Forskningen har visat att meditation fo?r med sig stora fo?rdelar fo?r uto?varen men det saknas helta?ckande kunskap om vad det a?r i meditationen som a?r sa? gynnsam. Vi testade da?rfo?r zen- buddhismens pa?sta?ende om att ryggens position gynnar va?r koncentrationsfo?rma?ga. Detta skedde genom att underso?ka sambandet mellan kroppsposition, koncentrationsfo?rma?ga och minne.

Aim: The aim of this study was to highlighting the experiences of individuals of non-pharmacological treatment for chronic pain.Method: The study was designed as a literature review with aim to review andcompile the articles results. This study has been based on a systematic literature search of supplementing out of an unsystematic search were 11 articles were found.Results: The participants in the studies had experienced a good effect out of non-pharmacological treatments for their pain and a improved quality of life. Based on participants´ experiences of treatment two categories occurred: body awareness and relaxation. Body awareness arose through treatments like yoga, mindfulness meditation and CBT. Relaxation occurred through treatments, like music, heat, massage and meditation.Conclusion: This study highlights how non-pharmacological treatments is experienced by individuals with chronic pain and two key areas have been identified.

The United States is one of few Western nations that administers capital punishment to their condemned criminals. Texas has executed the most inmates of any state in the U.S. This prompted questions about the psychological characteristics of death row inmates. The purpose of this essay is to widen the perspective on inmates serving capital sentences by analyzing their final statements. The focus of this essay was centered on acute anxiety of death among inmates, visible in their final statements, as a result of an accelerated process of dying.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness training in the treatment of chronic pain, estimate the degree of mindfulness before and after intervention, and to describe the participants experience of mindfulness training. Mindfulness is defined as moment to moment, non-judgmental awareness. After the treatment of chronic pain 16 patients were offered and nine agreed to participate in mindfulness training. The intervention group took part in an 8-week group-program. The comparison group, not randomized, was 16 former patients.

ADORABLE CHILD OF ITS TIMEThis text will describe a inovative project about material, traditions and someideas about furniture for work in an home inviroment. The content is partlyabout exploring ancient marine- and textile techniques to find somethinguseful for furniture of the twenty first century. It is also about the designprocess of creating a sustainable piece of furniture that questions the paradigmathicsabout usage and the context about manufacturing furniture.The text will briefly describe the design process and then reason about theresult in a deeper sense. Questions that has been considered from the verybeginning of the project as well as those one stumbled across during theevolution of the work will be objectives for the discussion. The result will bein focus as a foundation for the discussion and also the values and issuesabout that.

Den frågeställning som denna uppsats ska besvara är följande: Vad har bönen för innebörd bland medlemmar inom Missionskyrkan i Gävle, privat och i gudstjänsten, och vad menas egentligen med bön enligt dem?Mitt mål med uppsatsen är att på ett beskrivande sätt försöka ta reda på om bönens innebörd bland aktiva, troende människor inom Missionskyrkan idag. Jag kommer att redogöra för vad bönen används till, hur den används och vad som egentligen menas med begreppet bön. Jag har försökt att göra det på ett enkelt sätt för att få det förståeligt även för den som inte har en djupare insikt i religionsvetenskap eller i teologi. Men också så att den som har det ska få ut något av uppsatsen..

Ett växande problem i dagens urbana samhälle är stressrelaterade sjukdomar och utmattningssyndrom. Den psykiska ohälsan är ett folkhälsoproblem som medför lidande hos individen och kostnader både för den drabbade och för samhället. En behandlingsmetod som under senare år blivit vanligare vid rehabilitering av psykisk ohälsa är trädgårdsterapi. Metoden grundar sig i det faktum att människor återhämtar sig fortare vid vistelse i natur- och grönområden. Inom fältet trädgårdsterapi fi nns olika skolor som förklarar naturens välgörande egenskaper med olika utgångspunkt. Vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet i Alnarp har en egen form av trädgårdsterapi utarbetats som baseras på forskning av professor och miljöpsykolog Patrik Grahn.

