Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A program based on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn. Participants learn methods such as breathing, gentle yoga stretches, group discussion and support to reduce physical, emotional and spiritual stresses.

(See also: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

HealthWatchers Analysis: test of urine and saliva for the physical and emotional frequency of an individual's Stress Pattern. (See HealthWatchers System.)

(See also: HealthWatchers Analysis, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

AYURVEDIC MEDICINE: Ayurvedic medicine stresses a holistic approach to health.

It defines disease as the result of climatic extremes, bacterial attack, nutritional deviance, and stress, as well as other forms of emotional imbalance. Optimal health is achieved by cultivating mental and physical habits that are conductive to physical and spiritual well-being, and treatment often includes hatha yoga, diet, and the development of positive attitude.

(See also: Ayurvedic medicine, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Trager: Utilizing gentle, non-intrusive, natural movements, The Trager Approach helps release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and facilitates deep relaxation, increased physical mobility, and mental clarity. These patterns may have developed in response to accidents, illnesses, or any kind of physical or emotional trauma, including the stress of everyday life.

(See also: Trager, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

EnLighten Systems of stress management (EnLighten Systems, EnLighten): Variation of Bach flower therapy. EnLighten is a natural homeopathic system of liquid Traditional Flower Remedies that bypasses physical causes and targets emotions affected by stressful situations. It includes: (a) the EnLighten Habit Modification System; (b) the EnLighten System for Animals (also called the EnLighten for Animals healing system and the EnLighten for Animals system), which improves the disposition of pets; (c) the EnLighten System for Children with Learning Difficulties; (d) the EnLighten System for Teenagers; and (e) the EnLighten Weight Management System.

(See also: EnLighten Systems of stress management, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

A muscle monitoring technique, applied physiology allows the body to express what is out of balance and provides information to restore that balance. Muscles are put through a normal range of motion, monitored to determine where the stresses lie.

The centerpiece of the technique is using acupoints to ask “questions” about specific physiological and anatomical stresses. The goal of treatment is to let go of the stress within the body by integrating the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of an individual.

(See also: APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

The Einstein tensor of a null dust must have the form where is a null vector field. This definition makes sense in the absence of any physical interpretation, but if we place a stress-energy tensor on our spacetime which happens to have the form then Einstein's field equation is trivially satisfied, and in addition, such a stress-energy tensor has a clear physical interpretation in terms of massless radiation. The vector field specifies the direction in which the radia ...

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Null dust solution, Null dust solution - Mathematical definition, Null dust solution - Physical interpretation, Null dust solution - Einstein tensor, Null dust solution - Examples

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MAGNETIC THERAPY: magnetic field therapy or bio-magnetic therapy involves the use of magnets, magnetic devices or magnetic fields to treat a variety of physical and emotional conditions, including circulatory problems, certain forms of arthritis, chronic pain, sleep disorders, and stress.

(See also: Magnetic therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

BIOFEEDBACK

Biofeedback utilizes a system of sensitive instruments that relay information about the physical condition of the body. Used as a primary therapy, or in conjunction with other methods, biofeedback provides deep relaxation and stress management skills to prevent stress-related disorders and illness. These skills, including deep breathing and guided imagery, offer self-regulation and control over mental, emotional, and physical processes. The principles of biofeedback can be traced back to the 18th century.

(See also: BIOFEEDBACK, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

Trager Psychophysical Integration

A physical therapy using a gentle rhythmical type of bodywork that coaxes the subconscious mind to release its old programming. Deals with stress, limited movement, muscle spasm, pain and emotional holding patterns.

(See also: Trager Psychophysical Integration, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Foliation is usually formed by the preferred orientation of minerals within a rock. Typically this is a result of some physical force, and its effect upon the growth of minerals. The planar fabric of a foliation typically forms at right angles to the principal stress direction. In areas of shearing, however, planar fabric within a rock may not be directly perpendicular to the principal stress ...

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Foliation geology, Foliation geology - Formation Mechanisms, Foliation geology - Interpretation, Foliation geology - Description

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Stress is often reinforced by allophonic vowel length, especially when it is lexical. For example, French long vowels always occur on stressed syllables. Finnish, a language with two phonemic lengths, indicates the stress by adding allophonic length. This gives four distinctive lengths and five physical lengths: short and long stressed vowels, short and long unstressed vowels, and a half-long vowel, which is a short vowel found in a syllable immedi ...

