The Applications of Mindfulness Techniques in Management of Borderline Personality Disorder | Chapter 8 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 5

Many biopsychosocial models of borderline personality disorder (BPD) center on emotion dysregulation, which is frequently addressed in the psychosocial therapies that are linked to the management of disorder. For those with BPD diagnoses, a number of different specialized psychotherapies are believed to be helpful, but it's uncertain if they have similar changing mechanisms. Many psychotherapies include mindfulness as a component. However, its usefulness in the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is still unclear. The purpose of the concern study is to examine the effect of mindfulness practices in management of borderline personality disorder incorporating with medication. A sample of 50 borderline old patients [clinical diagnosis having the borderline personality disorder (BPD) severity score more than 20 points on [BPDSI] was purposively selected for the study. The patients were given the regular medication incorporating the mindfulness exercises. After 6 months, the symptoms were checked through mental health checklist. A mental health checklist was administered through professionals before and after incorporating the mindfulness with the medication. Study revealed that most commonly improved symptoms were affective instability, inappropriate anger, and feeling of emptiness. Kundalini Yoga (64%) and Sudarshan Kriya (58%) were proved most effective mindfulness practices in decreasing the symptoms of BPD. The study revealed that mindfulness practices have a vast impact in decreasing the symptoms of BPD, while incorporating with medications. The author of this article also addressed several mindfulness techniques that have been shown to be more successful in symptom reduction. They also aim to advocate for the inclusion of mindfulness training in helping professions such as social work courses. Professionals are including mindfulness meditation trainings into their treatment regimens these days since it promotes physical and mental stability. Training of mindfulness/meditation is a requirement of social work practice nowadays. It could be valuable in social work education to explore their own thinking, to evaluate their own personality traits and behavioral patterns. These practices naturally enhance creativity and imagination.

Author(s) Details:

Mamta Trichal,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Pradeep Kumar,
Psychiatric Social Work, State Institute of Mental Health, PT., B. D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

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The Third Chapter of Yoga Sūtras: A Problematic Text with a Discussion of Powers | Chapter 1 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 2

The aim of this study is to discuss the problematic nature of the third chapter of the Yoga Sutras. An early discussion of the importance of ascetic powers in the West was offered by Charles Rockwell Lanman of Harvard University in 1917 for the American Philological Association. Because the Yoga Sūtras compiled by Patañjali devote one entire chapter to siddhas (powers) in a text of only four chapters this has caused scholars to offer various reasons for this problematic aspect of the text. After critically reviewing the opinions of scholars with respect to the imbalance in the text to understand Patañjali’s decision, this essay places the text within the historical context of asceticism in India in order to grasp developments that might have shaped the compiler’s mind. The historical development of asceticism in India was also accompanied by many narratives that stressed the importance of ascetic powers and helped to shape Patañjali’s decision to make a quarter of his text about powers, even though these powers were acknowledged to be a hindrance to an aspirant’s final goal.

Around the fourth century CE, the legendary Patañjali, compiler of the Yoga Sūtras, collected elements associated with ascetic practices in order to serve as a guidebook for others. In his attempt to bring unity to the various pre-existing yogic traditions, Patañjali gathered together various elements into aphoristic, cryptic, and esoteric statements (sūtras) that lent themselves more to remembrance and oral transmission. Because the text was incomprehensible, it invited commentaries from authorities with the intention of rendering the text comprehensible to the uninitiated. The Yoga Sūtras consisted of four parts with about three-quarters of the text focusing on technique and the third part of the text concerned with powers gained by yogis practicing the various disciplines. Hence a quarter of the text was concerned with these various supernatural powers called in the introduction to chapter three vibhūtis, but called siddhas in the remainder of the chapter.

According to the contents of the Yoga Sūtras and its third chapter, these powers include the ability to know, for example, the past and future, awareness of past rebirths, ability to read the mind of another person, awareness of the approach of one’s death, intuiting the location of hidden objects, and intuiting the presence of the puruṣa (self). These are examples of cognitive (jñāna) powers. Powers (Siddhas) that are more physical in nature include, for instance, the ability for a yogi to become invisible, have the strength of an elephant, ability to enter the body of another person, levitation, acute hearing, the ability to fly, become disembodied, and gain a perfected body. These various forms of mental and physical powers also find their way into Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives that will be illustrated later in this essay.

A reader of the Yoga Sūtras is informed that these powers are a result of practicing the final three parts (samyama) of the path to liberation that begins with concentration (dhāranā) and includes meditation (dhyāna), and absorption (samādhi), and all major commentators agree that the various powers are results of practicing yoga, and are not the goal of the yogic path. In addition, practitioners are warned not to become attached to the powers gained by yogis because they are a trap that keeps a yogi attached to the world. Nonetheless, within the context of a “how to manual,” it is curious that an entire quarter of the book is devoted to powers (siddhas). Patañjali obviously considered the acquisition of powers to be an essential aspect of the yogic path. This apparent oddity of the text has puzzled scholars, and various attempts have been made by scholars of yoga to attempt to make sense of this feature of the text. This essay proposes to reconsider and attempt to understand what might have motivated Patañjali to devote an entire chapter of his four-chapter text to the subject of yogic powers. To meet this purpose of the essay, it is advisable to review interpretations of these powers by different scholars and then to place these powers into their historical context. Thirdly, examples of yogis/ascetics using powers in various narratives will be included because these stories are part of the cultural milieu in which Patañjali worked on the text. Because the yogi has been an ascetic figure traditionally in Indian culture, I have used the terms yogi and ascetic interchangeably.

