This paper discusses how the discipline of parapsychology should acknowledge and integrate attributes from its shadow in order to grow. More women and feminine scholars should be encouraged into the field, and feminine approaches should be integrated with traditional masculine approaches in a both/and approach which draws from transpersonal psychology. This perspective is informed by the observation that psi phenomena are relational, embodied, meaningful, and participatory and rest on healthy connections that can be nurtured by integrating multiple perspectives, methodologies, and ways of knowing. 

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This review article explores the growing interest in incorporating mindfulness and meditation practices into school settings, examines their potential benefits and effectiveness for students' well-being and academic performance. The article provides an overview of various mindfulness and meditation techniques, their theoretical underpinnings, and psychological mechanisms. With the method of literature review, four phases of designing, conducting, analysing, and structuring as well as writing the outcomes of review were held systematically. The present study found that discussion about the advantages of these practices were visible for students, including improved cognitive functioning, reduced stress and anxiety, enhanced emotional well-being, and better social skills and relationships. The review also addresses the implementation of mindfulness and meditation in schools that focuses on curriculum integration, teacher training, and challenges to implementation. Lastly, it highlights future research directions and recommendations to further understand and optimize these practices for students of different age groups and cultural contexts.

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Transforming education: A review of the benefits of integrating mindfulness and meditation techniques in schools

Despite a wide array of immersive sound technologies available to digital media creators who specialize in making audio-visual content that aims to elicit Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), only a few sound reproduction modalities are widely used: mono/stereo and binaural recording. To date, nearly all research studying ASMR, a bio-sensory phenomenon wherein people feel brain tingles triggered by calming audio-visual cues, has been content to carry out ASMR studies entirely with stereo and binaural sound reproduction methods. Therefore, it stands to reason that more understanding about how diverse immersive sound modalities like wave field synthesis, or three-dimensional spatial audio for virtual reality environments might affect the ASMR experience. Do they enhance ASMR experiences more than binaural, the widely advertized modality for the best ASMR experience? And how do they all, including binaural, compare to non-technologically mediated ASMR experiences? This dissertation sets out to open the dialog surrounding ASMR’s application within the diverse technology space of immersive audio. Through the development and testing of four new immersive sound art works for ASMR, this study evaluates the efficacy of various immersive sound modalities, including binaural audio, VR sound spatialization, distributed networks of smartphone speakers, and non-technologically mediated ASMR performance in eliciting ASMR. Participants testing the new sound art works for ASMR took a survey testing for five-point Likert scale rankings of ASMR-related descriptors in relation to experiencing each new sound art work for the first time. The findings, at the very least, suggest that immersive sound technologies can produce effective ASMR experiences, pointing a light toward a greater variety of immersive sound technologies, and providing viable avenues for ASMRtists to create new and interesting ASMR art works. 

ASMRtistry in Immersive Sound: Investigating the Effectiveness of Immersive Sound Technologies in Eliciting Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a pleasant, tingling sensation on the skin that can be elicited by certain auditory and visual stimuli, with the intertwining of sensory modalities and emotional reactions observable in this phenomenon resembling that of synesthesia. The current study shows that the perception of ASMR-associated tingles can be enhanced by means of a prior mindfulness exercise in which attention is drawn to the body. This finding contributes to a better understanding of the crossmodal mechanisms behind ASMR and emphasizes the role that attentional processes play in its unfolding.

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Body scan meditation enhances the autonomous sensory meridian response to auditory stimuli

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Body scan meditation enhances the autonomous sensory meridian response to auditory stimuli