Intuitive Intelligence, Self-regulation, and Lifting Consciousness

McCraty, Rollin; Zayas, Maria A.

doi:10.7453/gahmj.2014.013

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“…When these differences are sufficiently prominent, familiarity fades away and that generates the experience of an emotion. When the adjustment mechanism fails, panic, anxiety and depression reactions occur [35]. The significant difference in the present study between groups regarding diabetes’ duration, 5 ± 2.5 years in group 1 versus 7 ± 1.8 years ( p = 0.02), might also have contributed to further explain the increased anxiety and depression scores in T2DM patient with macrovascular complications.…”

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The Importance of DS-14 and HADS Questionnaires in Quantifying Psychological Stress in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

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Background and Objectives: The comorbid association between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and a psychological profile characterized by depression and/or anxiety has been reported to increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD), the most striking macrovascular complication of diabetes. The purpose of the present study was to quantify anxiety, depression and the presence of type D personality, and to correlate the scores obtained with cardiovascular risk factors and disease severity in diabetic patients. Materials and methods: The retrospective study included 169 clinically stable diabetic patients divided into two groups: group 1 without macrovascular complications (n = 107) and group 2 with CAD, stroke and/or peripheral vascular disease (n = 62). A biochemical analysis and an assessment of psychic stress by applying the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)and the Type D scale (DS-14) to determine anxiety, depression and D personality scores were done in all patients. Statistical analysis was made using SPSSv17 and Microsoft Excel, non-parametric Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney tests. Results: Following application of the HAD questionnaire for the entire group (n = 169), anxiety was present in 105 patients (62.2%), and depression in 96 patients (56.8%). Group 2 showed significantly higher anxiety scores compared to group 1 (p = 0.014), while depression scores were not significantly different. Per entire group, analysis of DS-14 scores revealed social inhibition (SI) present in 56 patients (33%) and negative affectivity (NA) in 105 patients (62%). TheDS-14 SI score was significantly higher in group 2 compared to group 1 (p = 0.036). Type D personality, resulting from scores above 10 in both DS-14 parameter categories, was present in 51 patients of the study group (30%). There was a direct and significant correlation (r = 0.133, p = 0.025) between the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety (HAD-A) score and the LDL-c values. Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrated that more than a half of patients with diabetes had anxiety and/or depression and one third had Type D personality, sustaining that monitoring of emotional state and depression should be included in the therapeutic plan of these patients. New treatment strategies are needed to improve the well-being of diabetic patients with psychological comorbidities.

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“…At the same time, she posits the existence of a nonlocal dimension to intuition, the basis of which is not understood, but does not appear to be the same as for holistic or inferential intuition. Nonlocal intuition has been defined as ‘the knowledge or sense of something that cannot be explained by past or forgotten knowledge or environmental signals’ (McCraty & Zayas, , p. 58). While many scholars would endorse the basic notion of nonlocal intuition, there is no consensus on precisely what it is.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While debates continue over the precise nature and causes of nonlocal intuition, increasing empirical evidence suggests that nonlocal intuition is a real and measurable phenomenon (McCraty & Zayas, ). For instance, Bradley () shows empirical evidence that people are able to accurately perceive information from distant or future sources, and McCraty and Childre () found that human brains and hearts receive pre‐stimulus information 4–5 seconds before any known emotional stimulus.…”

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“…Tomasino, ). Moreover, enhancing one's nonlocal intuitive capacities is said to lead to more effective communication, smooth social interactions and positive relations (McCraty & Zayas, ), which are important aspects of teacher pedagogical tact. Intuition, in this sense, is not only instant cognitive information processing based on prior knowledge and experiences, but also—as Anthony (, p. 28) puts it—‘can transcend the confines of the individual mind and the limits of the sensory organs’.…”

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The role of intuition in pedagogical tact: Educator views

Sipman

Thölke

Martens

et al. 2019

British Educational Res J

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Pedagogical tact concerns a teacher's ability to adequately handle complex classroom situations that require immediate action. As such, pedagogical tact can be viewed as an enactment of teachers’ intuition. While most teachers, teacher educators, educational leaders and scholars readily recognise the importance of pedagogical tact (and by extension, intuition), few pre‐service or in‐service programmes devote explicit attention to developing this important teacher quality. This study set out to understand why. Specifically, data were collected to investigate how educators perceive intuition, and its role in teacher pedagogical tact. Ten focus group discussions were held with school board members, teacher educators, school principals, in‐service teachers and pre‐service teachers. Participants recognised two types of intuition commonly described in the literature (local and nonlocal), and affirmed the importance of intuition for teacher pedagogical tact. These educators also noted that teachers are rarely if ever encouraged to make conscious use of their intuition, let alone develop it. There was consensus that teachers differ in how well they are able to tune into their intuition. Though the scale of the study is small, the findings suggest that more attention should be given to developing teacher intuition and pedagogical tact than is currently the case.

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“…Some research posits the possibility that visual and cardiac signal synchronization may "modulate bodily self-consciousness and tactile perception", suggesting that the foundation of selfconsciousness is integration of both interoceptive and exteroceptive signals [45]. Bodily rhythms are generated by the heart, and compared to the other organs within the body, more neural signals travel from the heart to the brain (than vice versa) due to an increased number of afferent network connections between the cardiovascular system and the brain [46].…”

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Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Out-of-Body Experiences: Importance of Retinogeniculo-Cortical Oscillations

Jerath¹,

Cearley²,

Barnes³

et al. 2016

WJNS

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Current research on the various forms of autoscopic phenomena addresses the clinical and neurological correlates of out-of-body experiences, autoscopic hallucinations, and heautoscopy. Yet most of this research is based on functional magnetic resonance imaging results and focuses predominantly on abnormal cortical activity. Previously we proposed that visual consciousness resulted from the dynamic retinogeniculo-cortical oscillations, such that the photoreceptors dynamically integrated with visual and other vision-associated cortices, and was theorized to be mapped out by photoreceptor discs and rich retinal networks which synchronized with the retinotopic mapping and the associated cortex. The feedback from neural input that is received from the thalamus and cortex via retinogeniculo-cortical oscillations and sent to the retina is multifold higher than feed-forward input to the cortex. This can effectively translate into out-of-body experiences projected onto the screen formed by the retina as it is perceived via feedback and feed-forward oscillations from the reticular thalamic nucleus, or "internal searchlight". This article explores the role of the reticular thalamic nucleus and the retinogeniculo-cortical oscillations as pivotal internal components in vision and various autoscopic phenomena.

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Intuitive Intelligence, Self-regulation, and Lifting Consciousness

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

The Importance of DS-14 and HADS Questionnaires in Quantifying Psychological Stress in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

The Importance of DS-14 and HADS Questionnaires in Quantifying Psychological Stress in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

The role of intuition in pedagogical tact: Educator views

Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Out-of-Body Experiences: Importance of Retinogeniculo-Cortical Oscillations

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