Description: Taking some time to meditate can help your mind focus better and get rid of negative emotions. Find out how meditation can positively affect your mind and inner peace in this article. A loved one’s death, sudden unemployment, broken relationships — these are just some of the painful situations people around the world go […]
Meditation offers you an escape from reality, yielding so many amazing and miraculous benefits (EOC Institute, 2018). Meditation has been practiced for many years by almost all religions. While meditation can be used for religious reason, it is also practiced independently by many people as a psychotherapeutic technique. Psychotherapy uses psychological methods to help people […]
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Order nowPhilosophy of life constitutes a set of rules or principles that govern people’s decisions on matters involving their daily livelihoods. Philosophies of life guide people on what to do, how to do it, how they should be along with guiding them on many other things. People have lived according to such philosophies from time immemorial. […]
As I tried to think of an effective way to begin this research paper, I had a bit of a hard time connecting a vastly abstract concept (mindfulness and meditation) with the sometimes-rigid world of advanced practice nursing. In her article, “Health Benefits of Emptying the Mind: Rediscovering Meditation; Gloria Donnelly PhD, RN, FAAN, a […]
Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy presents to us the supposition that a God must exist, as derived from the pre-existing notion of an infinite being that is presumably embedded in the human mind. Despite his initial exhibition of Cartesian skepticism, Descartes finds that there must be three ideas of existence that can be assumable by […]
The Axial Age: the earliest written records of meditation come from the Hindu tradition of Vedantism around 1500 B.C.E. The Vedas discussed the ancient traditions of meditation which came from India. In the fifth and sixth century, B.C.E. meditation seems to develop other forms in Taoist China and Buddhist India. Dyhana in early Buddhism takes […]
This paper will be discussing how mindfulness and meditations have played a major part in evidence-based therapy. Mediation has been around for the past 100 hundred years and has been used in such religions as Hinduism and Buddhism. It is still being used today and therapist are incorporating Mindfulness as well. These two types of […]
Doubt is one of the underlying themes of Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. In the Meditations, Descartes discusses what can be called into doubt and provides reasoning for the false things he believes to have thought in his lifetime. Descartes’ first meditation deals with general skepticism, the theory that certain knowledge is impossible, and discusses […]
I have always seen the buddha statue in places all across the world while travelling and I never had an understanding of what it really means. What’s the culture and story behind it? The reason I picked this for my cultural artifact is because I’ve always seen the Himalayas in documentaries and have associated the […]
Buddha which means enlightened one or the awakened is the titled conferred to Siddhartha Gautama. It is believed that he lived in Nepal between the sixth and fourth centuries. During that time, he tried different teachings but could not find any that was acceptable to him. One night while in meditation, he found the answers […]
Siddhartha is a fictional character created by Herman Hesse, but that name is also the name of Buddha before he became enlightened. Siddhartha was known as a rich, intelligent and good-looking man in town he lived in. Despite being seen as someone with intellectual prowess he left home because he was not content with what […]
Buddhism is one of the most privilege religions, spread throughout Vietnam, China, Japan and most parts of Asia. Buddhism has opened a door for many people to practice mindfulness especially the right way to meditate to relieve the stress and help them forgive that past or things that shouldn’t be on their mind. Buddha has […]
Every religion is different. They all do the things they do for different reasons. Buddhism is no exception to this. Catherine Albanese’s definition of religion is “A system of symbols (creed, code, cults) and by means of which people (community) orient themselves in the world with reference to both ordinary and extra ordinary values, powers, […]
In the book “Sacred Hoops” by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, it talks about different forms of leadership from working as a team to developing new strategies that no other coach would have done. First, I will give a basic summary about the book. Next, the paper will transition into two main topics: the use […]
