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The text "Meditation on the common notion of justice" by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz discusses the notion of justice and its relationship with power. The author criticizes the theories of Hobbes and Descartes, stating that justice is not arbitrary and is based on eternal truths. In addition, the text addresses the defense of funding scientific research on microscopic beings by rulers. The author also discusses the structure of the brain and the difficulty of understanding it, comparing it to the government of intelligent substances under the monarchy of God. The text also addresses the importance of justice and goodness in accordance with wisdom, and discusses the right to property and the relationship between parents and children. [Extracted from the article]

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the scientific evidence available in national and international literature on the relationships between nursing students’ mindfulness and emotional regulation. Methods: an integrative literature review, in four databases, with a time frame from January 2002 to December 2022. Articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese available in full were included. Results: the sample consisted of six original articles, predominantly with a quantitative approach, with cross-sectional designs standing out. Conclusion: the synthesis of scientific production revealed that there is a lack of research at national and international level on the subject with experimental and qualitative designs that enable conclusions about cause and effect and/or take into account subjective experiences of the applicability of mindfulness-based practice in nursing students’ emotional regulation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Chronic pain has a significant impact on patients’ quality of life and the use of drug therapy is often insufficient. Therapies based on Mindfulness come in different forms and have been used as a strategy to manage this condition. Practices can guide attention to the present, help reinterpret pain and improve physical and emotional control skills via the cingulate cortex, somatosensory cortex, parietal operculum, cuneus, and anterior insula. This study seeks to evaluate the results of Mindfulness in terms of its influence on the quality of life of patients with chronic non-cancer pain and the neural changes that this practice promotes, such as greater or lesser activation or variation in size of areas as insula and cingulate cortex, and how these interfere with the perception of pain, with the aim of verifying the applicability of Mindfulness as a complementary method to treatment in this group of patients. CONTENTS: Systematic Review submitted to PROSPERO datadase under number 359011. The search was carried out in the Pubmed, Medline, LILACS and DIALNET databases between 2019 and 2022 with the descriptors and Boolean operator [(MINDFULNESS) AND (CHRONIC PAIN)]. The selection of articles includes randomized clinical trials, cohort studies and case control studies in English, Spanish and Portuguese languages. The risk of bias was assessed using ROB2 and the quality of evidence using GRADE. After analysis, ten studies were assessed as essential for this review. Articles that addressed Mindfulness intervention for chronic pain that responded and added information to the research question were included and articles that did not focus on “Mindfulness” and “chronic pain”, studies without free access and texts whose results were not published up to the date of the search were excluded. To analyze Mindfulness therapies, the majority of studies cover more than 50 patients and use scales such as the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-DPN Q4), Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) and Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). CONCLUSION: The practice of Mindfulness can reduce chronic pain and improving its perception, acceptability and quality of life by enabling the reduction of suffering, anxiety and stress associated with pain through neural changes. As there are limitations in the studies regarding the specific target population and standardization of assessment, it is recommended that future articles address the practice in children, the elderly and athletes with chronic pain, in addition to a detailed methodology to evaluate and promote the sessions. It should be noted that Mindfulness is not a cure for chronic pain, however it presents safety and effectiveness in its different application protocols, with a level of evidence similar to cognitive behavioral therapy.

