Abstract This article examines the role of bodily and emotional processes in shaping consciousness and rational thought, drawing on Antonio Damasio’s work and its subsequent developments. Rejecting the traditional mind-body split, it is argued that human rationality is grounded in the biological processes that sustain it, which raises significant limitations for the feasibility of replicating...
Although mindfulness is included in many positive psychology manuals as a “positive” technique, the implications of its use have scarcely been developed and the relationship between mindfulness and human well-being has barely been researched. Analyzing the main strengths of the two fields, the possibilities for their integration and the potential contradictions between their messages is...