Cultivating Slowness as Contemplative Practice
Philosophy and Education 2024 Alison M. Brady
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HEURISTIC INQUIRY AS CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE
Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies 2024
This chapter describes potential application of heuristic research methods, especially the use of the processes and phases of heuristic inquiry, within contemplative practices. Exploratory exercises designed to facilitate contemplative experiences are discussed, along with opportunities to support illumination and transformation. Finally, an overview of the author&s;s journey using a yoga pose...
Contemplative Emergence: How My Contemplative Practices Have Supported Transformative Change in a Higher Education Space
Contemplative Practices and Acts of Resistance in Higher Education Narratives Toward Wholeness 2024
Contemplative emergence is an integrated, embodied, and transformative change process cultivated over time from a deep reflection of lived experiences supported by a series of daily contemplative practices to build self-awareness, accountability, and capacity to steward justice. It includes the wisdom that comes from the integration of these experiences, along with gratitude and resilience....
Contemplative Practices for Connecting to Animals (and Ourselves)
Animals and Religion 2024
In this chapter, I will offer a series of contemplative practices that I use myself and teach in my classes to help students utilize mindfulness of animals as a tool to deepen their understandings of themselves, of animals as fellow living beings in the world (both as species and as individuals), and of the relationships between humans and other animals. After defining some key terms, I will...
Resilience and Resistance through Contemplative Practice
2024 Nicole Bauer
Burnout, imposter syndrome, changes in higher education, issues of free speech, structural inequality—the challenges facing academics today are daunting and overwhelming. How do we balance all of our responsibilities and goals without becoming exhausted? How do scholars decide if activism is right for them, and if so, what form should it take? There is, fortunately, great wisdom, solace, and...
Observing the World without You: Automatic Walking and Death Meditation
Acta Ludologica 2024 Aaron Oldenburg
This article discusses walking simulators and self-playing games in the context of the spiritual practice of death meditations. It explores states of mind that walking simulators may have the ability to provoke and how these can be furthered through automation. Although the focus is on potential benefits of a niche approach to game design, the article also discusses ways that this form of...
Meditation in today's modern life
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation 2024 Pham Thi Ut Nhut
Meditation is a practice method originating from Buddhism, a method of focusing the mind and creating patience and stillness to explore and better understand yourself and the world around you. With the challenges of modern life, Meditation will bring great value, regaining balance and relaxation. In this article, the author focuses on clarifying the general understanding of Zen, the values that...
Ultra-Brief Breath Counting (Mindfulness) Training Abolishes Negative Affect-Induced Alcohol Motivation in Hazardous Community Drinkers.
Mindfulness 2024 Alexandra Elissavet Bakou, Lorna Hardy, Ruichong Shuai et al.
Mindfulness therapy improves drinking outcomes arguably by attenuating negative mood-induced drinking, but this mechanism has not been demonstrated in hazardous community drinkers. To address this, three studies tested whether a key ingredient of mindfulness, breath counting, would attenuate the increase in motivation for alcohol produced by experimentally induced negative mood, in hazardous...
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Alcohol craving
Breath counting
Mood induction
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in patients with anxiety disorders in secondary mental health care settings alongside a randomized controlled trial.
Frontiers in Psychiatry 2024 Mitsuhiro Sado, Akihiro Koreki, Akira Ninomiya et al.
Anxiety disorder is one of the most prevalent mental disorders. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is effective for treating anxiety disorders. However, no studies have investigated the cost-effectiveness of MBCT for anxiety disorders. We aimed to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to clarify the cost-effectiveness of MBCT for anxiety...
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1391786 (opens in new tab)
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Anxiety disorders
Cost-effectiveness
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Randomized controlled trial
Examining efficacy and potential mechanisms of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for anxiety and stress reduction among college students in a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP 2024 Oksana K Ellison, Lauren E Bullard, Gloria K Lee et al.
The pervasiveness of anxiety and stress among college students necessitates the investigation of potential alternative and accessible interventions which can be implemented into existing curricular and student-support programming to improve students' mental health. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) smartphone applications have shown promising outcomes in alleviating anxiety and stress....
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100514 (opens in new tab)
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Cognitive restructuring
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Negative automatic thoughts