This study sought to understand how mindfulness meditation promotes the autonomy of nurses in Primary Health Care, according to Paulo Freire's theory. A qualitative, participatory research was developed, carried out with 16 nurses, through open in-depth interviews, between September and December 2020 and through a thematic content analysis. As a result, it was found that the professional autonomy of nurses in Primary Health Care is in a process of evolution and consolidation. Training, the search for knowledge, nursing protocols, and experiences add strength to nurture their role. There was a reflection on the operationalization of meditation at work, which is possible to introduce in the nurse's care prescriptions, both individually and collectively. It was concluded that nurses' autonomy is achieved through different fronts of action and meditation constitutes a path with potential for promoting professional autonomy and comprehensive care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introdução: A meditação pode ser uma estratégia para lidar com comorbidades psicoemocionais e físicas que afetam pessoas vivendo com HIV (PVH) e que podem ser exacerbadas durante a pandemia de Covid-19. Objetivo: Avaliar os níveis de linfócitos TCD4+ e TCD8+, carga viral e parâmetros metabólicos de PVH submetidos a sessões de meditação. Procedimento experimental: Estudo de caso-crossover no qual sete participantes frequentaram sessões de meditação guiadas remotamente entre julho e agosto de 2020 (oito semanas), uma sessão por semana, com duração média de uma hora cada. A quantificação de linfócitos TCD4+ e TCD8+ foi realizada por citometria de fluxo; a carga viral foi detectada pela técnica de reação em cadeia da polimerase e os parâmetros metabólicos por quimiluminescência. Resultados: A meditação manteve constantes os níveis de linfócitos TCD4+ (p=0,93) e TCD8+ (p=0,37) e a carga viral (

This article studies the leitmotif of the Christus medicus in late medieval literary texts. In all cases, the presence of a Christ doctor is evidenced from examples of medical and religious terms; signs of Christ as a healer of humanity and thaumaturgist, and in the metaphorical realm, where Christ is the good doctor. In these pages, we will analyse the relationship established between this leitmotif of Christ as a doctor and various fragments, through meditation and reflection by means of the allegorical word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of meditation on anxiety and quality of life in sexual and gender minorities. This is a randomized clinical trial, 23 individuals participated in the experimental group and 19 in the control. There was a decrease in the averages of state anxiety, when comparing the pre-test (51.87±10.20) with the 4th week (42.70±12.85) and the 8th week of meditation (41.12±14, 02) in the experimental group (ρ = 0.015). There was no statistically significant effect of meditation on quality of life, although this mean increased during practice. Meditation can be a nurse mental health care strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Descartes, at the beginning of the Meditation's proof of the existence of the external material world, refers to a passivity's awareness that is given by the involuntary nature of the ideas of the senses. The experience of this passivity leads him to question about what is the active cause that explains that passivity, which leads, at the end of the steps of the proof, to the knowledge of the existence of bodies as the causes of the ideas of the senses. The purpose of this article is to examine the role that the ideas of the senses play in the proof of the existence of the physical world to answer whether what counts as a premise for that proof is merely the passivity of the ideas of the senses, or if the representative content of those ideas is also involved there. The question that is behind of the purpose of investigating it concerns what they, as a starting point for the proof, allow us to conclude about bodies, namely, 1) simply that they exist; or 2) not only that they exist, but also something specific about their nature - so that the ideas of the senses would (in some way) have objective validity. Our hypothesis here in this paper is that the ideas of the senses, in the proof of the existence of the material world, are not reduced to mere signs of the existence of bodies as their representative content plays an important role in its conclusion, which is to incline the thinking substance to believe that bodies are the cause of the ideas of the senses. And, in this way, the ideas of the senses would have some degree of objective validity and from them we could extract some specific knowledge about bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aims: To evaluate factors associated with the practice of transcendental meditation (TM) in the elderly. Methods: Cross-sectional study, with the inclusion of 113 older adults and women, 60 of them practitioners and 53 non-MT practitioners. A semi-structured questionnaire was used as an instrument, composed of sociodemographic, health and TM practice data. Data analysis was performed using the chi-square test and binary logistic regression. Results: The average age of practitioners was lower than that of non-practitioners (63.7 ± 4.0 vs. 69.1 ± 6.6 years). Most of the sample had completed higher education (f = 45; 75%; p = 0.001) and received more than three minimum wages (f = 40; 67.8%; p = 0.001). In the group of TM practitioners there was a greater proportion of individuals with excellent / good self-perceived health (91.7% vs 77.4%; p = 0.034), and less hospitalization in the last semester (5% vs 24.5 %; p = 0.003). Older adults who denied hospitalization or the presence of diabetes mellitus (DM) presented, respectively, 5.7 (95% CI OR 1.1 - 28.9) and 4.9 (95% CI OR 1.3 - 19.2) times chance to practice MT. The practice of TM is 80% more likely to be practiced by older adults with better self-perceived health (OR 0.17; 95% CI 0.03 - 0.96). Conclusion: The practice of a holistic activity such as TM is associated with better self-perceived health than older adults of the same age, and less chance of hospitalization in the last semester and the presence of DM.

