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Body Image: Journal Articles Overview

to lose weight, media pressure to gain weight, and media pressure to increase muscle tone (McCabe et al, 2003). Both studi...

Quantum Healing: By Deepak Chopra

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

Vital Impact Neurotransmitters Have Upon Mind And Body

function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...

Therapeutic Massage Good For Mind And Body

fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...

The relationship between mind and body

say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism stat...

Tai Chi and Spirituality

beautiful, graceful Tai Chi movements (McMullen, n.d.). Tai Chi in general is thought to be a physical practice because there is t...

Impact Of Healthful Eating On Physical And Mental Processes

a day of nothing but McDonalds food. It was a matter of a few days before Spurlock began to realize a tangible change to his expa...

Descartes' Meditations: The Certainty of Truth

the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...

Answers to Some Questions on Psychology

the belief that low level physiological needs are more compelling in relation to behavior than higher level psychological needs, w...

Mind and Body Connection of Thomas Szasz

In five pages this research paper examines the correlation between the mind and body within the context of Dr. Thomas S. Szasz's T...

Analysis of Rene Descartes' Two Meditations

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

Homeopathic Philosophy Lectures of James Tyler Kent

In five pages this paper discusses how 'modern' man's ailments of the spirit, body, and mind can be cured by the beliefs contained...

Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

Dualism Between the Mind and Body

In five pages the dualism that exist between mind and body is considered in the works of Cornman, Smart, and Fodor. Three sources...

Intrinsic Association Between the Healing of the Body and Mind

-- that is, our need to rise above ourselves in order to see and respond to others needs. Listening to the body helps us to know ...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

Meditations on First Philosophy and the Logic of Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

Knowledge and First Truth According to Descartes' Meditations

This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...

Twenty First Century Critical Clinical Psychology Issues

discipline of psychology during the next century. One of his beliefs, based on past trends, is that psychology, as a field in gene...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

Discussing the First Meditation of Descartes

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

Healing the Body and Mind with Yoga

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...

History and Practice of Zen Meditation

beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...

How Exercise Delays Onset Of Dementia In Alzheimer's Patients: Literature Review

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

History of Vipassana Meditation

apply to all of them. First, in the Buddhist tradition, there is no charge for any part of the program. Hosts not only do not ch...

Present and Future Significance of Meditation

components of our existence. From a historical perspective meditation has played a tremendously important role even in the United...

Periodontal Disease

uncommon for this stage to go unnoticed inasmuch as "there is usually little or no discomfort" (American Academy of Periodontology...