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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"mandala"”.
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The 'Mandala' philosophy of music for South African schools
… culminating in the philosophical roots of the 'Mandala' approach to music. The 'Mandala' philosophy of music is based on Carl Jung's psychoanalytic theory as well as David Elliott's 'praxial' philosophy of music. The 'Mandala' philosophy of music rests upon two main tenets namely; that music is …
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Using mindful mandala making to ground and center military spouses
… levels of distress before making the mandala, after making the mandala, and after viewing the mandala for a period of 7 days. The results of this study confirmed the hypothesis that mindful mandala making and viewing will center and ground military spouses decreasing psychological …
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Assessigng Mandala Art in an Adolescent Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Features
… disorder. It explores the therapeutic process of mandala making and introduces assessing mandala art in an female adolescent diagnosed with borderline personality features. Measures included defining the subject’s self-destructive and assertive behaviors and a scale that rated the degree of …
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An Exploration of the Soothing Affects of the Mandala on an Adolescent Population
… The experimental group received a circular (mandala) shaped guide to trace on paper. Each group was told to then draw whatever they wished on the paper.</p> <p>A T-Test was used to measure the results. Scores were combined and statistical results indicated that the frequency of angles in …
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Opening the Heart
It is my discovery of the mandala that has had the most significant influence on me as an artist. The mandala, Sanskrit word for circle or center, is found in a majority of my pieces, either literally or symbolically. My interest in and subsequent use of the mandala began twenty years ago and …
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Journeys of Resilience: Awareness of Self-Strength and Coping in the Young Adult Alopecia Areata Population Through Madala Art Therapy
… in awareness of one’s resilient core through a Mandala Art Therapy study rooted in Solution Focused Therapy and psycho-education of Resiliency. The participants would also be measured for factors of Alexithymia and determine factors around Mood. The study was a quasi-experimental, …
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New light on E.E. Cummings' drama, Him
… This picture is a unique psychological rebus-mandala. The rebus concept of the ancient Chinese picture puzzle was used by Freud as an indicator of mental illness and progressive cure. The related mandala was adopted by Carl Jung as a universal logo or archetypal symbol of the transcending …
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A turbulent diatom vs dinoflagellate phytoplankton biomass model
… to dinoflagellates is given by Margalef’s Mandala which attributes the successional change to the interaction between turbulence and available nutrient concentration. This study introduced a simple variable accounting for the effects of turbulence to a numerical model describing diatom and …
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The experiences of hospice patients and the music therapy clinician in hospice care
… observations, and one of the participant's mandala. Data was analyzed according to Moustakas' modification of the Stevick - Colaizzi - Keen method of Transcendental Phenomenology. Experiences for the hospice patients include themes of Positive Experience with Music, Positive Experience with …
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O clube de pais leitores do Agrupamento Vertical de Maria Lamas
… para a cidadania de todos os intervenientes. A Mandala “A Magia da Palavra”, que acompanha cada uma das dez actividades descritas, constituiu-se como ideia geradora e dela nasceu uma outra Mandala, a Mandala espiralante do Clube dos Pais Leitores, traduzindo valores e sentimentos comuns que …
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Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: Attuning skills in self-awareness to promote self-care for Art Therapy practitioners a mixed-methods study using a Mandala art directive and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
… Commitment Therapy (ACT) with a structured Mandala art directive can help Art Therapy professionals and students increase their level of focused awareness and help attune skills in self-care. This study will employ a Mixed Methods research design approach with both quantitative and …
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A Market in Nairobi
… of the geometric circle made the building. The mandala studies were subjective manipulations of the archetypal circle made to explore and develop the architecture. This became a Market in Nairobi.
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Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study
… A number of songs contain texts that evoke a mandala or symbolic representation of the world according to Vajrayana Buddhist iconography, ritual and meditative visualization practices. These mandala descriptions depict the social order of the kingdom, descending from the heavens, to the …
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The Psychological Related Effects of Children Creating Mandalas
… that art therapy, specifically creating mandalas was physiologically relaxing for elementary school aged children. A thermal monitor was attached to the non-dominant wrist of the study subjects in order to record peripheral wrist temperature. Pulse was taken prior to and after each groups …
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Sound emanating from the Self : an investigation of the role sound and music in the healing of disturbed Self states
… of sound contains within it innate archetypal mandala formations. These mandalas are expressed by the mother in the mother-infant dyad in the form of musical mandalas and serve to link the post-uterine Self of the infant with that of the Self of the mother. The initial musical mandala is that …
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The Application of Mindfulness Based Art Therapy to Reduce Stress for Teachers
… intervention included a mindfulness exercise and mandala making while focusing on a positive experience within the week. Qualitative data was collected from teacher responses to the artwork and artwork was assessed using the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS). Quantitative data was …
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Mandalas and cultural identity: Increasing positive identification with Chamorro native heritage
… of adapting a traditional art directive of mandalas for use with individuals of Chamorro descent to develop positive identification with Chamorro native heritage. Fifty participants participated in the study; the majority were females who resided on the island of Guam; a US territory. Almost …
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The development of satellite derived nitrate and stratification indices for the southern Benguela ecosystem
… to define the ecosystem state through Margalef's Mandala (Margalef, 1978). The approach involved the development of robust algorithms using in situ data collected in the greater St Helena Bay region to estimate the surface NO3 concentrations and the depth of the Iso12 for the southern Benguela, …
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