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This book argues for the central role played by absorption in the functioning of the human mind. The importance of absorption makes itself felt in different ways; the two studies combined in this book concentrate on two of them. The first study, 'The Symbolic Mind', argues that, largely as a result of language acquisition, humans have two levels of cognition, which in normal circumstances are simultaneously active. Absorption is a (or the) means to circumvent some, perhaps all, of the associations that characterize one of these two levels of cognition, resulting in what is sometimes referred to as mysitcal experience, but which is not confined to mysticism and plays a role in various "religious" phenomena, and elsewhere. In the second st...
Publisher description: As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, ranging from the seventh century to the present day, and representing the full range of Tantric experience--Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and even Islamic. Each text has been chosen and translated, often for the first time, by an international expert in the field who also provides detailed background material. Students of Asian religions and general reader...
The human voice is one of the principal conveyers of social and affective communication. Yet relatively little is known about the neural circuitry that supports the recognition of different vocally expressed emotions. We conducted an FMRI study to examine the brain responses to vocal expressions of anger and happiness, and to test whether specific brain regions showed preferential engagement in the processing of one emotion over the other. We also tested the extent to which simultaneously presented facial expressions of the same or different emotions would enhance brain responses, and to what degree such responses depend on attention towards the vocal expression. Forty healthy individuals were scanned while listening to vocal expressions...
3 Quick Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Worry, Anxiety and Panic (Submitted, Website)
Whether we admit it or not, we all worry. You might worry about the big things, like relationships, your job or your direction in life. Or it may be small niggly things like your to-do list and stewing over a comment you wish you hadn’t made. Worrying is completely normal but when your worries run away with you, it can stop you from really experiencing and enjoying what’s happening in the moment. When left for too long, it can also spiral into anxiety or even a panic attack.
Evidence and research on mindfulness | Be Mindful (Submitted, Website)
The Oxford Centre for Mindfulness has found that Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) prevents depression in the service users who have experienced recurrent depression. For people who have experienced three or more previous episodes of depression, MBCT reduces the recurrence rate over 12 months by 40–50% compared with usual care. (Crane C et al, “The effects of amount of home meditation practice in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on hazard of relapse to depression in the Staying Well after Depression Trial”, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2014).
Mindfulness and Anxiety: What Research Tells Us | HealthCentral (Submitted, Website)
Mindfulness studies suggest the practice is an effective way to reduce anxiety. But how? Rachel Zohn looks at the research and explains the practice.
Mindfulness Meditation May Help Treat Anxiety Disorders (Submitted, Website)
A new study finds that eight weeks of meditation significantly alters stress hormones and inflammatory markers.
Getting Started with Mindfulness (Submitted, Website)
Want try mindfulness meditation but not sure where to begin? We'll show you how to start, feel better, reduce your stress, and enjoy life a little more.
Mindfulness - Bloomberg (Submitted, Website)
What is mindfulness? - The Patriot on Sunday (Submitted, Website)
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Self-Care is Not Selfish (Submitted, Website)
At one point in my life, I was deep in depression. I felt like there was no way to get out of the dark cave I was in. There was nothing in the world that could bring me happiness, much less joy. I wasn’t taking care of myself emotionally or physically. I was a mess. […]
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for Anxiety Treatment | HealthyPlace (Submitted, Website)
Mindfulness-based stress reduction, or MBSR, for anxiety is much more than just a long, official-sounding, somewhat intimidating name. MBSR is an accessible process that helps people of all ages, beliefs, and backgrounds turn stress and struggles like anxiety into positive change for their lives. Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, MBSR is a program that uses mindfulness to enhance wellbeing. In doing that, MBSR reduces stress and anxiety when they interfere in your life. Whether or not you participate in a formal program, you can use MBSR to rein in your anxiety and stress.
What is Contemplative Education? (Submitted, Website)
CONTEMPLATIVE EDUCATION IS AN EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY THAT INTEGRATES THREE CRITICAL ELEMENTS. Here’s how we practice those elements at Naropa University:Rigorous academics—Challenge yourself with the Naropa curriculum, which blends Eastern wisdom studies and traditional Western scholarship. Classes are small and thrilling. Understand that you will read and write a lot.
Contemplative Practice—Bend your body and your mind through the meditation, yoga, and other mindfulness practices.
Experiential Learning—Apply the wisdom and knowledge you’ve acquired and gain career insight and skills through global volunteerism, internships, and community-based learning.
