

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...

Four Noble Truths, Meditation, and Buddhism

In two pages the Four Noble Truths and how meditation fits into these beliefs are discussed in an examination of Buddhism, with th...

Meditation Benefits

at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future. W...

Altered States of Consciousness, A Personal Account

This paper provides the student with an example essay that describes the writer's personal experience in regards to dreaming, dayd...

Savannah, Tybee Island and Meditation

demands of the world, which are often overwhelming, and get back in touch with their inner selves. This paper is not a "how to" es...

Reaction Paper to Rosenthal's Transcendence and Healing

basis, he reports that it enabled him to achieve a state that can only be described as transcendence, as TM, at this point in his ...

Aurelius and Augustine

parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...

Goal of Meditation in the Buddhist Tradition

leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

PSYCHOLOGY AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...

Analysis of Meditation on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Eldridge Cleaver

In eight pages Cleaver's text is analyzed in the context of the racial tensions that existed then and now. There are no other sou...

Meditation and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

of psychology as well as the evolution of practice" (Resnick, 1997, p. 463). Psychology as a discipline has come to be an e...

Meditations

controlling his temper, modesty, and manliness, he learned piety, abstinence, and how to live simply "far removed from the habits ...

Sample Thesis Proposal on the Relationship Between Psychotherapy and Buddhist Practices of Meditation

disorders respond especially well to meditation as it lowers the levels of serotonin (stress hormone) in the bodys system. Other s...

Principles in Aurelius' The Meditations

fate, so sometimes it is hard to resign to a certain outcome. At the same time, there is the serenity prayer used in modern times ...

Overview of Meditation

consciousness where the mind is not aware of anything in particular. During mediation, breathing slows and practitioners tend to p...

Philosophy and On Independent Thought Q and A

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....