Transcendental Meditation

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Treatments of ADHD Imagine a student in first grade who is always talking to another student and is always somewhere around their chair, but never in it. Imagine this student getting a note sent home for their poor behavior in class stating that they should be checked for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Now imagine their parent getting the note, going to the doctor and being told that their child has been diagnosed with ADHD. This parent now has…

prior to experiences as experiences can be deceiving. Descartes claims that knowledge drawn from sensory faculties are mere representations of the true thing, being “obscure and confused” due to our limited sensory faculties (Meditation VI). Only ideas…

In his final Remark to Sect. 13 of the Prolegomena, Kant distinguishes his transcendental idealism from the “empirical idealism of Descartes”. His paper intends to briefly account for both of these forms of idealism and subsequently investigate why Kant went to such great lengths to distance himself from Descartes's project. Descartes's “empirical idealism” In 'Meditations on First Philosophy', Descartes argues that the existence of objects in space outside of us cannot be proven by recourse…

Who tells her through song, “Listen with your heart, you will understand.” Both the Pocahontas’s individualism and great reverence for nature and the Willow’s guidance allude to Transcendental philosophy. Jon Krakauer’s novel, “Into The Wild”, also provides an example of transcendentalism. The film is based off a true account that occurred in 1995, of a student named Christopher McCandless, portrayed by Emile Hirsch. In the novel/film…

suppose to respect their wives because once they are married they cannot get a divorce. After the man raise his children he must retreat to the forest to focus on spiritual matters. Living in the forest they can only eat wild foods and practice meditation. The last stage is when the man wander alone to a holy site to practice yoga. People do all of this so when they leave from the world their atman will be reincarnated into something else…

67). The results of this analysis encourage further studies and from their perspective, meditation could prove to become an integral component of counseling by providing calmness, more assurance, increased awareness and strength, and enhanced clarity (Pruett et al., 2007, p. 62). A caveat with this article is that addiction requires more than meditation to address the issues associated with addiction (Pruett, et al., 2007, p.…

Triarchic theory of Intelligence given by Sternberg (1988), describes that SI involves combination of analytical, creative and practical abilities. Analytical abilities can be utilized in critical existential things, personal meaning production and transcendental awareness. Creative abilities may be employed in capacities to varying degree, while practical abilities would be included in adaptive applications of all capacities as well as conscious state expansion. “Existential Intelligence” was…

According to the Oxford Dictionary, yoga is defined as “a Hindu spiritual, and ascetic discipline, apart of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.” Yoga was first introduced in ancient India around the sixth and fifth century, and soon traveled westward by the late nineteenth and twentieth century. In Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, they all teach yoga as a “spiritual discipline” which are…

movement in Japan. Manipulationist sects seek worldly goals and do not withdraw from society; they do however seek spiritual means to be able to reach those worldly goals. Examples of Manipulationist sects are Deep Ecology, Scientology, Transcendental Meditation and Neo-Shamanism. Lastly, Utopian sects look towards the human reconstruction of the world on a communitarian basis and according to a certain divine plan in which evil is eliminated. Some examples are the Brüderhof communities and the…

that they are “more in my meditations, than you might suppose.” Here, Whitman shows that he is often thinking about the people around him. He continues by explaining the connection that he has with the crowd, with lines such as “These, and all else, were to me the same as they are to you” and…