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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...

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...

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...

Mind-Body Medicine

her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

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...

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...

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 ...

Nursing Values and Beliefs Defined

a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...

Philosophical Dilemmas of Mind and Body

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

The Mind in De Anima by Aristotle

a longer period of time, which serves to dilute the effectiveness of presence and the experiences intensity. With the sensation o...

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...

Illness and the Relationships Between Body, Mind, and Language

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

Cognitive Therapy With Iraq Veterans

therapy is a particularly useful approach in helping Iraqi war veterans deal with - and ultimately put aside - the intrusive prese...

Chopra/Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

string went from side-to-side and rotated when I thought or said the command, I could not make a thermometer to actually change te...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Periodontal Disease

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

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Contemporary Society and Body Image

In ten pages body image is considered in this overview and examines how culture and media influence body perception along with res...

Modification of the Body

In a paper consisting of 20 pages body modification is examined in terms of psychology and history with elective amputation, scari...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

Abbreviated Paper on Research Techniques

Genital Mutilation : A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide chronicles forty different cases of female genital mutilation, the ove...