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a mindfulness-based treatment (MBT) for smoking cessation or reduction and compare it with that of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Methods: This was a single-center randomized controlled clinical trial including 113 patients divided into two groups: MBT (n = 54) and CBT (n = 59). The interventions comprised eight 90-min sessions. The primary outcome was smoking cessation at 16 weeks after program initiation. Secondary outcomes included reduction in the mean number of cigarettes smoked/day at 16 weeks after treatment initiation, as well as smoking cessation and reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked/day at the last program session. Participants had to attend ≥ 50% of the sessions to be included in the primary outcome analysis. An intention-to-treat analysis was also performed. Results: There was no difference between the groups regarding the primary outcome (30.4% in the MBT group vs. 31.6% in the CBT group, p = 0.68) or immediate abstinence rates (47.8% in the MBT group vs. 36.8% in the CBT group, p = 0.47). Both treatments were equally effective in reducing the number of cigarettes smoked/day at the last program session (a reduction of 93.33% [0-100%] in the MBT group and of 70% [33.3-100%] in the CBT group, p = 0.92) and at 16 weeks after program initiation (a reduction of 57.1% [0-100%] in the MBT group and of 70% [25-100%] in the CBT group, p = 0.49). Conclusions: MBT appears to be as effective as CBT for smoking cessation or reduction and can be an option for the treatment of tobacco use disorders in Brazil (Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials identifier: RBR-3w2scz [http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br])

Neurolinguistic Programming is indicated as a tool to deal with personal and collective fears and challenges. And the practice of meditation can promote gains for health professionals, especially when dealing with professional stress. These practices often make use of Quantum Physics, in a non- scientific way, to explain its importance. With the objective of evaluating the way in which scientific studies in health relate meditation, Neurolinguistic Programming, and Quantum Physics, searches were started for research carried out on the three themes, using free access systems on the world wide web. The selected texts were organized in an electronic library on the Mendeley platform and subsequently submitted to content analysis. As for the findings, they demonstrate the importance of the themes for the pandemic period and the relevance of the use of Neurolinguistic Programming techniques and the practice of Meditation with the SUS and in social life. And, about the relationship between the subjects, investigations suggest that there is a small number of researchers who associate Quantum Physics with Neuro-Linguistic Programming and/or Meditation. Localized research points to studies on Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch_OR), a theory studied by Hameroff and Penrose. The theory proposes that consciousness is associated with subatomic quantum processes that occur in the microtubules of proteins in neurons. This research concludes that Quantum Physics is an expanding science, with many questions to be answered and it is remarkable that speculations in this area can be of great value to scientific research in Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to observe the intersections and compatibility with Catholicism and what the Vatican called in 1989 "eastern methods", psychosomatic techniques "inspired by Hindu and Buddhism", such as "the Zen, Transcendental Meditation, or Yoga", considering two empirical cases investigated ethnographically in Brazil: the modality of Christian Yoga created by the Jesuit priest Haroldo J. Rahm and the Christian Meditation created by the Canadian Benedictine John Main. In view of this, a question that is imposed is to understand how such compatibilizations are made. Making the treatment of traditions of such methods, they can plan the execution of cases between the two cases and Catholicism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To identify the effects of meditation practices and programs on the health of nursing professionals. Integrative review conducted in April 2020 through the search for publications in journals indexed in Scopus, MEDLINE / PubMed, OneFile, Sage Journals and PMC. The hospital environment was the setting for all research (n=10). The interventions applied were mostly (n=7) of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) type, with an average duration of four to eight weeks. Meditation programs had immediate effects on stress relief, burnout risk, increased satisfaction with compassion, personal power, improved quality of life, physical and psychological dimensions, and reduced anxiety and depression traits. The aspects to be considered for the implementation of these programs in hospitals include using traditional meditation techniques, validated, maintaining a continuous character, taught by a qualified professional and encouraging the organization of the professionals' time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumo: A meditação adquiriu novos significados no cenário urbano das últimas décadas, atraindo cada vez mais pessoas preocupadas com saúde mental. Sua inclusão entre os procedimentos de saúde respeitados ocorreu devido à construção de explicações científicas que autorizassem sua utilização, provocando sua transferência da esfera religiosa para a área de saúde. Tendo como referência o conceito weberiano, esse processo será problematizado como desencantamento da meditação. A intenção deste texto é discutir algumas transformações dos valores religiosos e sanitários que propiciaram o desencantamento das práticas contemplativas asiáticas, bem como possíveis afinidades com as demandas do capitalismo contemporâneo.

