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A. First, take note of the moods you’ve experienced:
I have been feeling disconnected from the surroundings, as though I haven’t slept for quite a while. Myriad thoughts are passing around my mind, but I can’t concentrate on a single point.
B. Assess your overall level of anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10
5.5
C. Assess the level of physical tension in your body- where do you notice the tension? Try rating your overall tension on a scale of 1 to 10:
I am feeling a bit sleepy. Tired and exhausted.
III. After you have finished your meditation, re-asses your state of mind and body.
A. Reassess your mood on the chart.
After the mediation, I feel single-minded and relaxed. A not-too-common pairing!
B. Reassess your level of anxiety from 1 to 10.
1.5
C. Reasses your level of physical tension and rate it from 1 to 10.
2.25
IV. Describe the experience– What type of meditation did you choose? Describe what was going on in your mind and your body, what kind of thoughts and sensations did you experience during the meditation? Were there any challenging or frustrating aspects of the experience, and if so, what were they? Would you try this again in the future? Why or why not?
I choose a guided body scan meditation, which seems to have suited well with a beginner like me. I had to record my body sensation. I focused on my breathing , allowing stomach to rise as you inhale and fall as I exhale. This meditation process eventually helps me to purge unnecessary feelings. As a result, I could concentrate more on the physiological and psychological changes. When I finished the meditation, I found myself unusually calm and single-minded. As it was my first meditation, I enjoyed the controlling of thought. That is to say, I didn’t find meditation frustrating. I hope to try this again future for these very reasons.
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I am Nazmul Sagar. This is my second semester in Baruch. I am supposed to do a major in Philosophy. My areas of interests are continental philosophy, political philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary criticism. Speaking about psychology, I consider the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis as one of the most important events of twentieth century. Among the psychoanalysts, I am most interested about Jacques Lacan, whose re-interpretation of Freud is no less pathbreaking than the Freud-event itself. My approach to psychoanalysis, so to speak, is mediated by philosophical concerns. Looking forward to having interaction with you all!
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"* When one will lose his/her memory, it's not probable that s/he will feel same affinity with friends and families. It doesn't seem easy to regain the memories that were lost by mere re-learning of one's life-events. Even if one can successfully retrieve the entire data of previous self without internalizing them, I doubt how much will it help to get back to previous self.
*If I were a friend of the author, I would try to nurture a relation that is not subordinated to the memory of a friendship. I would help her to construct her new life with a slow reclamation of bygone memories as well as by encouraging him/her to capitalize what is given to us at this given moment"
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Who am I vs Who I was"I doubt about the possibility of recovering memory chronologically, since memory is more of a constellation of events/feelings than a linear progression. In addition, I think it would be difficult for you to feel--and not merely knowing---your erstwhile memory if you don't contemplate in the fleeting memories.
I would if feel sorry for my friend, needless to say. This event will be tantamount to a cognitive shock---disrupting my ontological coordinates. The changed image of my friend would definitely thrashed me to some basic reconsideration about life.
I would help my friend with psychological supports, apart from helping him/her to recover bygone memories.
The processing of old memories anew would transform them into different memories. Only if (s)he could recover the memory in their actual form, then she would be able to return to his/her own self."
posted on Oct 26, 2011, on the post Retracing The Steps"Good model, Mr. Akuffo.
Your hypothesis looks good. But the question is how would you incorporate the distinction between mature and non-mature students on your model. It also seems that if only students are independent variable---and not professors--then you will have difficulty to measure the relation between independent and dependent variable.
May be you can opt for more effective survey system, in addition to phone-interview. It should be guaranteed that every participants are examined in a similar way. That, however, might not be the case if you solely depend on phone-interview.
Thank You."
posted on Oct 11, 2011, on the post Are students capable to be allowed to revalue their professors?"It seems to me that correlational study won't shed much light on this specific query. You write: "I hypothesize that people who spend less time studying will experience less health issues because not only does studying reduce your hours of sleep, but also causes stress." But the problem is: how could you account for the indeterminacy associated with this model? Those who study less mostly work more, for example. Excessive study may also be accompanied by proper amount of physical exercise. So, I would suggest you to determine the other factors so that you can concentrate more on the specific correlation."
posted on Oct 11, 2011, on the post Education vs. Health"Hypothesis: if everything remains equal, it seems the healthy food eaters will do better in general, as they will consume foods that won't cause regular sickness or defects associated with the junk foods.
It is not clear whether it is an experimental or a correlational research proposal. If any case, the researcher may think of laying stress on how the sample of students will be selected. There should be a balance between well-performing and low-performing students in both group.
In case of a research reduplication, the researcher may think about incorporating other variables such as amount of food consumption, the place of living, working hours etc as the constant variable in both cases (in case of experimental research)"
posted on Oct 3, 2011, on the post student who eat healthier will perform better"Nice to know about you, Amaraa! I remember seeing the Mongolian "The Story of the Weeping Camel." Have you seen that?"
posted on Sep 24, 2011, on the post Hello!"Hello Abhinaya,
I am from Bangladesh. I hope Bengali is among the three Indian languages that you speak. I have been planning about learning French. May be you can provide me with some advice about learning French!"
posted on Sep 24, 2011, on the post Hello!"Hello Abhinaya! Your surname looks like a south Indian one..am I right?
What are those languages that you speak?"
posted on Sep 23, 2011, on the post Hello!"Nice to know about you, Lukasz. Tell us something about the oldest coin in your collection :)"
posted on Sep 19, 2011, on the post Hello :)