The purpose of this essay is to discuss relationality in G.W Leibnizs Monadologie (1714). In general terms this essay analyzes the notion of individuation in relation to the concept of monads. The analysis proposes a question regarding the body in this individuation, and what consequences follows for the understanding of the relation between the single individual and other individuals. It will be shown that the irreducibility of having a body transcendens something like ownness, subjectivity, personality and individuation, and this is explained through the pre-established harmony between the monads ? where the plurality of monads is detected before the monads singularity. To widen this investigation of relationality between the monads, I will turn to Edmund Husserls phenomenological operation for solving the egological problem of solipsism in Cartesian Meditations (1929). In his meditations, Husserl uses the monad as a self-conscious ego with peculiar ownness.

Vad är det för skillnad mellan folkmusikaliskt fiolspel och klassiskt violinspel? Syftet med arbetet var att tydliggöra några av de interpretatoriska skillnaderna mellan folkmusik och romantisk musik. Undersökningen gjordes genom instudering av ett romantiskt stycke och en folkmusiklåt med hjälp av lärarhandledning, lyssning på inspelningar och reflektioner kring stilmedlen. Efter tillägnandet av de båda interpretationssättet gjordes en omvänd interpretation. Folkmusiklåten spelades enligt romantisk interpretation och det romantiska stycket spelades med det folkliga spelsättet.

Dialektisk Beteendeterapi (DBT) är en beforskad behandling avsedd för personer med borderline personlighetsstörning. Medveten närvaro (mindfulness) ingår som en del i DBT. Det är oklart hur de olika delarna i behandlingen påverkar helhetseffekten av DBT. Syftet med denna studie var att se i vilken utsträckning patienter som avslutat DBT-behandling för minst 6 månader sedan använder sig av medveten närvaro och om detta användande har samband med ökat välbefinnande och minskade borderlinesymtom. Korrelationer och multipel regressionsanalys användes för att undersöka dessa samband.

This is a study about the communication interaction in the context of the reference work at some public university-libraries and some private company libraries in Gothenburg and Borås. The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the communication interaction in a library situation. The second purpose is to deepen the knowledge, understanding and to establish what is important in this communication. Focus has been on how the intermediaries communicate and how she or he perceives this communication. The intermediary needs to manage the communication with all the different patrons and different information needs of the patrons.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att titta på yoga som terapi. Finns det en förening mellan kropp och själ? Alltså, att kartlägga sambandet och dess betydelse i yogan.Jag har använt mig av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod då jag intervjuat fem personer, fyra kvinnor och en man. Utifrån det perspektiv jag valt så ligger intervjuerna till grund för studien. En kvalitativ metod har som mål att erhålla nyanserade beskrivningar av olika kvalitativa aspekter av den intervjuades livsvärld, den arbetar med ord och inte siffror.

The aim of this essay is to discuss the meaning of the human and its possible overcoming in Friedrich Nietzsche?s doctrine of the eternal recurrence of the same, with Martin Heidegger?s readings of Nietzsche as point of departure.According to Heidegger, Nietzsche?s doctrine of the eternal recurrence of the same represents the end of occidental metaphysical thinking. The thought concludes a thinking of being as the presence of beings, where the original question of being was never developed out of its own ground.But at the heart of this interpretation, often considered ?violent?, lies the question of whether man is able to think being out of his finitude. This is the question I will unfold, through a reading of Nietzsche?s thought of the eternal recurrence of the same, as it is presented in his Thus spoke Zarathustra, as an attempt to think beings in their being beyond a ?humanization? of them, expressed in transcendental aims, purposes and categories.

What is the?self? and to become ?one-self?? To resolve this questions possibility I´ve been using the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard metaphysic paradoxes. This essay about the ?self? shows the reader the difference between describing a transcendent and immanent phenomenon and if it´s possible to become or to not become ourselves. The process is a key of the ?self? which Kierkegaard explains the ?self? in and for it-self.

This paper is intended to provide a picture of which associations water can wake in the human mind from the perspectives of garden history as well as from that of environmental psychology. I hope to paint a fairly broad picture of our perception of water that can serve as a basis for discussion and as a starting point for different forms of design work in landscape architecture. The historical perspective emphasizes the importance of water as a condition for the emergence of gardens and in a wider perspective the importance of water in early cultures. Also, I describe a picture of how water has been used throughout the history of gardens from early Egypt to the baroque era. The garden history analyzed from an art historical perspective gives a picture of human associations to water, and the history behind these associations is presented. As a compliment to the art history approach, I have chosen to highlight our associations with water from the perspectives of environmental psychology and evolutionary science.