Body Mind Massage: Component of BodyMind Therapy. BodyMind Massage includes shiatsu. Its principle is that touch is sacred and has healing power, and its goal is synergy.

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The debate about the nature of the mind is relevant to the development of artificial intelligence. If the mind is indeed a thing separate from or higher than the functioning of the brain, then presumably it will not be possible for any machine, no matter how sophisticated, to duplicate it. If on the other hand the mind is no more than the aggregated functions of the brain, then it will be possible, at least in ...

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Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. The way in which the world is experienced is the subject of much debate and research in philosophy of mind, psychology, brain biology, neurology, and cognitive science. Humans, often mentioned with other species, are variously said to possess consciousness, self-awareness, and a mind, the fruition of which are ...

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As alluded to above, many philosophers accept the thrust of the multiple realizability argument and thus reject both physicalism and reductionism wholesale. The argument has motivated another view known as functionalism which holds that mental states aren't physical, rather, they're functional. A functional state describes a relationship between certain inputs (sensory stimuli), outputs (behavior), and other mental states. A pain is functional in virtue of having a certain causal role. That causal role is determined by certain input stimuli ...

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"He's come," said the landlord, grabbing the attention of the four men at the George, a local tavern. There, a sick man awaits the visit of a London doctor. Fettes, a drunk on his second glass of scotch, sits in a fog, minding the events of the pub out of the corner of his eye. The cloaked and grungy Scotsman hears the doctor's name. It is Wolfe Macfarlane. Fettes wakes suddenly from his drunken stupor, rushing to confirm the face of this golden clad man. Fettes short dialogue is mysterious, and ends abrupt ...

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Body-Mind Centering: Form of somatic therapy promoted by The School for Body-Mind Centering, in Amherst, Massachusetts. It involves guided imagery. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, who founded the school in 1973, originated the method. Cohen is the author of Sensing, Feeling and Action.

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Body Mind Dynamics: Form of bodywork advanced by the Somakinetics Research Institute and, in 1994, promoted by the Source of Life Center, in New York City. It is (or was) a way to release pain, stress, and negative emotions that interfere with the functioning of glands, internal organs, the nervous system, and meridians.

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BodyMind Shiatsu: Component of BodyMind Therapy that includes energy extension, pulse assessment, and touching meridian points.

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BodyMind Therapy: System taught by The BodyMind Academy, in Bellevue, Washington. It includes BodyMind Breathwork, BodyMind Counseling Hypnotherapy, BodyMind Massage, BodyMind Shiatsu, Gestalt (see Gestalt therapy), and inner family work.

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BODY-MIND CENTERING: a movement-reeducation approach that explores how the bodyÕs systems contribute to movement and self-awareness. The approach also emphasizes movement patterns that develop during infancy and childhood. Incorporates guided movement, exercise, imagery and hands-on work.

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Mind-Body Connection  - Currently taken to refer to psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), the study of the connections between the brain, and endocrine and immune neural pathway connections.

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MIND BODY MEDICINE: Mood, attitude, and belief can affect virtually every chronic illness: fear, cynicism, as well as a sense of hopelessness and helplessness, can have a detrimental effect on health; whereas courage, good humor, a sense of control and hopefulness can all be beneficial.

Optimistic people are less likely to become ill and, when they do become ill, tend to live longer and suffer less. Studies at Yale and Rutgers Universities by Ellen Idler, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, and Stanislav Kasl Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology at Yale, indicate that the opinion of one's health status--how well one thinks one is--may be the best predictor of well-being and future health.

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Mind-body and relaxation techniques , Mind-body and relaxation technics ,  :

A group of healing methods which emphasize mind-body interactions with intended benefits that include relaxation and emotional well being.

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Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine:

Mind-body medicine (also referred to as psychoneuroimmunology-PNI) focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health. It regards as fundamental an approach that respects and enhances each person’s capacity for self-knowledge and self-care, and it emphasizes techniques that are grounded in this approach.

Mind-body medicine typically focuses on intervention strategies that are thought to promote health, such as relaxation, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, tai chi, qi gong, cognitive-behavioral therapies, group support, spirituality, and prayer. The philosophy of mind/body medicine views illness as an opportunity for personal growth and transformation, and health care providers as catalysts and guides in this process.

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Body-Mind Rhythmic Movement

A system created by Susan Kramer. Elementary academic instruction using rhythmic movement patterning as a way to develop and reinforce the bodymind connection.

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BodyMind Counseling Hypnotherapy: Component of BodyMind Therapy that includes Jungian psychology and NLP.

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Magical Mind, Magical Body: Audiocassette program developed by endocrinologist Deepak Chopra, M.D., the author of more than a dozen books.

Its principles include the following.

(a)           Within one's body is a universe as boundless as the outer universe.

(b)           All bodily cells have genius.

(c)           This genius holds the key to perfect well-being.

(d)           One can command this genius.

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Mindfulness: A state of awareness, of oneself and others, as well as nature.

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Mind

Key concept in all Buddhist teaching. Frequent term in Zen, used in two senses:

(1)  the mind-ground, the One Mind ... the buddha-mind, the mind of thusness ...

(2)  false mind, the ordinary mind dominated by conditioning, desire, aversion, ignorance, and false sense of self, the mind of delusion ... (J.C. Cleary, A Buddha from Korea.)

The ordinary, deluded mind (thought) includes feelings, impressions, conceptions, consciousness, etc. The Self-Nature True Mind is the fundamental nature, the Original Face, reality, etc.

As an analogy, the Self-Nature True Mind is to mind what water is to waves -- the two cannot be dissociated. They are the same but they are also different.

To approach the sutras "making discriminations and nurturing attachments is no different from the Zen allegory of a person attempting to lift a chair while seated on it. If he would only get off the chair, he could raise it easily.

Similarly, the practitioner truly understands the Dharma only to the extent that he "suspends the operation of the discriminating intellect, the faculty of the internal dialogue through which people from moment to moment define and perpetuate their customary world of perception." (See this book, Introduction.)

See also the following passage: The mind ... "creates" the world in the sense that it invests the phenomenal world with value. The remedy to this situation, according to Buddhism, is to still the mind, to stop it from making discriminations and nurturing attachments toward certain phenomena and feelings of aversion toward others. When this state of calmness of mind is achieved, the darkness of ignorance and passion will be dispelled and the mind can perceive the underlying unity of the absolute. The individual will then have achieved the state of enlightenment and will be freed from the cycle of birth and death, because such a person is now totally indifferent to them both. (Burton Watson, The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi.)

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five states of the mind: A view of the mind in five parts: conscious mind, subconscious mind, subsubconscious mind, superconscious mind and subsuperconscious mind.

Also about the three phases of mind: A perspective of mind as instinctive, intellectual and superconscious: individual mind, universal mind and instinctive mind.

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mindfulness

1. Awareness of each moment; paying attention without preconception, judgment, or evaluation

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mind

1.    Discriminating faculty constantly evaluating, judging and reasoning.

2.    Awareness whose basic nature is empty, neither pure nor impure.

3.    Seat of the senses, which must be controlled and mastered to attain enlightenment

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