Studying the effect of Heartfulness Meditation on Brain Activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Gupta ◽  
Jahnavi Mundluru ◽  
Arth Patel ◽  
Shankar Pathmakanthan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Guided Relaxation

Long-term meditation practice is increasingly recognized for its health benefits. Heartfulness meditation represents a quickly growing set of practices that is largely unstudied. Heartfulness is unique in that it is a meditation practice that focuses on the Heart. It helps individuals to connect to themselves and find inner peace. In order to deepen ones’ meditation, the element of Yogic Energy (‘pranahuti’) is used as an aid during meditation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether consistent EEG effects of Heartfulness meditation be observed in sixty experienced Heartfulness meditators, each of whom attended 6 testing sessions. In each session, participants performed three conditions: a set of cognitive tasks, Heartfulness guided relaxation, and Heartfulness Meditation. Participants during the cognitive portion were required to answer questions that tested their logical thinking (Cognitive Reflective Test) and creative thinking skills. (Random Associative Test) The order of condition was randomly counter balanced across six sessions. It was hypothesized that Heartfulness meditation would bring increased alpha (8-12Hz) brain activity during meditation and better cognitive task scores in sessions where the tasks followed meditation. Heartfulness meditation produces a significant decrease in brain activity (as indexed by higher levels of alpha during the early stages of meditation. As the meditation progressed deep meditative state (as indexed by higher levels of delta) were observed until the end of the condition.  This lead to the conclusion that Heartfulness Meditation produces a state that is clearly distinguishable from effortful problem solving. 

12. Studying the effect of Heartfulness Meditation on Brain Activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Gupta ◽  
Anirudh Kumar ◽  
Jahnavi Mundluru ◽  
Arth Patel ◽  
Shankar Pathmakanthan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Guided Relaxation

Long-term meditation practice is increasingly recognized for its health benefits. Heartfulness meditation represents a quickly growing set of practices that is largely unstudied. Heartfulness is unique in that it is a meditation practice that focuses on the Heart. It helps individuals to connect to themselves and find inner peace. In order to deepen ones’ meditation, the element of Yogic Energy (‘pranahuti’) is used as an aid during meditation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether consistent EEG effects of Heartfulness meditation be observed in sixty experienced Heartfulness meditators, each of whom attended 6 testing sessions. In each session, participants performed three conditions: a set of cognitive tasks, Heartfulness guided relaxation, and Heartfulness Meditation. Participants during the cognitive portion were required to answer questions that tested their logical thinking (Cognitive Reflective Test) and creative thinking skills. (Random Associative Test) The order of condition was randomly counter balanced across six sessions. It was hypothesized that Heartfulness meditation would bring increased alpha (8-12Hz) brain activity during meditation and better cognitive task scores in sessions where the tasks followed meditation. Heartfulness meditation produces a significant decrease in brain activity (as indexed by higher levels of alpha during the early stages of meditation. As the meditation progressed deep meditative state (as indexed by higher levels of delta) were observed until the end of the condition.  This lead to the conclusion that Heartfulness Meditation produces a state that is clearly distinguishable from effortful problem solving. 

scholarly journals Effects of Online Problem-Solving Instruction and Identification Attitude Toward Instructional Strategies on Students' Creativity

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Basic Competencies ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Independent Thinking

Problem-solving ability is an essential part of daily life. Thus, curiosity and a thirst for knowledge should be cultivated in students to help them develop problem solving and independent thinking skills. Along with positive attitudes and an active disposition, these abilities are needed to solve problems throughout the lifespan and develop -confidence. To achieve educational objectives in the context of globalization, creative ability is necessary for generating competitive advantages. Therefore, creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solving ability are important basic competencies needed for future world citizens. Creativity should also be integrated into subject teaching to cultivate students' lifelong learning and a creative attitude toward life. A questionnaire was distributed to 420 students in colleges and universities in Fujian, China. After removing invalid and incomplete responses, 363 copies were found to be valid yielding a response rate of 86%. Findings indicate that the new generation requires high levels of support to develop creativity and integrate diverse subjects such as nature, humanities, and technology. A rich imagination is needed to root creativity in the new generation.

scholarly journals EFEKTIVITAS PENGGUNAAN MODEL OPEN-ENDED PROBLEM TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KREATIF DAN KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH SISWA PADA PEMBELAJARAN FISIKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Heko Akbar Ahmad ◽  
Desy Hanisa Putri ◽  
Connie Connie
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Problem Model ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Creative Thinking Ability

