Sökning: "meditation analysis"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden meditation analysis.

  1. 1. Mindfullness and meditation experience in relation to attention performance and psychological well-being among meditators and non-meditators

    Författare :Torbjörn Josefsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; attention; Buddism; meditation analysis; meditation; mindfulness; psychological well-being;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this research project was to study mindfulness and its relation to attention and psychological well-being. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the construct of mindfulness and the mental health benefits associated with mindfulness based programmes, the relation between mindfulness and its proposed core component, self-regulation of attention, was studied. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Effects of Meditation on Respiration and the Temporal Lobes : An Exploratory and Meta-Analytic Study

    Författare :Yvonne Petersson Bouin; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Personality; Cognition; Emotions; Deconditioning; Amygdala; Temporal lobes; Carbon dioxide; Meditation; Respiration; Meta-analysis; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : Two assertions made by the Eastern meditation traditions were investigated: (a) breath regulation is a prerequisite for attaining altered states of consciousness, (b) meditation leads to changes in cognitive processes and in personality. A deconditioning process was conceptualized involving the temporal lobes and the amygdala. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Inner Experience : An Analysis of Scientific Experience in Early Modern Germany

    Författare :Andreas Rydberg; Mats Persson; Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell; Kristiina Savin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; scientific experience; inner experience; inner senses; living experience; psychometrics; psychological experiments; cultura animi; spiritual exercise; meditation; aesthetics; Pietism; Enlightenment; Christian Wolff; Hermann Francke; Alexander Baumgarten; Georg Ernst Stahl; Friedrich Hoffmann; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : In the last decades a number of studies have shed light on early modern scientific experience. While some of these studies have focused on how new facts were forced out of nature in so-called experimental situations, others have charted long-term transformations. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Mindfulness : Relations to attention regulation, decentering, and psychological well-being

    Författare :Torbjörn Josefsson; Anders Broberg; Harald Walach; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; attention; buddhism; decentering; mediation analysis; meditation; mindfulness; psychological well-being;

    Sammanfattning : The current research project consists of three separate studies. The general aim of this project was to contribute to previous mindfulness research by exploring fundamental aspects of mindfulness in an effort to increase the understanding of mindfulness as a construct as well as its mechanisms. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Godis för kropp och själ" : Välbefinnande och vardagsandlighet i tre svenska kvinnotidningar

    Författare :Anneli Winell; Mia Lövheim; Anders Sjöborg; Pål Repstad; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :women s magazines; everyday religion; spirituality; religious change; deregulation of religion; mediatization; individualization; commersialisation; glossy-feminism ; equality; yoga; meditation; structure and agency; content analysis; reception study; Sweden; Religionssociologi; Sociology of Religion;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses discourses on health and wellbeing in three Swedish lifestyle magazines for women, Amelia, Tara and M-magasin, and how readers of these magazines reflect on and negotiate the values and identities presented in them. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to increased knowledge about mediatized religion, directed to women by commercial women's magazines on a secular market, and how this religion is presented, perceived and used as a resource for women's wellbeing, lifestyle and identity. LÄS MER