Empirical study on the healing nature of mandalas.

Henderson, Patti; Rosen, David; Mascaro, Nathan

doi:10.1037/1931-3896.1.3.148

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“…Recent studies have discovered that mandala could be a promising tool for non-verbal emotional communication [32,[34][35][36][37]. For patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), therapists can diagnose patients' emotional statuses through the mandalas drawn by them, while these patients are not willing or not able to discuss sensitive information regarding childhood abuse [36].…”

Section: Archetypal Pictures and Soundsmentioning

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Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

Ivonin

Chang

Chen

et al. 2012

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Lifelogging tools aim to precisely capture daily experiences of people from the first-person perspective. Although there have been numerous lifelogging tools developed for users to record the external environment around them, the internal part of experience characterized by emotions seems to be neglected in the lifelogging field. However, the internal experiences of people are important and, therefore, lifelogging tools should be able to capture not only the environmental data, but also emotional experiences, thereby providing a more complete archive of past events. Moreover, there are implicit emotions that cannot be consciously experienced, but still influence human behaviors and memories. It has been proven that conscious emotions can be recognized from physiological signals of the human body. This fact may be used to enhance life-logs with information about unconscious emotions, which otherwise would remain hidden. On the other hand, it is not clear if unconscious emotions can be recognized from physiological signals and differentiated from conscious emotions. Therefore, an experiment was designed to elicit emotions (both conscious and unconscious) with visual and auditory stimuli and to record cardiovascular responses of 34 participants. The experimental results showed that heart rate responses to the presentation of the stimuli are unique for every category of the emotional stimuli and allow differentiation between various emotional experiences of the participants.

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Section: Archetypal Pictures and Soundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

Ivonin

Chang

Chen

et al. 2012

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…In other words, the compositional complexity of the mandala aroused more cognitive interest, but this did not necessarily create more feelings of calm and happiness, which were induced by the flowers. This finding is interesting in light of the common use of manadalas to create calm and positive emotions in therapeutic interventions [38]. From this, then we see that flowers are better at inducing positive emotions.…”

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“…In other words, we see that the shape and size-the visual characteristics of the flower, induces emotional reactions of aesthetic pleasure and calmness. This follows the literature that connects between aesthetic characteristics and induction of emotions [34,38]. However, there is not one specific shape that arouses more pleasure, because the 1 st choice was dispersed.…”

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confidence: 76%

The Meaning of Flowers: A Cultural and Perceptual Exploration of Ornamental Flowers

Huss¹,

Yosef²,

Zaccai³

2017

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Background:Since ancient times people have been attracted by flowers and have invested precious energy to cultivate them even though there is no known reward for this costly behavior-in all cultures. How can this attraction be understood? To what extend is this relationship between people and flowers made up of evolutionary, cognitive, perceptual, emotional or socio-cultural components? Does it shift within different cultures? How can we better understand the attraction of people to flowers on both a cultural and universal level? Many questions in this field remain open. Objective:To understand culturally constructed versus universal-perceptual components of the attraction of people to flowers. To explore how different types of cultivated flowers (with different perceptual elements) are conceptualized within a specific culture. Methods:Using mixed methods, we investigated the comparative preference of 150 participants for four visually different flowers. We explored the reasons for the preferred choice of flower. Based on the above first phase, we investigated participants' perceptions of the concept of a generic 'flower' and compared this to a mandala. Based on this second phase, we moved into cultural, perceptual and psychological theories using a concept-map, to access cultural understandings of specific flowers. Results:All four different flowers were equally chosen as first choice and therefore we introduced the generic or universal concept of 'floweriness' that was characterized by enhancing calmness and happiness.On this level, the concept of the flower ranked higher for inducing happiness as compared to a mandala shape that induced more interest. The other three flowers were ranked and differentiated in terms of the cultural connotations that their different visual components aroused, within the context of Israeli culture. Conclusion:The results illustrate the interactive synergetic interplay between universal perceptual and specific cultural elements in relation to specific flowers. Together with this differentiation, the results also point to a central concept of "floweriness" that transcends the specific cultural connotations of specific flowers.

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“…In a randomized controlled trial, Henderson et al (2007) studied two groups of adults with PTSD symptoms; the experimental group depicted trauma-related feelings and emotions within a circle, and the control group drew assigned daily objects such as a cup. At a 1-month follow-up session, the researchers found that participants in the experimental group experienced greater reduction in PTSD symptoms-but not in depression or anxiety symptoms-than control group participants.…”

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“…Art therapy may assist with integration of sensory memories and declarative memory and has been shown to reduce symptoms of PTSD in a number of populations (Harber, 2011;Henderson, Rosen & Mascaro, 2007;Lyshak-Stelzer, Singer, St. John, & Chemtob, 2007;Pifalo, 2007Pifalo, , 2009Tripp, 2007); however, there are no known randomized controlled trials on the effects of art therapy on combat-related PTSD. In a 2013 Delphi study (Kaiser & Deaver, 2013), a panel of expert art therapy researchers identified randomized controlled trials as the highest priority for the art therapy field, and trauma as the most important psychological construct to address through research.…”

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Art Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy for Combat-Related PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Campbell¹,

Decker²,

Kruk³

et al. 2016

Art Therapy

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This randomized controlled trial was designed to determine if art therapy in conjunction with Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) was more effective for reducing symptoms of combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than CPT alone. Veterans (N = 11) were randomized to receive either individual CPT, or individual CPT in conjunction with individual art therapy. PTSD Checklist-Military Version and Beck Depression Inventory-II scores improved with treatment in both groups with no significant difference in improvement between the experimental and control groups. Art therapy in conjunction with CPT was found to improve trauma processing and veterans considered it to be an important part of their treatment as it provided healthy distancing, enhanced trauma recall, and increased access to emotions.

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Empirical study on the healing nature of mandalas.

Cited by 111 publications

References 28 publications

Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

The Meaning of Flowers: A Cultural and Perceptual Exploration of Ornamental Flowers

Art Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy for Combat-Related PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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