Digital Archive @ GSU
April 14, 2022
Cheryl L. Garn
Mindfulness, a set of techniques for engaging with stimuli in the present-moment environment, has recently received considerable attention in the literature. Mindfulness is drawn from Eastern, Buddhist traditions and has been integrated into contemporary psychology, in part, as a technique for improving the ability to respond skillfully to emotionally distressing stimuli and processes (Bishop,...
Terapia psicológica
April 1, 2022
Ana María Ruiz-Ruano-García, Matilde Sáez-García, Francisco José Moya‐Faz et al.
2 citations
Background: Mindfulness is getting more and more attention from psychological intervention contexts, but also from educational and organizational settings.As a consequence, there also is a growing need for tools to measure mindfulness.Objective: The aim of this work is to present the Spanish adaptation psychometric properties of the short version Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI), a test...
Psychological Research
April 1, 2022
Larissa Lusnig, Ralph Radach, Markus J. Hofmann
AbstractThis work represents one of the first attempts to examine the effects of meditation on the processing of written single words. In the present longitudinal study, participants conducted a lexical decision task and rated the affective valence of nouns before and after a 7-week class in mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, or a control intervention. Both meditation groups...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
March 21, 2022
Dr. Kalo Sona Roy
In India the philosophers, except the Madhyamika Buddhists and Jayarasi Bhatta, maintain that determination of an object depends on a pramana, a source of cognition. Similarly, pramana depends on prameya padhartha. In the present paper I will deal with the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics from the Advaita point of view. According to Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is the only highest...
Routledge eBooks
March 18, 2022
Darin Pradittatsanee
1 citation
This chapter presents contemplative pedagogies developed in a course on “Environmental Literature” for Thai undergraduates. With course objectives aimed at introducing ecocriticism and fostering ecological conscience, this course interweaves contemplative practices with discussion of literary texts. Informed by the Buddhist notions of dependent origination (paticcasamppāda), which Thich Nhat...
March 14, 2022
Christopher W. Gowans
2 citations
This chapter calls into question a common view about the purpose of Buddhist meditation and offers an alternative interpretation. It is often supposed that a primary purpose of Buddhist meditation is to provide experiential knowledge that there is no self. This is typically taken to mean that some form of insight meditation (vipassanā), such as mindfulness, is a source of knowledge of the...
March 14, 2022
Charu Thapliyal
In this chapter, two distinct Indian philosophical traditions are compared – one Hindu, the other Buddhist – to support the conclusion that meditation is essential to both philosophies, as two separate but similar traditions that evidence the overall premise of this Handbook – that meditation is a valid element of philosophy. The chapter begins with a discussion of the four stages of...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
March 11, 2022
Heather Mary Kempton
2 citations
Mindfulness practices have exploded in popularity in public awareness and in therapeutic applications. While mindfulness in a therapeutic context is presented as a secular practice, its primarily Buddhist heritage may make some Christian clients wary of engaging. Research indicates that both reflection (co-creation) on poetry and creation of poetry can be therapeutic, and that both Buddhist and...
Current Psychology
February 12, 2022
Sylvia Sensiper
There is a growing interest in contemplative practices in higher education. Researchers have explored the use of meditation to address the increasing requests for counseling and as a resource for improving student mental health. Contemplative practices have also been incorporated into the fundamental learning objectives in some US universities. This study of teaching methods uses first-person...
PsyArXiv
January 31, 2022
Daniel R. Berry, Katie Rodriguez, Virginia Tasulis et al.
preprint
Objectives: Mindful attention deployment has been found to have practical benefits for a range of interpersonal outcomes including prosocial action and emotion. Recently, theory has posited that contemplative training that incorporates mindful attention may enhance intergroup compassion. Method: Here, we conduct a selective narrative review, drawing on the Buddhist concept skillful means to ask...