Research published in Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies

Developing a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Entrepreneurial Stress Reduction

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies July 26, 2024 Aayushi Pandey, Shashank Mittal, Xuan-Hoa Nghiem

This chapter explores developing and implementing mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) tailored for entrepreneurs to reduce stress and enhance well-being. Recognizing the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurs, the chapter examines the theoretical foundations of mindfulness and its relevance to entrepreneurship. It outlines practical strategies for creating effective MBIs, including...

DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3673-1.ch007

Mindfulness-Based Therapy in the Management of Tinnitus

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2022 Prashanth Prabhu P.

Mindfulness-based interventions are one of the recent techniques that have proven to be very useful in tinnitus management. Mindfulness therapy refers to experiencing the present, which helps control the attention system, which significantly contributes to getting relief from the adverse reactions due to tinnitus. Several systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials report relief from...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8682-2.ch011

Meditation, Mindfulness, and Mental Health

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2022 Sanjeev Kumar Gupta

In the last six decades, the concept of mindfulness has been widely studied, researched, and practiced in mainstream psychology, mental health, and health disciplines. Over a period of time, clinical practitioners have integrated meditation and mindfulness practices or techniques in the mainstream psychological interventions for emotional and behavioral disorders such as anxiety, depression,...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8682-2.ch001

Mindfulness-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2022 Sindhu B. S.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the latest mindfulness-based behavior therapies shown to have compelling evidence and efficacy with a wide range of clinical conditions. ACT is so hard to categorize that it is often described as an amalgamation of existential, humanistic, cognitive-behavioural therapy. ACT is often referred as process-based CBT and is one of the ‘third-wave' of...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8682-2.ch005

The No-Self of Zen/Gen

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2022 Aya Kamperis

The Buddhist practice of mindfulness has enjoyed a tremendous surge in popularity in the last few decades, both in the popular press and in the psychotherapy literature. However, the philosophy and practice of mindfulness has often been erroneously equated with quietism or a withdrawal from the world of action, misconceived as a practice of sterile, self-absorbed contemplation. On the contrary,...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8682-2.ch016

Mindfulness Through Mantram and Inspired Passage Meditation

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2022 Doug Oman, Jill E Bormann

Mindfulness is sometimes misunderstood as solely a Buddhist or secular practice. This chapter offers a toolkit for enhanced sensitivity and flexibility toward patients and populations of diverse spiritual and religious orientations and backgrounds. It explains a set of eight interrelated practices known as Passage Meditation (PM), and a subset known as the Mantram Repetition Program (MRP), both...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8682-2.ch014

Intuit What You Need

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2021 Derek Galanto

One research question guided the autoethnographic inquiry: “What is the experience of intuition and immersion in the Holotropic Breathwork community?” The experience of intuition and Holotropic Breathwork are subjective. An autoethnography is proposed to allow focus on personal and evocative narratives of the author. Specifically, Jones, Adams, and Ellis method for autoethnographic data...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3665-0.ch009

Archetypes of Corporativity and Hierarchy in the Internet

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2019 Denis V. Lvov

C.G. Jung defined the concept of a collective unconsciousness (CU). Fundamentally, Jungian archetypes of the unconscious may be understood as quantum electrodynamic (QED) patterns that exist at deep levels of human individual and collective psyche. Unlike the concepts of Sigmund Freud, comparative research demonstrates that Jungian dream therapy—which is based on archetypal dynamics—accords...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9065-1.ch004 Psyche Unconscious mind Archetype Synchronicity +10

The Media-Dream Model

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2019 S. Schafer

We live in a world not of science but of science fiction. Like pixel patterns from unconscious software is projected onto a monitor, unconscious archetypal quantum patterns are projected as what Carl Jung called archetypal representation (AR). Projected images are then subject to the vagaries of personal perception, so it may be stipulated that no absolute reality exists for humans. Rather,...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9065-1.ch009

A Mathematico-Physical Understanding of the Not-Being Potential and Creation of Parallel Universes by the Energy of Consciousness in Life Forms

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2019 C. Shin, Nam-In Lee

This chapter approaches the subject of the not-being potential that created the universe from a mathematical and physical point of view. It postulates that the not-being potential existed prior to the Big Bang, the energy that was produced from the not-being potential to the being became a highly dense cosmic egg. This cosmic egg of infinite temperature exploded to create the current universe....

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9065-1.ch008

Hinduism and Counseling

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies September 12, 2018 Devi Venashinee Muruges 1 citation

Indian psychology lays enormous importance on the research of religious experiences and the expansion of approaches by which to accomplish them. In addition to that, it also provides understanding of the different states of consciousness. Hence, it is undeniable that Indian psychology will be able to make a definite therapeutic contribution to many psychological problems. For mental health...

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6073-9.ch013

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