The Musings Of A Wandering Mind

Author : Shrabonee Paul
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984540737

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The Musings of a Wandering Mind by Shrabonee Paul Pdf

Inspired by reality, shaped with imagination, these stories beautifully capture the lives of the characters that take us through a journey into their lives . The stories subtly embrace the plethora of emotions of love, joy, sorrow, anger, fear or faith through myriad experiences of the people narrated through the pages described so beautifully that they feel so real. Set in a multi cultural societal backdrop, the stories will take you away to places which you can visualize beautifully between the lines. If you are stealing moments away from work, or just whiling away some time, or sipping on your favorite cup of tea or just trying to read a few lines before sleep settles into your eyelids, or just one of those who don’t have the patience to read novels... This book holds a humble collection of short stories that helps you unwind and enjoy.

Author : Tamanna Bora Kanwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637542747

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Musings of a Wandering Mind by Tamanna Bora Kanwal Pdf

Sharing with you an anthology of poems from the heart that highlight a lot of good and bad memories and experiences of a life lived well so far.Dedicated to my father, this is my humble attempt to keep his memories alive.

Author : Jaspriya Gandhok
Publisher : Writersgram
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Random Musings of a Wandering Mind by Jaspriya Gandhok Pdf

'This book is a collection of poems that are reflections of wide range of emotions and issues an individual experiences going through life. In the fast-paced world that we inhabit today, we become just another face in the crowd and our voice gets drowned in the cacophony, making us feel unmoored. While some poems give expression to hopelessness and despair that we feel from time to time, be it due to personal setbacks and losses or despondency we witness in the world around us. However, there is always an underlying belief that, in the end, resilience of human spirit triumphs over everything. These poems aspire to bring courage and hope for the reader.

Author : David D. Preiss,Diego Cosmelli,James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128166147

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Creativity and the Wandering Mind by David D. Preiss,Diego Cosmelli,James C. Kaufman Pdf

Creativity and the Wandering Mind: Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition summarizes research on the impact of mind wandering and cognitive control on creativity, including imagination, fantasy and play. Most coverage in this area has either focused on the negative consequences of mind wandering on focused problem solving or the positive effect of mindfulness, but not on the positive consequences of mind wandering. This volume bridges that gap. Research indicates that most people experience mind wandering during a large percentage of their waking time, and that it is a baseline default mode of brain function during the awake but resting state. This volume explores the different kinds of mind wandering and its positive impact on imagination, play, problem-solving, and creative production. Discusses spontaneous and controlled processes in creativity Examines the relationship between mind wandering, consciousness, and imagination Reviews research on problem-solving, imagination, play, and learning Highlights the positive impact of mind wandering on creative thought and output

Author : Michael C. Corballis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226238616

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Corballis argues that mind-wandering has many constructive and adaptive features. These range from mental time travel?the wandering back and forth through time, not only to plan our futures based on past experience, but also to generate a continuous sense of who we are--to the ability to inhabit the minds of others, increasing empathy and social understanding. Through mind-wandering, we invent, tell stories, and expand our mental horizons. Mind wandering , hardly the sign of a faulty network or aimless distraction, actually underwrites creativity, whether as a Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud, or an Einstein imagining himself travelling on a beam of light. Corballis takes readers on a mental journey in chapters that can be savored piecemeal, as the minds of readers wander in different ways, and sometimes have limited attentional capacity.

Author : Joseph D. Lichtenberg,Frank M. Lachmann,James L. Fosshage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317610403

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Enlivening the Self by Joseph D. Lichtenberg,Frank M. Lachmann,James L. Fosshage Pdf

In psychoanalysis, enlivenment is seen as residing in a sense of self, and this sense of self is drawn from and shaped by lived experience. Enlivening the Self: The First Year, Clinical Enrichment, and the Wandering Mind describes the vitalizing and enrichment of self-experience throughout the life cycle and shows how active experience draws on many fundamental functional capacities, and these capacities come together in support of systems of motivation; that is, organized dynamic grouping of affects, intentions, and goals. The book is divided into three essays: Infancy – Joseph Lichtenberg presents extensive reviews of observation and research on the first year of life. Based on these reviews, he delineates twelve foundational qualities and capacities of the self as a doer doing, initiating and responding, activating and taking in. Exploratory therapy – James L. Fosshage looks where therapeutic change is entwined with development. There are many sources illustrated for enhancing the sense of self, and Frank M. Lachmann pays particular attention to humor and to the role that the twelve qualities and capacities play in the therapeutic process. The wandering mind – Frank M. Lachmann covers the neuroscience and observation that "mind wandering" is related to the immediacy of the sense of self linking now with past and future. Throughout the book the authors’ arguments are illustrated with rich clinical vignettes and suggestions for clinical practice. This title will be a must for psychoanalysts, including trainees in psychoanalysis, psychiatry residents and candidates at psychoanalytic institutes and also graduate students in clinical and counselling psychology programs.