Meditation in Higher Education: The Question of Change, a Current Problem, and Evidence Toward a Solution (Submitted, Journal Article)
Meditation in Higher Education: The Question of Change, a Current Problem, and Evidence Toward a Solution
Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study | SpringerLink (Submitted, Website)
Toward a Theory of Neuroplasticity - Christopher Ariel Shaw - Google Books (Submitted, Website)
Caring to Unify the Future of Conservation (Submitted, Journal Article)
An ethic of care and caring—such as people manifest for one another, for companion animals and plants, and for favorite places—must be extended to all of nature. Extending the moral scope of care in this way is important because it has the potential to change human behavior on a large scale. The moral and emotional power of care can give new vigor and broaden horizons for conservation. It can foster behaviors and policies to create a thriving, resilient planet for humans and other creatures to inhabit.
THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM (Submitted, Website)
Integral Ecology (Submitted, Book)
Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists,...
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (Submitted, Website)
One of the most significant developments in the field of Mindfulness in recent years has been the development of ‘construct Mindfulness’ as a therapeutic tool and as a scientific technology. Both of these rest upon (and produce) bodies of scientific evidence about the effects and correlates of Mindfulness practice, both in terms of therapy and neurophysiology. In this second module, then, we’re going to explore some of implications and elaborations of these approaches. We’ll see what happens to the idea of Mindfulness when we make it into something that can be measured, and then we’ll investigate some of the most popular (and effective) Mindfulness-based Interventions, such as MBSR and MBCT. In the end, we’ll also ask whether this operationalized approach to Mindfulness actually hides deeper philosophical, religious, and existential questions, to which we’ll turn in the next module.
Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans | Nature (Submitted, Website)
Issues - Stress (Submitted, Website)
We all get stressed sometimes. This is perfectly normal. Problems arise, though, when our stress feels overwhelming or goes on for too long, affecting relationships, work and home life.
Train Your Brain: Mindfulness Meditation for Anxiety, Depression, ADD and PTSD | Daniel Goleman (Submitted, Audiovisual)
By now, everyone knows that mindfulness meditation is good for you—but what's still surprising scientists is just how quickly it works. Ten minutes of meditation won't make you a better mutlitasker—there's no such thing, as psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman explains—but it will make you more adept at switching tasks and returning to a deep level of concentration more quickly after a distraction. Every time you practice meditation, you’re strengthening the neural circuitry for focus and training your brain away from mind-wandering. Beyond the need to concentrate for work, pleasure, or to overcome negative emotion, mindfulness meditation can also help to manage disorders like PTSD, anxiety, and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). This last one particularly has shown incredible results, and Goleman cites one exercise a teacher in a rough neighborhood of New York City practices routinely with their class of seven-year-old kids, over half of which have special needs like ADD and autism. That daily ritual keeps the class environment calm and constructive, and is empowering the children with self-control strategies early on. The scientific research evidence on the benefits of meditation is already compelling, and there are major studies underway, which Goleman expects will reveal many more insights that can be used to instruct creative, educational, and mental health practices.
Archives of Neuroscience | Run Regular, Age Slower, Be Neuroplastic (Submitted, Website)
Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In (Submitted, Website)
Simple wisdom for complex lives. Quotes, tips & stories to help us help ourselves and each other.
The Blissful Mind - Your guide to finding calm in the everyday (Submitted, Website)
The Blissful Mind is your guide to finding calm in the everyday
Mindful Ethics and the Cultivation of Concentration (Submitted, Journal Article)
At the same time that the legal profession is experiencing great upheaval, mindfulness is being embraced as an important vehicle for assisting both the individual and the larger collective in responding to the many challenges posed by a rapidly changing world. A secular practice with roots reaching back thousands of years, mindfulness is commonly regarded as a tool for reducing stress, achieving greater focus and concentration, and working with anxiety, depression, substance abuse, pain, and a host of other physical and emotionalchallenges. Whereas five years ago there was little mention of mindfulness in the law, today it is a widely recognized term. Furthermore, a growing number of law schools are offering mindfulness programs, legal conferences are organizing mindfulness presentations and workshops, and legal organizations are introducing mindfulness to their members.
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Mirror Neurons (Submitted, Website)
(PDF) THE SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE OF EMPATHY (Submitted, Website)
The Trouble With Mirror Neurons - Mindful (Submitted, Website)
Spirituality and Service-Learning: Parallel Frameworks for Understanding Students' Spiritual Development (Submitted, Journal Article)
Through their collective experience working in service learning and civic education, Welch and Koth present a scholarly approach to examining the parallels between spiritual formation and service learning as it relates to college student development.
Metacognition in basic skills instruction | SpringerLink (Submitted, Website)
Implications of cognitive theory for instructional design: Revisited | SpringerLink (Submitted, Website)
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene - A Posthuman Inquiry (Submitted, Book)
This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as mental health. It also deglamourises nature-based psychotherapies, deconstructs therapeutic landscapes and redefines mental health and wellbeing as an ecological process distributed in the environment....
