Addressing the escalating environmental crisis requires not only technological and economic solutions but also a transformation in human behavior and organizational practices. This paper examines the potential of mindfulness to foster pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) by enhancing psychological traits, such as ecological awareness and emotional regulation, that support sustainable actions. It...
This chapter introduces mindfulness practice and attends to the resistance and anxiety people sometimes face as novice practitioners by normalizing it and by sharing stories from the journals of people who have trained with the author. The chapter concludes with a brief breath meditation practice script.
This chapter addresses the physicality, the embodied nature of our identity, and our social and other forms of embeddedness that shape our identities. Our sex, body type, relationship with our bodies, body image, race, sexual orientation, gender identification, all of them influence our relationship with our bodies and part of our identity is inextricably tied to our bodies. We call it the...
The benefits of loving kindness meditation on generative positive emotions, cultivating connection, and love towards others and oneself is well-documented in literature. Through intentional practices such as mindfulness meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy, people can change how we engage with the world. Cognitive training can even reverse brain aging. Exercise and physical activity can...