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Buddhist-Derived Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation for the Treatment of Psychopathology: a Systematic Review
No full textAlthough clinical interest has predominantly focused on mindfulness meditation, interest into the clinical utility of Buddhist-derived loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM) is also growing. This paper follows the PRISMA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis) guidelines and provides an evaluative systematic review of LKM and CM intervention studies. Five electronic academic databases were systematically searched to identify all intervention studies assessing changes in the symptom severity of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (text revision fourth edition) Axis I disorders in clinical samples and/or known concomitants thereof in sub-clinical/healthy samples. The comprehensive database search yielded 342 papers and 20 studies (comprising a total of 1,312 participants) were eligible for inclusion. The Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies was then used to assess study quality. Participants demonstrated significant improvements across five psychopathology-relevant outcome domains: (i) positive and negative affect, (ii) psychological distress, (iii) positive thinking, (iv) interpersonal relations, and (v) empathic accuracy. It is concluded that LKM and CM interventions may have utility for treating a variety of psychopathologies. However, to overcome obstacles to clinical integration, a lessons-learned approach is recommended whereby issues encountered during the (ongoing) operationalization of mindfulness interventions are duly considered. In particular, there is a need to establish accurate working definitions for LKM and CM
Deep Loving - The Friend of Deep Learning
No full textArtificial Intelligence and Deep Learning are good fields of research. Recently, the brother of Artificial Intelligence titled "Artificial Satisfaction" was introduced in literature [10]. In this article, we coin the term 201C;Deep Loving201D;. After the publication of this article, "Deep Loving" will be considered as the friend of Deep Learning. Proposing a new field is different from proposing a new algorithm. In this paper, we strongly focus on defining and introducing "Deep Loving Field" to Research Scientists across the globe. The future of the "Deep Loving" field is predicted by showing few future opportunities in this new field. The definition of Deep Learning is shown followed by a literature review of the "Deep Loving" field. The World's First Deep Loving Algorithm (WFDLA) is designed and implemented in this work by adding Deep Loving concepts to Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. Results obtained by WFDLA are compared with the PSO algorithm
Teaching Meditation 3: Loving-kindness
No full textThe Buddhist meditations on loving-kindness have been adapted for use in a secular context. How to teach and do loving-kindness meditations are described. Loving-kindness is used as both a type of meditation and a valuable quality that is cultivated; it can be an antidote to negative thoughts, and a foundation for a kinder relationship to yourself and others. Five meditations are described: (1) concentration on loving-kindness, (2) a visualisation filling the self and space with loving-kindness, (3) directed it to a part of the body, (4) directing loving-kindness to other people, (5) directing loving-kindness equally to all categories of people, and (6) a modern version of one of the original meditations on loving-kindness
Interview with Howard Loving
No full textCapt. USN retired Howard Loving and his wife relocated from Washington, D.C. to Wilmington in 1993. Howard was asked to become a part of United Way and served for 9 years as a director and the lead fundraiser. Since that time, he has been instrumental in the preservation of Bellamy Mansion and the enlargement of the Children's Museum, has served on the Board of Coastal Horizons and the Board of Cameron Museum, has raised money for DSS, and has advised groups in both Brunswick and Pender Counties. At the time of this interview, he is involved in raising funds for a Concert Hall to be used in conjunction with a new Convention Center
Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns
No full textLoving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns has already won the Hazel Rowley Prize (US, 2020) for the best proposal for a first-time biographer and was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize (UK, 2019) for the best unpublished biography.
At its core, Jay Prosser is writing a family memoir that builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not Just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writing away from its customary setting of the Holocaust and Europe, transporting Jewish identity instead to Iraq, India, China and Singapore: places and cultures that most people (including Jews themselves) don’t associate with Jewish identity. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antagonistic.
The issue of intermarriage is increasingly important for all racial groups and this book speaks beyond the Jewish community, in relation to how we treat strangers in the form of immigrants and other communities
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Science Study Break - Ask Dr. Loving
No full textLocation: Student Activity Center Auditorium, SAC 1.402 -- Speaker: Dr. Timothy Loving, School of Human Ecology -- Dr. Timothy Loving of the School of Human Ecology explored the dynamics of romance using scenes from (500) Days of Summer, Moonrise Kingdom, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.About Science Study Break: Take a break from the books and join UT researchers for cookies, chips, and chat about popular movies and TV shows that deal with science topics.
Many viewers uncritically accept scientific information presented in movies or on TV. That may be good in the case of a medical organization broadening viewers’ knowledge by using entertainment-education—for example, embedding information about breast cancer in the storyline of a telenovela. But that may be bad when “science” unconsciously absorbed from popular programming affects citizens’ considerations of public policy issues.
In each program of this occasional series, you’ll hear faculty members discuss realms of scientific possibility, evaluate presentations of science in popular culture, or mercilessly mock bad science and worse screenwriting. You’ll also sharpen your Bad Science Detector and discover library resources you can use to check the facts.
Science Study Break occurs twice each semester and is generously supported by the University Federal Credit Union.UT Librarie
Wynn Loving, artist from New York City
No full textArtist Wynn Loving sketching at her easel. Circa 1970
Marsico, G. (2019). The generative and innovative feature of Latin American thought. In R. Diaz-Loving, Ethnopsychology: pieces from the Mexican research gallery, Latin American Voices, 1 (pp.v-viii), São Paulo, Brazil
No full textThis book Ethnopsychology: pieces from the Mexican research gallery by Rolando Diaz-Loving, inaugurates the new Springer Book Series Latin American Voices – Integrative Psychology and Humanities. As a firstborn, the book has to accomplish the task to draw the matrix of our intellectual enterprise. It will outline the theoretical basis and the methodological approach within which a vivid debate in the field of Psychology and Human Sciences in contemporary society will be promoted, keeping a special focus on Latin-American countries
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The psychotherapeutic applications of loving-kindness and compassion meditation
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