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The Interaction of Christianity and The Sanbo Kyodan - a Zen-Buddhist Religious Foundation
Hrdý, Miloš ; Červenková, Denisa (advisor) ; Nosek, Lukáš (referee)
"The Interaction of Christianity and the Sanbo Kyodan a Zen-Buddhist Religious Foundation." The Sanbo Kyodan is a contemporary school of Zen that was founded by Yasutani Haku'un Roshi in 1954. Sanbo Kyodan has exerted considerable influence in the development of Zen in the West. Most important for the development of Sanbo Kyodan was Yasutani Roshi's successor, Yamada Koun Roshi. He attracted a number of Western students, many of whom were Christian's priests and nuns. The paper aims to describe the Christian Zen movement influenced by Sanbo Kyodan. Essential is the work of the most important Yamada Koun's students and verified Zen teachers. Among them were three Roman Catholic priests, Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle S.J., Ama Samy S.J. and Willigis Jäger OSB, who went on to become leading figures in the Christian Zen movement. The paper attempts to characterize their understanding of the relation between Zen and Christianity including differences among them. The last part of the paper pays attention to inspiration which comes from interaction of Zen and Christianity, and suggests some points for meditation. Keywords Christianity, Buddhism, Zen, meditation, kensho, Sanbo Kyodan, Haku'un Ryoko Yasutani, Koun Yamada, Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle, Willigis Jäger, Ama Samy
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Mindfulness-based interventions in clinical practice
Chýle, Jaroslav ; Kulišťák, Petr (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with mindfulness-based programs, which are now used in medicine. The theoretical part focuses on their, description, published clinical outcomes, research, mechanisms of action, advantages, pitfalls and their use in clinical practice. The empirical builds on the theoretical part and proposes a research project in the form of a double-blinded randomized controlled study of the influence of MBSR on variables of mental and physical health, with the application of an active control group. Discussion includes reflections on the direction of future research and presents information on current trends, opportunities and challenges facing these interventions. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Clinical Effectiveness of the Schultz Autogenic Training on the Electrical Activity of the Brain
Andová, Veronika ; Žáková, Lenka (advisor) ; Stupková, Michaela (referee)
Title of thesis: Clinical Effectiveness of the Schultz Autogenic Training on the Electrical Activity of the Brain Objectives: The thesis aims to analyze the impact of Schultz autogenic training on brain activity evaluated using EEG Course of action: To obtain the data, an experimental group containing 11 participants aged 20-30, disregarding gender, was created. Participants practiced Schultz autogenic training using the identical audio record once a day during the course of nine weeks. Upon completion of the training, all participants were subjected to one-off measurement by the Nicolet EEG instrument. Brain activity was measured before, during and after the training. Obtained EEG data were processed with NeuroGuide software using coherence analysis and fast Fourier transform. Coherence analysis provided charts mapping the electrical activity of Brodmann areas during the course of all three stages and fast Fourier transform yielded data of performance ratio between theta and alpha frequencies, so called T/A index. Performance ratio of the T/A index was subject to Student's paired t-test in order to draw final conclusion. T/A results show changes in the representation of alpha and theta waves during all measurements. Results: The results of the thesis were used to verify the veracity of stated...
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Altered States of Consciousness
Křečanová, Alena ; Hnilica, Karel (referee) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
This theoretical study contains a systematic analysis of altered states of consciousness. The study is based on a reflection of the qualitative altered states of consciousness, that offers some potential and attempts to describe altered states of consciousness in their complexity as well as to map all their aspects in a structured. It utilises the notion of consciousness to define the altered states of consciousness. The chosen method is to work with literary sources where an emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach. The structure of the thesis is divided into three chapters. The key topic of the first chapter is an examination of the phenomenon of consciousness and interdisciplinary theories of consciousness. The second chapter is focused on the description and analysis of altered states of consciousness, concentrates on the history and methods of research of altered states of consciousness and delineates their basic characteristic and their functions. The last chapter divides the altered states of consciousness into categories and gives them a detailed description. The thesis ends with a final conclusion which brings an integration of the findings above mentioned with the focused on the second chapter. Keywords: consciousness, altered states of consciousness, sleep and dreaming, near...
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Psychotherapeutic methods specialized on managing stress and traumatic situations
Pěkná, Dominika ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Štětková, Petra (referee)
This work deals with methods of managing stress and traumatic situations. The goal of this work is to highlight the importance of psychohygiene in our lives, as a preparation for difficult life situations. The first part of the work explains the terms stress and trauma and represents methods and types of psychotherapy. The second part of the work is focused on more specific themes such as psychotherapeutic work with body, for example bioenergetic method and yoga. Next the work explains the term psychohygiene and it describes it's most important aspects, usable in daily life. At the end the work hightlights the existence of burn-out syndrome as a very common problem of people in helping professions. This work also includes a survey which is made by a questionnaire, which studied the influence of yoga on ability of managing stress situations. A claim, which could be found in many yoga books that the yoga improve this ability, was confirmed in this survey. As a next part there is also noticed the importance of caring about parents of disabled children. Doctors and other professionals often lay huge demands on them, they are made responsible for working on their child's development, but on the other hand no one cares about their own psychotherapy and maintaining their own mental health and well-being.
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Tomanová, Anna ; Hrončeková, Ivana (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
Action focused on an experiment with human physical and psychological balance. Presented work is an experiment based on a week I spent non-stop alone in abandoned factory six meters above the floor balancing on a girder.
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A Journey into the Mind of Martin H.
Helán, Martin ; Houser, Milan (referee) ; Stratil, Václav (advisor)
The main aim of my thesis was to re-establish their former individual creation. When rendering images, I came from my heart that emotionally involved in deciding the final constellation of colors. The resulting series of images is processed oil painting technique using mainly medium formats. The composition of paintings based on geometric abstraction and draw on previous work by increasing the details of their own earlier paintings. The operational objective was to search for color variations that inherently express different emotional states. The work focuses primarily on finding harmonious interplay of color tones.
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Meditation and its impact on quality of life
KREJZOVÁ, Dagmar
The thesis evaluates on the impact of regular meditation practice on the quality of hu-man life. The theoretical part describes the historical development of meditation, meditation from the perspective of science, and the key philosophical and religious trends where the phenomenon of meditation appears. Furthermore in this part, the concept of "quality of life" is described from different angles along with addressing the correlation between meditation and quality of life. The practical part presents the qualitative re-search that analyze regular practice of meditation and its impact on quality of life of respondents.
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