This paper seeks, through a bibliographic review, to understand whether the practice of compassion meditation can be a useful tool to achieve a secure attachment style. The search for the latter is justified by corroborating with a more resilient individual, explorer of the outside world, self-confident, complacent and helpful in distressing situations, cooperative and possessing stronger relational connections. In parallel, there are the benefits of practicing compassion meditation, which include increasing social connection, generating several positive emotions and reducing avoidance of difficult thoughts and/or feelings. The Google Scholar platforms, CAPES Portal and PUC-Rio Library Portal were consulted, in Portuguese and English, the expressions "loving kindness meditation and attachment theory", "compassion meditation and attachment theory", "compassion meditation and attachment theory" and "attachment security and meditation". No research has been identified specifically associating compassion meditation and attachment theory. However, the hypothesis of the former influencing the latter has not been refuted, and there is still insufficient evidence of confirmation. The practice of meditation is scientifically supported and studied, but it has recently started research, which has not fully explored the subject, being interesting experimental and scientific studies to further validate the practice and its benefits. These studies include the intersections and interferences between compassionate meditation and secure attachment style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: to develop meditative activities with students from a university in northwestern Rio Grande do Sul and to analyze the perception of university students about meditative practice. Method: research- intervention, with a qualitative approach. We accomplished 11 meditation meetings, with the participation of five students, from April to July 2019. The data produced through a questionnaire with sociodemographic and health data, non-participant observation and open interview were subjected to thematic analysis. Results: students' participation in meditation was motivated by curiosity, difficulty concentrating, stress, irritation, anxiety and nervousness. Mindfulness meditation provided increased concentration and focus for studies, improved sleep quality and promoted self-awareness and subjective well-being. Conclusion: mindfulness meditation at the University was important to promote mental health, effective in minimizing stress and anxiety states and promoted positive changes in students' lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parkinson Disease is a chronic, degenerative and progressive disorder of the central nervous system, which results from the death of dopamine-producing neurons of the substantia nigra. Among the alternative and complementary health practices that can favor an improvement in the quality of life of these individuals, meditation stands out, a conscious and unidirectional action of the mind to a focal point, which is: mantra, image and breathing. This study aims to analyze meditation as an intervention tool in the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease. This is a descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, carried out at the Núcleo de Atenção Médica Integrada, at the Universidade de Fortaleza, from May to June 2016. Four elderly of both genders, with at least 60 years old, with a clinical diagnosis of Parkinson Disease participated in the research. The information was collected through semi-structured interviews, recorded and transcribed in full, in a private room. After transcribing, reading and re-reading the interviews, the following categories of analysis stood out: well-being after meditative practice, self-control, and inter-family and social relationship. It was evident, through the speeches, that the patients, after performing the meditation, noticed greater relaxation, improvement in the quality of sleep, greater concentration and decrease in anxiety. There was a significant improvement in the quality of life of patients, especially with regard to self-control and social and family relationships of the elderly. Therefore, the application of meditation as an integrative therapy in conjunction with drug treatment proved to be effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text aims to present the methodological contributions of the use of photography when structuring cultural projects and elaborating literary texts, such as short stories and chronicles. It is based on a 2018 cultural action experience, in which images of the built historical heritage from the city of Icó, Ceará countryside, were used as the basis for meditations and reflections about the relationship between memory, heritage, culture, and oral history. The results attest to the viability of combining photography and literature intending to promote university actions linked to teaching and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mindfulness Meditation technique is defined as a method of attention in the experience of the present moment in a receptive way, suggesting a new posture by a conscious understanding of what happens around you, thus decreasing emotional and physiological factors, intervening by affective reactivity with mental and physical health benefits. For this, a quantitative analysis of stress control with the Mindfulness practice was conducted in two cities in Vale do Paraíba, given the scarcity of initial evidence in the region, and the initial study was conducted in 8 sessions in a randomly delimited sample of 20 participants (8 men and 12 women). The results demonstrated the potential that the practice made possible in the two samples evaluated, with the improvement in stress indicators after the period of practice (P = 0.022 and P = 0.003); in addition, it was possible to evaluate the potential of control that the practice provided (P = 0.002). Therefore, the results obtained indicate the potential for improvement in the analyzed indicators, and that the continuous practice of the Mindfulness Full Attention method influences the quality of life of individuals in society and promotes well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. The work, herein, sought to determine the effect of yoga on the quality of life of nurses working in intensive care units (ICU). Methods. This was a randomized controlled clinical trial of a preventive intervention of three weekly sessions of yoga exercises, which included aspects of meditation, breathing control, and slow body movements. The study selected 70 nurses working in ICU and assigned them to two groups: experimental (n = 35) and control (n = 35). The World Health Organization Quality of Life brief questionnaire (WHOQoL-Bref) was used to evaluate on four moments (baseline, one, two, six months after the start of the study); this scale has 26 items with Likert-type response options ranging from 1 to 5; higher total score indicates better quality of life. Results. The baseline score of quality of life in the experimental group was 62.3, which increased to 70.7 on the first month and continued improving in the evaluations on the second month (72.8) and sixth month (74.1), with this change being statistically significant. Instead, the control group showed no differences in scores of the different moments of evaluation (baseline = 62, first month = 61.9, second month = 62.4, and sixth month = 60.4). In the four domains of the WHOQoL-Bref (physical, psychological, social relationships, and environment), it was also noted that the experimental group obtained better scores over time compared with the control group. Conclusion. The intervention of yoga exercises was effective in improving the quality of life of nurses working in ICU. How to cite this article: Rostami K, Ghodsbin F. Effect of Yoga on the Quality of Life of Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units. Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Invest. Educ. Enferm. 2019; 37(3):e06.

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Aujourd’hui, l’engagement de personnes dans un radicalisme violent, politique ou religieux, menace la sécurité publique. Pour contribuer à solutionner ces problèmes transcontinentaux, plusieurs pays ont mis en œuvre des programmes de prévention primaire des radicalisations violentes (RV), où le système judiciaire a un rôle prépondérant. Or, les évaluations, pas toujours rigoureuses, ont tout de même tendance à montrer l’inefficacité et même la vraisemblable contre-productivité de ces actions. La problématique de cet article théorique concerne donc la manière de mettre en œuvre une prévention efficace des RV et d’évaluer scientifiquement son efficacité (quels indicateurs considérer ?). Dans une première partie nous argumentons, sur la base de la littérature psychologique, en partie dédiée au terrorisme islamiste, que le dogmatisme et le besoin de clôture constituent une caractéristique des esprits radicalisés. Ensuite, sur cette base et celle d’une conceptualisation antérieure, nous présentons un modèle théorique pionnier où la RV apparaît comme fermant l’esprit, tandis qu’une prévention efficace conduirait, au contraire, à ouvrir l’esprit. Après cela, nous argumentons sur les liens entre ouverture d’esprit, santé, responsabilité (éthique) et méditation. Nous en déduisons l’importance d’inclure l’éducation à la santé comme un moyen efficace de prévention primaire des RV, avec comme fin la responsabilité. Notre modèle ouvre de nouvelles perspectives, tant pour l’éducation que pour la recherche. Il contient en effet des indicateurs psychologiques mesurables et opérationnels qui pourront servir à étudier empiriquement l’impact de dispositifs éducatifs sur la prévention, impliquant par exemple un outil éducatif que nous avons particulièrement étudié : la méditation.

Care of the self, identified by Michel Foucault as the practices of taking care of oneself and worrying about yourself, through meditation exercises, self-writing, examination of conscience among other activities that make it possible to looking at the self. Objective: The objective was to present how the care of self in the Foucaultian perspective is explored in the health area. Method: Integrative review, developed in the eletronic database Eletronic Libray Online (SciELO), PubMed.gov, Web of Science-Main collection (Thomson Reuters Scientific), and SCOPUS (Elsevier) with the keywords Foucault and Care of the Self, where initially we found 262 articles and after applying exclusion criteria, there were ten articles left. The selected articles made possible reflections on the ways of inciting self care that were approached through self- listening, awareness, physical activities, yoga, changing eating habits, meditation, crafts, sewing, crocheting, knitting and reflections about life. It is these practices of freedom that made possible the modification of the subjects and thus a better quality of life for professionals working with mental health, women's health and home care programs, chronic patients associated with asthma and diabetes, physically disabled and caregiver relatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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