Climate change, wellbeing, and carbon
The Schwartzreport tracks emerging trends that will affect the world, particularly the United States. For EXPLORE it focuses on matters of health in the broadest sense of that term, including medical issues, changes in the biosphere, technology, and policy considerations, all of which will shape our culture and our lives. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 31, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Stephan A. Schwartz Source Type: research
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Source: Explore - October 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Tags: Letters Source Type: research
The shock of charlottesville: unmasking racism in healthcare
As I write, America is on edge following a violent confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12 August between white supremacists and Nazi supporters on one side and counter-protestors on the other. The proximate cause of this mayhem was a disagreement about whether a public statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee should be removed. Banners of Nazi swastikas, Confederate flags, and KKK symbols were carried by torch-toting protestors in common cause. Shouts such as “white lives matter” and “Jews will not replace us” erupted from the protestors. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Larry Dossey Tags: Explorations Source Type: research
Letters
Dear Editors, (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Bonnie Horrigan Tags: Letters Source Type: research
Uc irvine receives $200 million grant for integrative medicine
The University of California, Irvine recently received the largest gift in its history: $200 million from Susan and Henry Samueli, to name a first-of-its-kind College of Health Sciences focused on interdisciplinary integrative health. The Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences will be the first university-based health sciences enterprise to incorporate integrative health research, teaching and patient care across its schools and programs. The existing Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine will become the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute and will focus on improving medical care by supporting mu...
Source: Explore - October 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Bonnie Horrigan Tags: Matters of Note Source Type: research
Intentions: A Major Source of Outcomes
As we engage in mindfulness meditation, or in other inward-looking practices such as self-reflection or contemplative prayer, we gradually become aware of the deeper aspects of ourselves and how those aspects affect the reality in which we live. One of those aspects – our intentions — plays a significant role in our effectiveness as a leader. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Bonnie Horrigan Tags: Voices Source Type: research
Implementation of a Mindfulness Moment Initiative for Healthcare Professionals: Perceptions of Facilitators
Mindfulness practices in the workplace have experienced rapid growth, with initial evidence suggesting positive outcomes. Even so, little is known about implementing mindfulness-based interventions (MBI), especially internally driven programs led by volunteers rather than experts. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 25, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Karen Duggan, Kell Julliard Tags: Orinal research Source Type: research
Implementation of a Mindfulness Moment Initiative for Health Care Professionals: Perceptions of Facilitators
Mindfulness practices in the workplace have experienced rapid growth, with initial evidence suggesting positive outcomes. Even so, little is known about implementing mindfulness-based interventions (MBI), especially internally driven programs led by volunteers rather than experts. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 25, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Karen Duggan, Kell Julliard Source Type: research
Mind –Matter Interactions and the Frontal Lobes of the Brain: A Novel Neurobiological Model of Psi Inhibition
Despite a large literature on psi, which encompasses a range of experiences including putative telepathy (mind –mind connections), clairvoyance (perceiving distant objects or events), precognition (perceiving future events), and mind–matter interactions, there has been insufficient focus on the brain in relation to this controversial phenomenon. In contrast, our research is based on a novel neurobiologic al model suggesting that frontal brain systems act as a filter to inhibit psi and that the inhibitory mechanisms may relate to self-awareness. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Morris Freedman, Malcolm Binns, Fuqiang Gao, Melissa Holmes, Austyn Roseborough, Stephen Strother, Antonino Vallesi, Stanley Jeffers, Claude Alain, Peter Whitehouse, Jennifer D. Ryan, Robert Chen, Michael D. Cusimano, Sandra E. Black Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Functional MRI Study to Examine Possible Emotional Connectedness in Identical Twins: A Case Study
In the present case study, we investigated possible emotional connectedness between monozygotic twins by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During the experimental condition, Twin 2 was randomly selected to participate in the neuroimaging protocol while Twin 1 participated in the experimental condition outside the MRI scanner (none of them was aware of the experimental procedure). The experimental condition included two sessions with visual and acoustic stimuli, respectively. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Efstratios Karavasilis, Foteini Christidi, Kalliopi Platoni, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Nikolaos L. Kelekis, Efstathios P. Efstathopoulos Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
Feasibility of a 6-month yoga program to improve the physical and psychosocial status of persons with multiple sclerosis and their family members
To the best of our knowledge, there has been no study on yoga that includes both persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and their family members. Because yoga has therapeutic effects in both persons with MS and healthy persons, we hypothesized that it would be an effective method to improve not only the physical and psychosocial status but also the time persons with MS and their family members spend together. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Turhan Kahraman, Asiye Tuba Ozdogar, Pinar Yigit, Ilknur Hosgel, Zaur Mehdiyev, Ozge Ertekin, Serkan Ozakbas Source Type: research
A systematic review of transcendent states across meditation and contemplative traditions
Across cultures and throughout history, transcendent states achieved through meditative practices have been reported. The practices to attain transcendent states vary from transcendental meditation to yoga to contemplative prayer, to other various forms of sitting meditation. While these transcendent states are ascribed many different terms, those who experience them describe a similar unitive, ineffable state of consciousness. Despite the common description, few studies have systematically examined transcendent states during meditation. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Helan é Wahbeh, Amira Sagher, Wallis Back, Pooja Pundhir, Frederick Travis Source Type: research
Functional mri study to examine possible emotional connectedness in identical twins: a case st udy
In the present case study, we investigated possible emotional connectedness between monozygotic twins by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During the experimental condition, twin 2 was randomly selected to participate in the neuroimaging protocol while twin 1 participated in the experimental condition outside the MRI scanner (none of them was aware of the experimental procedure). The experimental condition included two sessions with visual and acoustic stimuli, respectively. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Efstratios Karavasilis, Foteini Christidi, Kalliopi Platoni, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Nikolaos L. Kelekis, Efstathios P. Efstathopoulos Source Type: research
Can mindfulness training improve medication adherence? integrative review of the current evidence and proposed conceptual model
Medication adherence is a complex, multi-determined behavior that is often influenced by system- (e.g., cost), drug- (e.g., regimen complexity), and patient-related (e.g., depression) factors. System-level approaches (e.g., making medications more affordable) are critically important but do not address patient-level factors that can undermine adherence. In this paper, we identify patient-level determinants of non-adherence and discuss whether mindfulness-training approaches that target these determinants can help to improve adherence to medical treatment. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, Michael P. Carey Source Type: research
Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain: a novel neurobiological model of psi inhibition
Despite a large literature on psi, which encompasses a range of experiences including putative telepathy (mind-mind connections), clairvoyance (perceiving distant objects or events), precognition (perceiving future events), and mind-matter interactions, there has been insufficient focus on the brain in relation to this controversial phenomenon. In contrast, our research is based on a novel neurobiological model suggesting that frontal brain systems act as a filter to inhibit psi and that the inhibitory mechanisms may relate to self-awareness. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - October 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Morris Freedman, Malcolm Binns, Fuqiang Gao, Melissa Holmes, Austyn Roseborough, Stephen Strother, Antonino Vallesi, Stanley Jeffers, Claude Alain, Peter Whitehouse, Jennifer D. Ryan, Robert Chen, Michael D. Cusimano, Sandra E. Black Source Type: research
