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Rashmi M. Shetkar ¹, Alex Hankey ²

Affiliations
1 Doctoral Fellow - Neuroscientist at Svyasa University, Bangalore, IN
2 Svyasa University, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

Background: Emotional Intelligence is an important core competency of contemporary management science, enhancing and refining which is much needed in today's competitive corporate environment. Traditional knowledge provides a new perspective on how to achieve this. Here, we present a deeper understanding of conscious experience as a basis for emotional intelligence, derived from Vedic sciences, together with means for its application. Methods: We analyse emotional intelligence by elucidating both eastern and western conceptions of self and their neuroscientific basis, in order to show that traditional methods have a vitally important, scientific role to play in modern management education. Results: the neuroscientific perspective on autobiographical self provides key inputs for understanding individual emotional and cognitive states. Vedanta regards the Self as the ground for all experience and action, while Yoga provides means to free a person from the limitations of the autobiographical self. It provides scientifically validated techniques such as deep relaxation and focussed attention training to refine a manager's emotional intelligence. Discussion&Conclusions: Focused Attention Meditation, and other similar systematic meditation techniques described in Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad-Gita, should now be integrated into management education, thus bringing much needed balance of mind, equanimity and goodwill to create institutional excellence.

Keywords

Business, Emotional Intelligence, Management, Self, Yoga

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Alex Hankey ¹

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1 Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana (SVYASA), Jigani, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

How quantum states merge into classical, as microscopic is expanded to macroscopic, has been the subject of debate over the entire 20^th century. The issue is essential to understanding nanotechnology fully, because small nanoparticles lie on the boundary between ‘quantum’ and ‘classical’ behaviour. This article discusses the said boundary in light of a new scale constructed between the two: the ‘Degree of Manifestation’. The possibility of connecting quantum and classical by such a scale was a much dreamed of, but elusive, possibility, until the proof by D’Espagnat that we do not live in an Objective Reality. The Vedic concepts of Vyakta and Avyakta, manifest and unmanifest, lead to a new approach to interpreting quantum theory in which decoherence, (essentially a process of equilibriation of system and environment), is supplemented by the idea of ‘manifestation due to information production’. Here, lack of thermodynamic equilibrium, inherent in any directed energy exchange between any open system (including quantum systems) and its environment, has to supplement decoherence. This leads to new insights into information generation in nanotech systems on the boundary between quantum and classical physics. It also offers a new point of departure for the quantum theory of observation.

Keywords

Quantum Information, Entropy-Information Principle, Wave Function Collapse, Classical Limit, Manifest Reality.

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Rajashree Ranjita ¹, Soubhagyalaxmi Mohanty ¹, Alex Hankey ¹, H. R. Nagendra ²

Affiliations
1 Division of Yoga and Life Science, SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN
2 SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN

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Ayurvedic texts have described 'Kasa' as an independent Vyadhi and a symptom of various debilitating diseases with its separate types, signs, symptoms, pathogenesis, and treatment. If treatment of Kasa Vyadhi is not done in time it can give rise to critical conditions like Swasa, Shosa, Rajyakshama, Urakshata, Rakttapitta, Granthi, Arbuda of respiratory tract etc. So to avoid the above complications it is essential to prevent and manage Kasa Vyadhi. Kasa is of five types; Vataja, Pittaja, Kaphaja, Kshayaja and Kshataja. Among all, Kaphaja Kasa is prevalent in these days originated due to the exposure to active and passive smoking, air pollution, occupational hazards. Kaphaja Kasa is a disease described in Ayurvedic texts that shows close resemblance with chronic bronchitis on the basis of clinical manifestations. However, according to WHO chronic bronchitis and emphysema are now included within the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a major cause of health care burden worldwide and the only leading cause of death among respiratory diseases that is increasing in prevalence. So in this article, critical analysis was done on the Ayurvedic management of Kaphaja Kasa vis-à-vis chronic bronchitis.

Keywords

Kaphaja Kasa, Chronic Bronchitis, Respiratory Diseases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

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Soubhagyalaxmi Mohanty ¹, Satyaprakash Purohit ², Rima Mayanglanbam ², Rajashree Ranjita ², Balaram Pradhan ², Alex Hankey ²

Affiliations
1 Division of Yoga and Humanities, SVYASA Yoga University, Bangalore, IN
2 Division of Yoga and Humanities, SVYASA Yoga University, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The protective effects of fitness on several health related outcomes have clearly been shown among normal sighted students. However, currently there is a dearth of data pertaining to children with visual impairment regarding their fitness. The purpose of the study was to examine differences in minimum muscular fitness among students with visual impairment and normal vision. Two hundred thirty six students; visually impaired (n=125) and sighted (n =111); of South India matched on age, height, weight, and gender participated in this study. Participants were evaluated for minimum muscular fitness through Kraus-Weber test. Chi - square test was used to calculate the frequency and percentage of failure and success in both the groups. The results demonstrated that sighted students had significantly greater levels of muscle fitness than students with visual impairment. It appears that students with visual impairment are deficient in muscle strength as compared to sighted students. Inclusion of physical activities such as yoga in the regular curriculum of the school is suggested for the improvement of the failures status.

Keywords

Visual Impairment, Minimum Muscles Fitness, Kraus-Weber Test.

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Rajashree Ranjita ¹, Soubhagyalaxmi Mohanty ², Alex Hankey ³, H. R. Nagendra ⁴

Affiliations
1 Division of Yoga and Life Science, SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN
2 Division of Yoga and Humanities, SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN
3 Division of Yoga and Physical Science, SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN
4 SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN

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In Ayurveda, Kasa is explained as an independent Vyadhi and a symptom of various debilitating diseases with its separate types, signs, symptoms, pathogenesis, and treatment. It involves most of the presentations of respiratory tract diseases where aggravated Kapha obstructs the free flow of Prana Vayu in Pranavaha Srotas, Kantha and Uras (Sharma and Dash 4:158).

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