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bagaimana efektivitas penggunaan model open-ended problem terhadap  kemampuan berpikir kreatif dan kemampuan pemecahan masalah. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Pre Experimental Design dengan tipe one group pretest postest design. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap kemampuan berpikir kreatif  (thitung = 31,47 lebih besar dari ttabel = 1,69) dan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa (thitung = 4, 95 lebih besar dari ttabel = 1,69) yang diajarkan menggunakan model open-ended problem   untuk variabel kemampuan berpikir kreatif dan  variabel kemampuan pemecahan masalah. Dengan hasil uji N-gain sebesar 0,74 untuk kemampuan berpikir kreatif dan 0,63 untuk uji N-gain pada kemampuan pemecahan masalah sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa model open-ended problem  efektif diterapkan pada kemampuan berpikir kreatif dan kemampaun pemecahan maalah siswa. Kata kunci : Open-Ended Problem, Kemampuan Berpikir Kreatif, Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah This research was aimed to explain how the effectiveness of using the open-ended problem model  on creative thinking skills and problem solving abilities. The type of this research was Pre Experimental Design with one group pretest posttest design. The results showed that there was a significant effect on creative thinking skills (tcount = 31.47 which is greater than ttable = 1.69) and students' problem solving abilities (tcount = 4, 95 which is greater than ttable = 1.69), who were taught to use the open-ended problem model for creative thinking ability variables and problem solving ability variables. With the results of the N-gain test of 0.74 for the creative thinking skills and 0.63 for the N-gain test on problem solving abilities, it can be concluded that the open-ended problem model is effectively applied to creative thinking skills and students' problem solving abilities. Keywords: Open-Ended Problem, Creative Thinking Skills, Problem Solving Ability 

scholarly journals INTEGRATING SOFT SKILLS INTO TEACHING ORGANIZING EVENTS SUBJECT AT SCHOOL OF STATE MANAGEMENT, OFFICE ADMINISTRATION, AND TOURISM – TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-234
Author(s):  
Tuan Minh Chau
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
State Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teamwork Skills

The article presents the importance of integrating soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge. Through the article, the author presents the importance of Organizing Events subject as well as shows that Organizing Events is a subject that requires learners to have many skills such as: independent working skills, teamwork skills, creative thinking skills; coordination skills, problem-solving skills, listening skills and some other skills. All the skills mentioned above are applied to Organizing Events at each stage, each activity when organizing the event. In order for students to effectively apply the skills into the subject, teachers can design lectures, provide exercises in accordance with the content of the subject, divide each stage so that it can be further taught helping students grasp each content, thereby being able to best use the subject when designing each profile for the assumed event and students have to practice organizing events according to reality. Besides, the articlealso emphasizes that integrating soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge is a necessity, from the reality of the Organizing Events subject.

scholarly journals Analysis of Science Teacher Candidates’ Relation between Scientific Creative Thinking Skills, Creative Problem Solving and Project Development Skills

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01059
Author(s):  
Sibel Demir Kaçan ◽  
Fatma Şahin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Project Development ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Experimental Group

The research aims to determine the “relationship between the scientific creative thinking skills and creative problem solving and project development skills of candidate science teachers.” The research was performed with 24 teacher candidates in the control group and 24 teacher candidates in the experimental group in the second class of the Department of Science Teaching in a university in Istanbul Province. In the experimental group of the research, the laboratory program to be designed by the researchers on the basis of scientific discussion and research; and in the control group, the conventionally designed laboratory program were applied for 14 weeks. The research data was gained through “Self-Assessment for Creativity Questionnaire” to be developed by Raudsepp [28] and adapted by Sungur [30] into Turkish with the reliability value by Gülel [11]; two projects which were “the kite project”, “bridge project from spaghetti macaroni” and “personal interviews”. The conclusions to be reached by the research are in favour of the experimental group and the last application. While it was found that the project development processes of the candidate teachers in the experiment group had an important impact on their scientific creativity, the positive opinions of the candidate teachers were also found.

scholarly journals Kemampuan Berpikir Kreatif Ditinjau dari Self Regulated Learning dengan Pendekatan Open-Ended Pada Model Pembelajaran Creative Problem Solving

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Salahuddin Akbar Agus Panuntun Hsm ◽  
Mohammad Asikin ◽  
Budi Waluya ◽  
Zaenuri Zaenuri
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Cps Model

The ability to think creatively is very important to be developed in students, especially when learning is starting to shift to blended learning where students are required to be able to organize portions and also how to learn independently, for this reason, students in this era need to grow their creative abilities to be able to keep up with educational developments. This study aims to conduct studies related to factors that can foster creative thinking skills. The research method used in this study is the SLR (Systematic Literture Review) method. Data collection is done by collecting similar research articles and limiting it to the topic of mathematical creative thinking skills. The articles used in this study were 20 articles with the topic of creative thinking skills. Based on the literature review, the most influencing factors in creative thinking skills are problem-based models and open-ended approaches. For this reason, using the CPS model with an open-ended approach will provide a model with a new alternative approach that can be tried to improve creative thinking skills.

scholarly journals HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS DALAM KOMPETENSI DASAR BAHASA ARAB

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muradi ◽  
Faisal Mubarak ◽  
Ridha Darmawaty ◽  
Arif Rahman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills

Learning Arabic is more dominant as a skill than a Science. The learners’ goals are able to use Arabic both spoken and written well and correctly. While HOTS is more dominant in requiring learners to think integrally. Therefore, it is important to consider the extent to which the Ministerial Regulation accommodates HOTS through a study of the basic competence of Arabic contained in it. This study is a literature review of the basic competence of Arabic in the Decree of the Minister of Religion (KMA) number 183 in 2019 in HOTS perspective. The object of this study is the basic competence of Arabic in KMA 183 in 2019. The result shows the basic competence of Arabic in KMA 183 in 2019 to accommodate the ability in higher order thinking such as problem solving, critical thinking, and reasoning. While the Basic Competence in KMA didn’t achieve creative thinking and decision making.

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