Unlocking Female Fertility with a Specific Reproductive Exercise Program: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trail by Barbara Petra Kovács, Júlia Balog, Barbara Sebők, Márton Keszthelyi, Szabolcs Várbíró

“…The 70 min full body “reproductive gymnastics”, includes strengthening, stretching, and relaxation exercises combined with yoga-inspired moves and diaphragmatic breathing with meditation elements to activate the parasympathetic pathway and stress relief. …”
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Evaluation of Therapeutic Potential of Yoga Practice in Managing Hypertension Based on Cardiopulmonary Efficiency and Physical Fitness by Ruchi Kothari, Ashay Gomashe, Bala C. Bethamcherla, Nithila Sivakumar, Lakshiya Ramamoorthy, Lakshmi Murugesan

“…Yoga, an ancient Indian practice, enhances physical, mental, and spiritual well-being through postures, breathing exercises, and meditation. This study examines yoga’s potential to lower blood pressure by increasing VO2 Max, a critical cardiovascular fitness indicator. …”
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JEANAS PAULIS SARTRE'AS: "PONO-VERGO" DIALEKTIKA IR SOLIPSIZMO ĮVEIKOS ILGESYS by Jūratė Baranova

“…Why Sartre, starting from Husserl, does not accept the relation between Me and the Other as alter ego explicated in the fifth Cartesian Meditation? Why he turns toward the dialectics of "master-slave" found in the Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Hegel? …”
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COVID-19 PANDEMIC: STRENGTHENING THE IMMUNITY BY REENGINEERING AMONG MENTAL HEALTH TANGLES by Priyaranjan Maral, Deepa Punetha, Usha Kiran Subba

“…To achieve good mental health and a strong immunity system, maintaining the homeostasis of mind and body, engagement in close connections, and social support, using low-stressor techniques, nearness to the environment, practicing Yoga and meditation, infusing positivity, and following healthy lifestyles are necessary for people. …”
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Cross-sectional study on the risk of breast cancer and practices among young women in Central India by Arti Tiwari, Maharaj Singh, Bharati Sahu, Shatrughan Pareek

“…Furthermore, approximately 91% did not follow weight management strategies, and 38.4% practiced meditation for stress reduction. Moreover, among the 250 young women surveyed, 218 (87.2%) did not engage in regular physical exercise (at least 3 h/week). …”
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Bilinçli Farkındalık (Mindfulness) ve Perinatal Ruh Sağlığı: Bir Sistematik Derleme by Nevin Hotun Şahin, Özge Şiir Dağlar

“…Literatür taraması için “Mindfulness”, “Meditation”, “Pregnancy”, “Prenatal”, “Perinatal” ve “Postpartum” anahtar kelimeleri kullanılmıştır. …”
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A Hybrid Model for Assessing the Performance of Medical Tourism: Integration of Bayesian BWM and Grey PROMETHEE-AL by Chin-Cheng Yang, Chih-Chien Shen, Tso-Yen Mao, Huai-Wei Lo, Chun-Jui Pai

“…The scope of medical treatments covers dentistry, surgery, antiaging procedures, preventive medicine, and even some health-related treatments (meditation, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, addiction treatment, psychiatry, etc.). …”
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PERCEIVING THE SACRED FEMININE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CYCLADIC FIGURINES AND JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES by T. V. Danylova

“…These ancient images can be used for introspection, art therapy, active imagination, meditation, mindfulness. Conclusions. The results show that the Cycladic figurines have had a huge impact on the artists of the 20th century and continue to influence our contemporaries due to the emotional response they evoke in the unconscious, which conceals the primordial features of the ancient mind. …”
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Use of integrative and complementary practices and the quality of life of undergraduate nursing students by Gabrielli Sousa dos Santos, Marcella Cecílio de Almeida, Raquel Valente de Souza, Joyce Assunção Barros, Adriana Cristina Nicolussi

“…The most used therapies were homeopathy, flower essence therapy, meditation, yoga, music therapy, and reiki. Regarding quality of life, when comparing the groups, students who engaged in integrative practices had higher mean scores in all domains compared to those who did not. …”
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Is Tele-yoga Safe for Pregnant Women with First-trimester Uterine Artery Doppler Positive? A Feasibility Study by Reshma Jogdand, Satyapriya Maharana, Kasinath G Metri, B. S. Anuradha, R Nagarthan

“…The yoga module consisted of simple yoga postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. Enrollment, attrition, retention, adverse events, difficulties in practicing yoga, and subjective experience were assessed at the completion of 2 months. …”
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Mindfulness-based (non-contact) boxing therapy (MBBT) for depression and anxiety: A feasibility study. by Johny Bozdarov, Brett D M Jones, Madeha Umer, Daniel M Blumberger, Ishrat M Husain