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Vowel length, Vowel length - Vowel length and related features, Vowel length - Phonemic vowel length, Vowel length - Long vowels in English, Vowel length - Traditional non-phonetic long and short vowels, Vowel length - Allophonic vowel length, Vowel length - Phonemic vowel length, Vowel length - Etymologies, Vowel length - Notations in the Latin alphabet, Vowel length - Diacritics, Vowel length - Additional letters, Vowel length - Other signs, Vowel length - Notations in other writing systems, Vowel length - Reference

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vipassana (vipassanaa): Clear intuitive insight into physical and mental phenomena as they arise and disappear, seeing them for what they actually are - in and of themselves - in terms of the three characteristics (see ti-lakkhana) and in terms of stress, its origin, its disbanding, and the way leading to its disbanding (see ariya-sacca).

 (See also: Vipassana, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

The Ricci decomposition can be interpreted physically in Einstein's theory of general relativity, where it is sometimes called the Géhéniau-Debever decomposition. In this theory, the Einstein field equation where Tab is the stress-energy tensor describing the amount and motion of all matter and all nongravitational field energy and momentum, states that the Ricci tensor-- or equivalently, the Einstein tensor-- represents that part of the gravita ...

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Ricci decomposition, Ricci decomposition - Mathematical definition, Ricci decomposition - The pieces appearing in the decomposition, Ricci decomposition - Physical interpretation, Ricci decomposition - Reference

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Like general relativity and the Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, Nordström's theory is an example of a class of theories of gravitation called metric theories, because like those theories, in the formulation of Einstein and Fokker it employs a Lorentzian manifold, which is interpreted physically as a mathematical model of spacetime, it uses a stress-energy tensor field to describe the amount and motion of matter, and its field equations can be regarded as enforcing compatibility conditions between the metric tensor and the stress-e ...

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Nordström's theory of gravitation, Nordström's theory of gravitation - Comparison with general relativity, Nordström's theory of gravitation - The field equations

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Physical weathering of building stones occurs by any mechanism which generates physical stresses within the stone. The growth of salt crystals or ice crystals in pore spaces or in cracks can cause the stone to fracture. Extremes of temperature may also have the same effect. Frost weathering refers to the action of ice in causing mechanical breakdown in rocks. Frost weathering can only occur in damp conditions and only if the stone itself ...

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Building weathering, Building weathering - Chemical Weathering, Building weathering - Acid rain, Building weathering - Sulphation, Building weathering - Physical Weathering, Building weathering - Biological weathering, Building weathering - Weeds

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Yoga: A mind-body practice for physical fitness, mental wellness and spiritual renewal, based on the practice of postures known as asanas, breathing and meditation. Classes help participants reduce stress, improve circulation and balance, relax deeply and feel more energized

(See also: Yoga, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Guided Imagery: This technique concentrates on using images or symbols to train the mind to create a definitive physiological or psychological effect. Practitioners may teach clients how to relieve physical problems caused by stress, such as tension headaches. The technique has also been effectively used in some cancer treatment programs for pain management.

(See also: Guided Imagery, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Guided Imagery: This technique concentrates on using images or symbols to train the mind to create a definitive physiological or psychological effect. Practitioners may teach clients how to relieve physical problems caused by stress, such as tension headaches. The technique has also been effectively used in cancer treatment programs for pain management.

(See also: Guided Imagery, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Tantra: A manual of or a particular path of sadhana laying great stress upon japa of a mantra and other esoteric practices relating to the powers latent in the human complex of physical, astral, and causal bodies in relation to the cosmic Power usually thought as the Divine Feminine.

(See also: Tantra, Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot argued that psychological trauma was the origin of all instances of the mental illness of hysteria. Charcot's "traumatic hysteria" often manifested as a paralysis that followed a physical trauma, typically years later, after what Charcot described as a period of "incubation" [1]. Sigmund Freud, Charcot's student and the father of psychoanalysis, examined the concept of psychological trauma throughout his care ...

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Psychological trauma, Psychological trauma - Symptoms of trauma, Psychological trauma - Trauma in psychoanalysis, Psychological trauma - Trauma and stress disorders, Psychological trauma - Growth aspects of trauma, Psychological trauma - Notes

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During hydration and hardening, concrete needs to develop certain physical and chemical properties, among others, mechanical strength, low permeability to ingress of moisture, and chemical and volume stability. Concrete has relatively high compressive strength, but significantly lower tensile strength (about 10% of the compressive strength). As a result, concrete always fails from tensile stresses - even when loaded in compression. The practical implication of these facts is that concrete elements that are subjected to tensile stresses must ...

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Concrete, Concrete - History, Concrete - Characteristics, Concrete - Cracking, Concrete - Additives, Concrete - Workability, Concrete - Self compacting concretes, Concrete - Shotcrete / sprayed concrete, Concrete - External link

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