Author(s) Details:

Carl Olson,
Allegheny College, USA.

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Fundamentals of Yoga Meditation: Physical and Mental Benefits | Chapter 7 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 5

Yoga is a psycho-somatic-spiritual discipline for achieving union and harmony between our mind, body, and soul and the ultimate union of our individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. There are certain elements of meditation which should be achieved before sitting for meditation and are described. Transcendental meditation (TM) is one of the techniques of meditation, which involves allowing the mind to dwell on a series of words (called a mantra) given by the meditation teacher, with no effort. If the attention wanders it is allowed to wander till it returns to the mantra. A mantra is a sacred word or phrase that is chanted repeatedly in order to alter one's state of mind and have miraculous religious and spiritual effects on the mind. When mantras are recited during meditation, people enter a higher state of consciousness. It is believed that chanting mantras opens the gates to the absolute. The sound of mantras is associated with a state of tranquil meditation which generates calmness, quietness, and peace in the mind and relaxes the muscles and tones the nervous system and becomes the cause for lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and rate of breath. This creates brain waves which deal with stress and its consequences. The opinion of several yoga masters and distinguished medical experts who worked on meditation for decades is expressed.

Author(s) Details:

Wazir C. Vasudeva,

Department of Chemistry, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

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The Role of Yoga in Management of Cancer | Chapter 18 | Current Practice in Medical Science Vol. 4

Yoga: It is primarily a discipline-based, spiritual art form that unites the body, mind, and pure soul. The Sanskrit root word "Yuj," which meaning "join," is where the term "yoga" comes from. Yoga has been practised for years all across the world. It is a condition of liberation known as "Mukti" or "Moksha." It is a form of treatment used to help people go through all of their pain and suffering. Yoga and pranayam were used in the past to cure a variety of illnesses, and they are being used today to treat illnesses like cancer. Yoga and pranayama are proven to be a gift for those who are stressed, in excruciating pain, or afflicted with any major illness. It has enhanced outcomes, and several studies have been conducted to demonstrate its advantages. Yoga can have a favourable impact on our bodies in a variety of ways, according to various studies. It is an alternative therapy that has been utilised in conjunction with traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and disorders. Cancer sufferers experience a significant change in their lives that they had never anticipated, making their situation extremely serious, painful, and depressing. All of these circumstances cause anxiety, melancholy, weariness, and rage, and in the worst cases, the patient loses hope for survival. He experiences general discomfort in his life as a result of nausea, vomiting, sleeplessness, and pain. The patient's quality of life significantly decreases as a result of these disorders. Cancer symptoms, its consequences, and therapeutic problems have all decreased thanks to yoga and meditation therapy.

Author(s) Details:

Sunder Singh,

Department of Radiation Oncology, Pt. BDS PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

Monica Verma,

Department of Biochemistry, Pt. BDS PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

Vivek Kaushal,

Department of Radiation Oncology, Pt. BDS PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

Abhishek Soni,

Department of Radiation Oncology, Pt. BDS PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

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Raja Yoga Meditation in Glycaemic Status in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus | Chapter 2 | Highlights on Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 14

 In today's world, stress affects the majority of people, either directly or indirectly. Stress, whether physical, emotional, or psychological, has gotten a lot of attention in recent years as a cause or exacerbating factor for numerous diseases such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, Cushing's disease, and so on. Meditation is a simple behavioural intervention that anyone of any age or physical condition may learn and practise. Meditation has been shown to modify autonomic regulation of homeostatic systems, as well as have favourable physiological consequences. A cross-sectional study was undertaken on 60 patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, 30 of whom had been practising Raja Yoga meditation for more than 5 years and 30 of whom had not. Meditation practitioners had significantly lower blood glucose and glycated haemoglobin levels. Practitioners of meditation also had lower lipid profiles, total cholesterol, and serum triglycerides. As a result, we discovered that meditation helps to preserve autonomic balance in people with type 2 diabetes.

Author (S) Details

Mrunal Phatak
Department of Physiology, AIIMS, Nagpur, India.

Tara Chawla
Department of Physiology, IGGMC, Nagpur, India.

Pallavi Phatak
Department of Surgery, Dy Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, India.

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Living Better through Yoga: Management of Body, Mind and Spirit | Chapter 8 | Current Topics in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 6

 

The need for a comprehensive or integrative conception is acknowledged by most developmental biologists. Yoga, Yoga  The method is holistic in that it takes care of an individual's well-being when addressing it.  The human body, the human spirit, and the soul of a human being. The integrative mechanism of spiritual evolution is  And with quick, continuous approaches such as mantra, yoga breathing exercises, it can be accomplished.  The mind is still unsteady as the wind wanders irregularly, but when the breathing is still, so is the mind.  Proper concentration for fasting rejuvenates the body and allows the mind focused. A Total Quick of  24 hours brings relief to the body. Five great elements are believed in healthy diets like Ayurveda: fire, fire,  Water, fire, air and space, creating the world, the human body included. That portion is yogic breathing  Pranayama seeks to regulate the actual expression of prana in the physical body.

Author Details

Viviana Siddhi
NGO the Mandala Transformation Foundation Inc., San Rafael, USA.

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