“…MBBT is an instructor-led, manualized, non-contact boxing group-exercise program (delivered in 90 min sessions, twice a week, over 10 weeks) that blends principles of mindfulness, meditation and group therapy. The current study tested the acceptability and feasibility of delivering MBBT to adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).…”
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The black female body: Representation of the erotic in contemporary visual art in Africa by Tayler FRIAR

“…To accomplish this, it will present several fundamental arguments that feed into black feminist interrogations of the body including a meditation on body politics and gender being rewritten into the colonial paradigm. …”
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Machine and Deep Learning Models for Stress Detection Using Multimodal Physiological Data by Eman Abdelfattah, Shreehar Joshi, Shreekar Tiwari

“…This study employs machine learning and deep learning techniques on multimodal dataset from wearable sensors, focusing on processed metrics for the three-axis acceleration (ACC), electrocardiogram (ECG), blood volume pulse (BVP), body temperature (TEMP), respiration (RESP), electromyogram (EMG), and electrodermal activity (EDA) from the 15 subjects in the WESAD dataset to effectively classify four different states – baseline, stress, amusement, and meditation. Seven traditional machine learning algorithms – Logistic Regression, Gaussian Naïve Bayes Classifier, AdaBoost Classifier, XGB Classifier, Decision Trees Classifier, Extra Trees Classifier, and Random Forest Classifier and three widely used deep learning algorithms – Deep Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Network were trained and tested on the dataset on two phases to predict the state of different subject at any given time. …”
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Yogic Practices as a Complementary Approach to Physical Fitness: An Intervention Study by Tarak Nath Pramanik, Aminur Rahaman, Gopal Chandra Saha, Anupam Roy, Punam Pradhan

“…The experimental group underwent a six-week yogic intervention, including asanas, pranayama, and meditation, conducted daily under the guidance of certified instructors. …”
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Differential Impact of Stress Reduction Programs upon Ambulatory Blood Pressure among African American Adolescents: Influences of Endothelin-1 Gene and Chronic Stress Exposure by Mathew J. Gregoski, Vernon A. Barnes, Martha S. Tingen, Yanbin Dong, Haidong Zhu, Frank A. Treiber

“…Following genotyping, completion of questionnaire battery, and 24-hour ABP monitoring, participants were randomized to health education control (HEC), life skills training (LST), or breathing awareness meditation (BAM). Postintervention ABP was obtained. …”
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Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Strategies among Couples for Sustainable Family Survival in Oyo State, Nigeria by Taiwo Adekemi Akinyemi, Olajide Olatunde Adeola, Halimot Omobola Toriola

“…The study shows that 59.9% of respondents practice mindfulness and meditation, while 34.8% seek mental health advice. 21.7% are aware of local mental support services. …”
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« Who’s there ? » by Jean-Pierre Richard

“…A l’inverse, Fatheralong impose d’abord une longue « méditation » sur la notion de « race », rejetée par l’auteur, avant d’invoquer le cas particulier d’un père et de ses fils.Toutefois cette différence dans l’approche — psychologique et raciale chez Gaines, philosophique et non-raciale chez Wideman — ne se révèle être, à l’examen des textes, qu’un mouvement apparent, à la surface des mots. …”
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Living through the psychological consequences of COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of effective mitigating interventions by Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Angkana Lekagul, Chawisa Suradom, Peeraya Piancharoen, Anamika Chattong

“…Most interventions for anxiety and stress were mindfulness and meditation based.Conclusions Results from RCT studies (11%, 78.6%) were effective in mitigating psychological consequences from COVID-19 pandemic when applied to healthcare workers, patients with COVID-19 and general population. …”
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Vicarious trauma, coping strategies and nurses' health outcomes: An exploratory study by Ilenia Piras, Vanessa Usai, Paolo Contu, Maura Galletta

“…A moderation analysis showed that positive coping strategies such as physical activity, reading/music, and yoga/meditation showed to be protective in reducing the effect of vicarious traumas on the nurses' mental health problems. …”
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Рrospects for the development of retreat tourism in Ukraine by Irina Shamara, Hanna Haponenko, Olena Yevtushenko, Tymur Vygovskyi

“…Thus, a phenomenon has appeared in society that has become to some extent a "spiritual" trend and is the root of all world spiritual and physical practices, which includes various types of meditation - this is "retreat tourism", which implies a combination of various spiritual and physical practices in places remote from society, as a rule, where means of communication are not used. …”
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