Seli, Jonker, Cheyne, Cortes, and Smilek (2015) found that, through retrospective confidence reports, participants can distinguish the validity of their mind wandering reports during a sustained attention ("metronome response") task. In addition, some participants were better able to make this distinction than others. Here, I sought to replicate both the within- and between-subjects' effects of...
Abstract In 1992, a United Nations report had called work stress as ‘The 20th Century Disease’. The ‘always on’ economy of the 21st century has ensured that the prevalence of work-related stress is omnipresent even now like the mobile phones that perpetrate it. As stressors in the environment are continually present, what appears to be an antidote, is to change the response and have a more...
There is a lack of up-to-date data on sleep and dream habits of college students. To fill in this gap, we used an online questionnaire sent to the student mailing lists of two major universities of Lyon (Lyon 1 and Lyon 2) for the recruitment of an functional magnetic resonance imaging study with sleep disorders as exclusion criteria. In the sample (1,137 French college students, 411 males,...
Dennis Hirota is a modern master of Shin Buddhism who for several decades has explicated the role of natural language in fostering Buddhist awakening. At the core of his oeuvre is the claim that Shin Buddhism’s founder, Shinran Shonin (1173-1263), accepted the earlier Mahayana teaching of nondual awareness as a necessary condition for awakening. Shinran’s unique contribution was to insist that...
Embodied, embedded, extended and enactive (4EC) perspectives on cognition have gained epistemic legitimacy during the last 25 years in the international arena. They have encouraged new ways to understand the mind. Mexico has not been an exception; rather, it has the potential to provide a fertile ground for the development of 4EC perspectives, as shown by the variety of contributions in this...
이 글의 목적은 의례를 통한 심성함양의 기제를 설명하는 것이다. 의례는 몸을 중심으로 하여 이루어지는 활동이며, 따라서 심성함양의 매체와 관련지어 생각할 때, 그것은 ‘비언어적 상징’에 속한다. 의례를 통한 심성의 함양은 특히 동양적 전통에서 충분히 강조되어 왔지만, 그 기제가 아직 명확하게 드러나 있지는 않다. 몸을 통한 심성함양의 기제는 지각에 초점을 둘 때 보다 분명하게 드러날 수 있다. 이 글은 지각에 관하여 심도 있는 분석을 해낸 현상학자 메를로-퐁티의 관점을 참고하여 지각은 ‘의식’ 이전에 ‘몸’에 근거한 인식이라는 점을 탐색하였다. 메를로-퐁티의 관점에서 지각은 대상과 주체의 어느 한편을 중심으로 하여 설명될 수 없으며, 지각의 사태는 이미 주체와 대상이 함께 참여하는 사태로 이해될 수...
Some of the approaches to prevent and recover from burnout focus on the individual, and others focus on organizational initiatives. A common recommendation for the individual with burnout is to practice meditation and mindfulness. Mindfulness may be defined as focused awareness without judgment regarding the current instance in time. The practice of mindfulness and the outcome of various...
September 28, 2018Brian M. Galla, Eli Tsukayama, Daeun Park et al.3 citations
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Little is known about the naturalistic development of mindfulness in adolescence, and whether changes in this mental faculty are associated with perceived stress and emotional well-being. The current longitudinal study examined the development of one dimension of mindfulness, nonreactivity to inner experience, in a racially and socioeconomically diverse sample (N = 1,657) during the transition...
Studies in Digital HeritageSeptember 28, 2018Perla Gianni Falvo, Giovanni Valeri Manera, Joel Zoss2 citations
Daniel Goleman, best known for his worldwide bestseller “Emotional Intelligence,” is most recently co-author of “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body.” A meditator since his college days, Goleman has spent two years in India, first as a Harvard Predoctoral Traveling Fellow and then again on a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Goleman’s first book, “The...
RatioSeptember 28, 2018Amber D. Carpenter4 citations
Abstract Buddhist ethics generally favour attention over action, and mental cultivation as the means of ethical transformation. Buddhaghosa’s treatment ofsamādhi– meditation – in thePath of Purification(Visuddhimagga) exemplifies this view that practices of attention are morally transforming. His detailed discussion of which forms of attentional exercises are transformative to whom reveal that...