AARN: Psychological & Subjective Experience (Sub-Topic)最新文献

{"title":"Living With Ease: A Psychological View","authors":"Dr. Vishalakshi Honnakatti","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3586340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3586340","url":null,"abstract":"“When we are relaxed and happy, there is a gentle rhythm back and forth between the two branches [of the nervous system], undulating between automatic charge and discharge, and between arousal and relaxation. This gentle rhythm gives us a sense of well-being and success in managing our lives.” - Gina Ross, Beyond the Trauma Vortex, Into the Healing Vortex. Living with ease doesn’t mean sleeping late every day, becoming a beach bum, or forgetting the responsibilities. Although these may be helpful short term practices to balance over-exertion. living with ease requires a delicate balance that includes both relaxation and alertness. If over-relaxed on a regular basis that will slump into sleepiness or inertia. If being too alert, is felt wound up and ready to snap. Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ease living the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis.<br><br>Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area, usually a country. The standard of living includes factors such as income, quality and availability of employment, class disparity, poverty rate, quality and affordability of housing, hours of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product, inflation rate, amount of leisure time every year, affordable (or free) access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education, life expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services, infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate and safety. The standard of living is closely related to quality of life <br><br>Every individual varies in terms of the amount of stimulation he or she needs, wants, or can tolerate. The same goes for relaxation. Living with ease means finding one’s own sweet spot, which blends a good mix of serenity with a sense of being awake in the world.","PeriodicalId":427883,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Psychological & Subjective Experience (Sub-Topic)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132020674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness","authors":"Wenge Huang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3438916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3438916","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that meditation as the primary method of Buddhist practices, is essentially to induce altered states of consciousness (ASC) and then take advantage of some characteristics in ASC to attain enlightenment.<br><br>Our study starts from summarizing four essential phenomena (hallucinations, paranormal phenomena, mystical experiences and enhanced awareness) in ASC. In a previous paper, we have proposed an original model to reveal the formation mechanism of different states of hallucinations and suggested that paranormal phenomena such as extrasensory perception are simply illusions that happen along with deep hallucinations.<br><br>Mystical experiences occur in Samatha. Based on the experiential description, it can be inferred that the essence of Samatha is perception shutting down to activate a new mode of apperceiving, one totally different from the usual five sense mode of perception. Hallucinations also disappear because perception shuts down.<br><br>Enhanced awareness is highly emphasized in this paper. In ordinary conditions, perception has a natural threshold for its sensitivity for the purpose of biological survival. But in ASC, awareness becomes more sensitive because the perception-filtering function gets weakened to allow the influx of more details, making the deep insight of the five skandhas possible, just like watching a slow-motion film. This means that, different from the common sense, the physiological basis of Buddhist Vipassana is not the greater concentration or more tranquility, but enhanced awareness in ASC.<br><br>Furthermore, we introduce time dimension by putting forward that there are three stages in ASC: the process of loss of the self, the obliteration of the self and the process of recovery of the self. Although enhanced awareness appears since the first stage, the simultaneous hallucinations may interfere with it, making Vipassana impossible in this stage. Samatha happens in the second stage and most past materials focus on how to get rid of deep hallucinations to achieve Samatha in this stage. A close study of experiential descriptions of coming out of Samatha demonstrates that, for some unknown reasons, hallucinations would be temporally inhibited after Samatha, making enhanced awareness work fine in the third stage. Thus, the relationship between Buddhist tranquility and insight is brought to light: Vipassana after Samatha is the path toward liberation. Buddha didn’t attain enlightenment after achieving the fourth jhana and even the highest formless jhana, until he discovered this point six years later.<br>","PeriodicalId":427883,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Psychological & Subjective Experience (Sub-Topic)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117115023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptual Framework of Social Adaptation","authors":"V. Terziev, S. Dimitrova, Evgeniy Stoyanov, E. Arabska","doi":"10.18769/IJASOS.531317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18769/IJASOS.531317","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, originating from the understanding and approaches to the term „adaptation“, explores and analyses the stages of the social adaptation process of military personnel, discharged from service, which along with getting to know the psychological and professional aspects of the process allows the elaboration of a practical model of social and psychological adaptation of this population category. The scientific aspirations of the authors of this paper are focused on the specific characteristics of military service and the specific competences, which require the implementation of specific methods and means of professional orientation, preparation for settling and acquiring a new profession in the changed living environment.","PeriodicalId":427883,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Psychological & Subjective Experience (Sub-Topic)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122209864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}