Be. Still. Move: Creative Contemplative Movement (Submitted, Website)
Be. Still. Move: Creative Contemplative Movement employs movement, storytelling, and art to discover students’ embodied knowledge towards developing a connection to personal body/mind insights and the internalization of new knowledge, leading to open awareness and acceptance of academic and educational obstacles.
Ritual and Reflection (Submitted, Website)
A Workplace Table of InspirationA Table of Inspiration is a wonderful addition to life in organizations. The Table of Inspiration creates and develops what might be called a “center of gravity” for your workplace: a place where the community finds its center and communal grounding.
Deep Listening (Submitted, Website)
Deep Listening is a way of hearing in which we are fully present with what is happening in the moment without trying to control it or judge it. We let go of our inner clamoring and our usual assumptions and listen with respect for precisely what is being said.For listening to be effective, we require a contemplative mind: open, fresh, alert, attentive, calm, and receptive. We often do not have a clear concept of listening as an active process; we often see listening as a passive, static activity. In fact, listening and a contemplative mind is open and vibrant yet spacious, and it can be cultivated through instruction and practice.
As a classroom practice, deep listening requires that students witness their thoughts and emotions while maintaining focused attention on what they are hearing. It trains them to pay full attention to the sound of the words, while abandoning such habits as planning their next statement or interrupting the speaker. It is attentive rather than reactive listening. Such listening not only increases retention of material but encourages insight and the making of meaning.
Contemplative Practice Fellowships (Submitted, Website)
About the FellowshipsThis program was sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and made possible by funding from the Fetzer Institute. The fellowships seek to restore and renew the critical contribution that contemplative practices can make to the life of teaching, learning, and scholarship. At the heart of the program is the belief that pedagogical and intellectual benefits can be discovered by bringing contemplative practice into the academy, and that contemplative awareness can help to create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society.
On the Nature and Function of Emotion: A Component Process Approach | Request PDF (Submitted, Website)
Building a Strong Foundation for Cancer Healing (Submitted, Website)
Fighting cancer isn't easy, but giving up isn't an option. Yoga enhances physical and emotional wellness—and brings a peace many patients thought they lost forever.
Toward a Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Illness Anxiety Disorder (Formerly Hypochondriasis) (Submitted, Journal Article)
Lifestyle medicine may be the most effective way of treating illness anxiety disorder (IAD), formerly hypochondriasis. IAD as defined in the DSM-5 can now be diagnosed using positive symptoms, which means it is no longer a diagnosis of exclusion. Tools used in lifestyle medicine including motivational interviewing and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) may be particularly useful in the management of IAD.
Yoga - Canadian Cancer Society (Submitted, Website)
Yoga uses stretching, poses, breathing exercise and meditation. Learn about using yoga as a complementary therapy during your cancer treatment.
Classes, jobs, personal events—there are any number of things that might be weighing on you at any given time. It’s totally normal to feel stressed out, but we encourage students to find healthy ways to alleviate that stress. Many of us find great relief in Mindful Meditation, which you can learn about below.
Mindfulness & Meditation for College Students: Expert Tips & Advice (Submitted, Website)
Mindfulness and meditation can have some big benefits for college students. Find out how they can help you and how to easily add them into your routine.
Mindfulness (Submitted, Website)
This article explains the utility of mindfulness in achieving harmony, health, and happiness.
Going Green (Submitted, Website)
"Going green" means to pursue knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles, which can help protect the environment and sustain its natural resources for current and future generations.Our "Going Green" information guide explores topics such as "green" practices, products, technologies, sustainable alternatives, along with related news and issues.
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Understanding & Practicing Mindful Social Justice (Submitted, Website)
Previously, social justice has been a concerted effort by those who work in the social work industry. We envision a new era of mindful social justice in which the greater community has a stronger understanding and care for the marginalized. We believe there are endless opportunities for connection, cultural integration and making peace within ourselves and our communities through mindfully kind action. This all starts with understanding where the pain comes from and the ways in which we are experimenting with reparative efforts. Fortunately some efforts to help children have passed the experimental stage and have the power to help 100,000s of children live a better life.
A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA (Submitted, Website)
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."
This country isn't just carbon neutral -- it's carbon negative (Submitted, Website)
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country's mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.
How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? (Submitted, Website)
By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on earth. How are we going to provide everybody with basic needs while also avoiding the worst impacts of climate change? In a talk packed with wit and wisdom, science journalist Charles C. Mann breaks down the proposed solutions and finds that the answers fall into two camps -- wizards and prophets -- while offering his own take on the best path to survival.
Mindfulness and Social Justice (Submitted, Website)
This blog has been adapted from Tita’s plenary speech at A Mindful Society 2018 conference.
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