Meditation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the
mind or induces a
mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit[SUP]
[1][/SUP] or as an end in itself.[SUP]
[2][/SUP]
[SUP]what are you training the mind to do? why is this necessary?[/SUP]
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Skin conductance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/SUP]
Skin conductance, also known as
galvanic skin response (GSR),
electrodermal response (EDR),
psychogalvanic reflex (PGR),
skin conductance response (SCR) or
skin conductance level (SCL), is a method of measuring the
electrical conductance of the
skin, which varies depending on the amount of sweat-induced moisture on the skin. Sweat is controlled by the
sympathetic nervous system,[SUP]
[1][/SUP] so skin conductance is used as an indication of psychological or physiological
arousal. If the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system is highly aroused, then sweat gland activity also increases, which in turn increases skin conductance. In this way, skin conductance can be used as a measure of emotional and sympathetic responses.[SUP]
[2][/SUP] There has been a long history of electrodermal activity research, most of it dealing with spontaneous fluctuations or reactions to stimuli.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
This article is about redneck as a pejorative. For the subculture, see Poor White. For other uses, see Redneck (disambiguation).
The term
Redneck is chiefly used for a poor rural white person of the Southern United States. It can be a derogatory slang term[SUP]
[1][2][/SUP] similar in meaning to
cracker (especially regarding Georgia and Florida),
hillbilly (especially regarding
Appalachia and the
Ozarks),[SUP]
[3][/SUP] and
white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality).[SUP]
[4][5][6][/SUP]
By 1975, say Chapman and Kipfer, the term had expanded in meaning beyond the poor Southerner to refer to "a bigoted and conventional person, a loutish ultra-conservative."[SUP]
[7][/SUP] It is often used to attack white Southern
conservatives. The term is also used broadly to degrade working class and rural whites that are perceived by urban progressives to be insufficiently liberal.[SUP]
[8][/SUP] At the same time, some white Southerners have reclaimed the word, using it with pride and defiance as a self-identifier.[SUP]
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