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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Self - mastery"”.
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… exploration in the spiritual conception of the 'self' as divine, a conception previously closed off by medieval orthodox religious and secular traditions. I argue that principal figures in the Renaissance and Restoration—Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton—were engaged in constructing this Hermetic …
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Experiences of Everyday Occupation among People with Psychiatric Disabilities - Relationships to social interaction, the worker role and day centre attendance
… everyday occupations. Having a high level of self-mastery seemed to predict both better occupational value and satisfaction with daily occupation. Better satisfaction with daily occupation was further related with being older and having less general psychopathology. The result from Study III …
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COGNITIVE ADAPTATION AND THE SCHOOLAGER WITH ASTHMA.
… included A Search for Meaning, Restoration of Self-Esteem, and Gaining a Sense of Self-Mastery. Two components of A Search for Meaning included the Impact of Disease and the Cause of Disease. Relating Behaviors-Cooperating Behaviors was the index of social behavior. Forty-five Caucasian …
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Explorations of Wellness and Resilience: A Yoga Intervention for Post-traumatic Stress
… learnt tools to modulate emotions leading to self-mastery. Study limitations are presented with recommendations for future trauma-related research and practice.
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"Svaraj and Self -Reliance: Translating the Self and Its Rule From the ""Bhagavad -Gita"" and ""Manusmr&dotbelow;ti"" to the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi"
… and the Manusmr&dotbelow;ti view the self as the locus of divine authority, but they struggle with the social implications. Jones and Wilkins filtered their translations through a Neoplatonic Christian lens with a liberal Enlightenment tint, while also weakening the political …
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Such painful knowledge: hope and the (un)making of futures in Cape Town
… hopes are indicative of how liberal logics of selfextension, self-mastery, and self-maximisation are inhabited to produce alternative futures. At the same time, however, such hopes are continually undone by contexts of intractable structural violence and deprivation, reinvested into normative …
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
… the formation of Christian practices of self-mastery, and the expansion of Christian imperial power. By exploring how early Christian writers appealed to categories of gender and sexuality to produce Jewish-Christian difference, I aim to contribute to recent scholarship on the variety of …
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Engagement in community-based day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities
… engagement above a medium level, and self-mastery was the only variable associated with belonging to the group with the highest level (> the 75th percentile) of occupational engagement.
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Narrating Hospitality: Salons in French Fiction, 1789–1848
… hostess’s structural relationship with masculine self-mastery and identity; aiming to soften some past assessments of his fiction as misogynist, while noticing the limitations of his wish to see hospitable women valued more highly. Finally, the third chapter explores three texts from Balzac’s …
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Between State and Body: Religious Geopolitics, Cultivation and the Falun Gong
… repression of the Falun Gong, and FLG followers’ self-cultivation and strategies of resistance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PhD begins with a discussion of the Party-State’s strategies of sovereignty and governmentality, drawing upon the works of Foucault and Agamben, and using a …
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Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills
… goal of metacognitive skill-building (cognitive self-mastery, involving knowledge of and control over our own minds) is even possible, given our mental architecture; some cognitive scientists allege that we are subject to phenomenological illusions which make this seem more achievable than it …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… physiology—to envision a new ecological model of selfhood that challenged Enlightenment notions of self-mastery and liberal subjectivity. This process included not only the pathologization of addiction but the emergence of a networked self. My dissertation moves chronologically from the Early …
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A Longitudinal Study of the Stress-buffering Effect of Social Support on Postpartum Depression
… tools and interventions that aimed to enhance self-mastery and self-efficacy are recommended to help new mothers be more resilient in dealing with parental distress and daily hassles. Measures for social support and parenting stress with higher capability of discrimination should be used in …
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The Lamplighter: Strategic Leaders' Views on Leadership
… their contextual experience built on their own self-efficacy and relations with others. It follows that more attention paid to developing self-mastery and strong relationship skills are in order. Since studies on military leadership vice civilian federal service are more likely, the findings …
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Kikuyu Christianity and its Public Role in Kenya, 1891 - 1960
This study on Kikuyu Christianity and its Public Role in Kenya examines the engagement between the Kikuyu of Central Kenya and Christianity during the colonial period. The study sees Central Kenya’s pre-encounter martial tradition and Church of Scotland’s Mission corporeal approach to inculcating …