Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
September 1, 2021
Ying Hwa Kee, Chunxiao Li, Chun-Qing Zhang et al.
15 citations
Wu-wei is an important construct but is rarely discussed in the sport psychology literature. The present discussion fills the gap in literature and provides a conceptual overview of the wu-wei alternative. After explaining wu-wei briefly, the current state of mindfulness research is discussed to highlight the lack of research in understanding wu-wei and non-striving in sport psychology. In...
PsyArXiv
August 17, 2021
Giuseppe Pagnoni, Fausto Taiten Guareschi
preprint
The theoretical framework of active inference proposed by Karl Friston is currently one of the more actively developed research areas in neuroscience. According to this theory the brain adapts its synaptic activity and architecture in such a way that it de facto comes to mirror the causal structure of events that the organism both encounters and actively induces in its environment. In this...
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
August 12, 2021
Claire Petitmengin
15 citations
Both Buddhist meditation and micro-phenomenology start from the observation that our experience escapes us, we don’t see it as it is. Both offer devices that allow us to become aware of it. But, surprisingly, the two approaches offer few precise descriptions of the processes which veil experience, and of those which make it possible to dissipate these veils. This article is an attempt to put in...
July 31, 2021
Shelley R. Upton, Tyler L. Renshaw, Amanda Morice
preprint
Mindfulness is a traditional, sacred Buddhist practice that has entered the mainstream of applied psychology and become secularized. This study examined the differential influence of the presentation priming of mindfulness meditation—as either a “sacred Buddhist practice” (sacred condition) or a “scientifically proven tool” (secular condition)—on its therapeutic effectiveness in a general...
Networking knowledge. Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN
July 5, 2021
Lisette E. Torres
In this collage, I reflect on my Radical Dharma community gatherings and examine how they are helping me to (re)imagine community and connection during pandemic times. Using the theoretical frameworks of Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001) and Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit) (Annamma, Connor, & Ferri, 2013), I explore through my artwork the following questions:...
Towards Excellence
June 30, 2021
Kaustubh Kamalesh Bhandarkar, Charusheela Ramesh Birajdar
Controlled mind is like friend, while uncontrolled a worst enemy. Meditation, a practical tool to get enlightenment; gain insight and develop compassion, empathy and perception, wisdom; well-being. The real purpose of meditation is transforming one’s mental and physical health in to more improved and healthy state. It is not to get stuck as thinking continuously, about one object of thought,...
June 10, 2021
Joseph Mishan
After a dream about the end of the world, Sally Gillespie closed her private practice to pursue a PhD in psychological responses to the climate crisis. She had practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for over 20 years. In this way, we are introduced to the transformational potential of the climate crisis, when met with courage and honesty and experienced through the medium of dreams, myth and...
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
May 18, 2021
Johannes Alfons Karl, Finley Ngarangi Johnson, Luisa Bucci et al.
We provide a critical review of mindfulness research, focusing on three core areas and questions. First, a meta-review and bibliometric analysis on mindfulness research trends identified a large number of meta-analyses published in the last 20 years, which tend to show positive effects on average, despite continuing questions on research quality, unclear pathways and uncertainty about the...
Sociology of religion
April 2, 2021
Daniel Winchester, Michal Pagis
While previous work has focused largely on discourse, contemporary sociological research has started to examine how the embodied, sensory dimensions of religious practice matter in the construction of religious experience. This paper contributes to this development by drawing sociological attention to the religious cultivation of a particular class of embodied experiences: somatic inversions....
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching
March 30, 2021
Peter Romaskiewicz
1 citation
The growing interest in meditation and meditation inspired classroom practices has garnered a share of advocates and detractors. The recent critiques in Candy Gunther Brown’s Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools (2019) offer the most trenchant legal and ethical obstacles to implementing a contemplative education in American public schools. I trace the contours of Brown’s legal claims...