Author : Nadia Dario,Luca Tateo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031069550

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New Perspectives on Mind-Wandering by Nadia Dario,Luca Tateo Pdf

In the last decade, a great variety and volume of scholarly work has appeared on mind-wandering, a mental process involving a vast range of human life, connected with “first-person perspective” and “personhood”, submental thinking, mental autonomy, etc. While different and emerging features that flow into and out of one another (second field, mental travel, visual imagery, inner speech, unspecific memory, autobiographical memory, fantasies, introspection, etc.) and negative and positive approaches seem to describe mind-wandering, we offer an interdisciplinary theoretical and empirically informed and informative overview on mind-wandering studies and methodologies oriented toward the educational field. The aim is to transform and enrich the debate on mind-wandering but also to show how theoretical arguments and research findings could inform the teaching-learning context. This groundbreaking book, moves along three representations of developed scientific knowledge: imaginary lines, circles and spirals. The first section, “The Lines”, develops new lines of inquiry on attention (selective and sustained) and mind-wandering, the influence of age and mind-wandering, embodiment, consciousness and experience and mind-wandering. In the second section, the “Circles”, groups of Chapters on the same topic, methodology (tasks and measurement), intervention (auditory beat stimulation and mindfulness practices) and creativity, recreate a dance of interacting parts in which there are always profitable, decisive and retroactive exchanges between the information that each group or author activates. The last section, “The Spirals”, critically discusses the absence of a unified theoretical perspective, in the pedagogical field, attentive both to the processes of emergence and the interactions between parts.

Author : Jennifer M. Windt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262028677

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Dreaming by Jennifer M. Windt Pdf

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary consciousness studies. Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research.

Author : Ed Husain
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141041124

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The Islamist by Ed Husain Pdf

When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family. I tried to put my experiences behind me, but as the events of 7/7 unfolded it became clear to me that Islamist groups pose a threat to this country that we - Muslims and non-Muslims alike - do not yet understand. Why are young British Muslims becoming extremists? What are the risks of another home-grown terrorist attack on British soil? By describing my experiences inside these groups, the reasons I joined them and how, after leaving I recovered my faith and mind, I hope to explain the appeal of extremist thought, how fanatics penetrate Muslim communities and the truth behind their agenda of subverting the West and moderate Islam. Writing candidly about life after extremism, I illustrate the depth of the problem that now grips Muslim hearts and minds. I will lay bare what politicians and Muslim 'community leaders' do not want you to know. This is the first time an ex-member openly discusses life within radical Islamic organisations. This is my story.

Author : Netta Weinstein,Heather Hansen,Thuy-vy T. Nguyen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781009256629

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Solitude by Netta Weinstein,Heather Hansen,Thuy-vy T. Nguyen Pdf

Most of us spend a sizable chunk of each day alone. Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits.

Author : Barbro Fröding,Walter Osika
Publisher : Springer
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319235172

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Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue. by Barbro Fröding,Walter Osika Pdf

This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics perspective.

Author : Krish Dhanam
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781618976710

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The American Dream from an Indian Heart by Krish Dhanam Pdf

Become inspired, realize your potential, and live the American Dream, all by reading this book! Writer and motivational speaker Krish Dhanam's guide will become an invaluable resource for anyone searching for a dream and wanting to realize their true potential. The powerful self-help book The American Dream From An Indian Heart is about accomplishing goals. Through hard work, perseverance, and seizing opportunities, Dhanam joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation, which was the first steeping stone to his success.

Author : William Henry De Merle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590294914

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Glenlonely, or, The demon fiend [by W.M. De Merle]. by William Henry De Merle Pdf

Author : Kieran C.R. Fox,Kalina Christoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190464769

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The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought by Kieran C.R. Fox,Kalina Christoff Pdf

Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers "from the mind" or "from the brain" are in fact an incredibly recent understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts - especially the most sudden, insightful, and important - were almost universally ascribed to divine or other external sources. Only in the past few centuries have we truly taken responsibility for their own mental content, and finally localized thought to the central nervous system - laying the foundations for a protoscience of spontaneous thought. But enormous questions still loom: what, exactly, is spontaneous thought? Why does our brain engage in spontaneous forms of thinking, and when is this most likely to occur? And perhaps the question most interesting and accessible from a scientific perspective: how does the brain generate and evaluate its own spontaneous creations? Spontaneous thought includes our daytime fantasies and mind-wandering; the flashes of insight and inspiration familiar to the artist, scientist, and inventor; and the nighttime visions we call dreams. This Handbook brings together views from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, history, education, contemplative traditions, and clinical practice to begin to address the ubiquitous but poorly understood mental phenomena that we collectively call 'spontaneous thought.' In studying such an abstruse and seemingly impractical subject, we should remember that our capacity for spontaneity, originality, and creativity defines us as a species - and as individuals. Spontaneous forms of thought enable us to transcend not only the here and now of perceptual experience, but also the bonds of our deliberately-controlled and goal-directed cognition; they allow the space for us to be other than who we are, and for our minds to think beyond the limitations of our current viewpoints and beliefs.

Author : Felipe De Brigard,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262045438

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Neuroscience and Philosophy by Felipe De Brigard,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Pdf

Philosophers and neuroscientists address central issues in both fields, including morality, action, mental illness, consciousness, perception, and memory. Philosophers and neuroscientists grapple with the same profound questions involving consciousness, perception, behavior, and moral judgment, but only recently have the two disciplines begun to work together. This volume offers fourteen original chapters that address these issues, each written by a team that includes at least one philosopher and one neuroscientist who integrate disciplinary perspectives and reflect the latest research in both fields. Topics include morality, empathy, agency, the self, mental illness, neuroprediction, optogenetics, pain, vision, consciousness, memory, concepts, mind wandering, and the neural basis of psychological categories. The chapters first address basic issues about our social and moral lives: how we decide to act and ought to act toward each other, how we understand each other’s mental states and selves, and how we deal with pressing social problems regarding crime and mental or brain health. The following chapters consider basic issues about our mental lives: how we classify and recall what we experience, how we see and feel objects in the world, how we ponder plans and alternatives, and how our brains make us conscious and create specific mental states.