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September 2, 2017 Oren Ergas
This article's main theme is the conceptualization of a 'body-oriented-pedagogy' that unfolds a possibleaccount of 'how one learns from the body'. Based on B.K.S Iyengar's approach to yoga-posture practice,which is embedded in classical yoga's philosophy of 'mind', a 'body-oriented pedagogy' is depicted as apractice that seeks to incite 'embodied mindfulness'. The pedagogy trains one in turning...
IAFOR Journal of Education September 1, 2017 Somsit Asdornnithee, Proetphan Daensilp
Regarding the research questions of how the contemplative learning process is appropriate for Thai female prison inmates and how it can transform the learners, the objectives of the project were to study the learning process facilitation appropriate for the inner stability development of female prison inmates, and to explicate their inner experiences found during and after the completion of the...
Journal of clinical sport psychology September 2017 Erin G. Mistretta, Carol R Glass, Claire A Spears et al.
Although mindfulness training for athletes is an area of increasing interest, few studies have focused on the qualitative experiences of athletes in such programs. Prior to beginning six sessions of mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE) training, 45 mixed-sport collegiate athletes reported what they hoped and expected to get from the training, and responded afterward to open-ended...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2017 Christina Grof, Stanislav Grof 65 citations
The Concept of Spiritual Emergency T here exists increasing evidence that many individuals experiencing episodes of nonordinary states of consciousness accompanied by various emotional, perceptual, and psychosomatic manifestations are undergoing an evolutionary crisis rather than suffering from a mental disease (Grof, 1985).The recognition of this fact has important practical and theoretical...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2017 Bethe Hagens
Abstract: Interbeing is a foundational teaching of Thiền Sư (Zen master) Thích Nhất Hạnh, beloved Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist who has worked closely with Chân Không, an expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist nun. Together they founded Plum Village retreat center in the Dordogne region of France. This volume of invited essays – taken as a whole – reveals the inspirational power of the...
Frontiers in Psychology September 1, 2017 Antonio Alcaro, Stefano Carta, Jaak Panksepp
Psychologists usually considered the "Self" as an object of experience appearing when the individual perceives its existence within the conscious field. In accordance with such a view, the self-representing capacity of the human mind has been related to corticolimbic learning processes taking place within individual development. On the other hand, Carl Gustav Jung considered the Self as the...
Integral Transpersonal Journal September 1, 2017 Michael Doty
Consciousness and cognition have always been of interest to me and I have spent a large part of my life exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness and their effect on my thought processes. Many concepts in Integral Transpersonal Thinking resonated with my experience with non-ordinary states and it was through this resonance that I was able to make sense of terms that were initially...
JAACAP Connect September 1, 2017 Florence Levy
The advent of sophisticated brain mapping techniques (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], functional MRI [fMRI]) has given rise to the accidental discovery of a “default mode network” (DMN) in the brain, which is activated when individuals at rest are left undisturbed to think to themselves.1 The activity associated with engagement of the DMN has been described as “mind-wandering,” and has...
Topoi September 1, 2017 Xabier E. Barandiaran 126 citations
Abstract The concept of “autonomy”, once at the core of the original enactivist proposal in The Embodied Mind (Varela et al. in The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991), is nowadays ignored or neglected by some of the most prominent contemporary enactivists approaches. Theories of autonomy, however, come to fill a theoretical gap that sensorimotor...
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica September 1, 2017 Jesús Conill 5 citations
The first part of this study stresses the importance of intimacy for human life and defends the biological standpoint against the functionalist computational stance. This is based on the concept of bodily subjectivity in Nietzsche, bodily, emotional and spiritual intimacy in Ortega y Gasset, and bodily and personal intimacy in Zubiri. The second part sets forth a significant selection taken...