Adapting Meditation to Anxiety Traits

ISBN-13: 9783659680274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 112 str.

Cheon Sanghyeon

Opis

Teaching and learning meditation is a dialectical process. The way in which a certain learner characteristic influences instructional outcomes of a meditation program would not be fixed. Individuals anxiety traits are potential obstacles to the meditation learning process as in other learning processes. Thus, in the beginning stage of meditation instruction, certain design aspects need to be considered to properly mitigate such obstacles caused by learners anxiety traits and facilitate their acquiring necessary skills and attitudinal foundations for meditation practice. Adapting Meditation to Anxiety Traits will show how meditation teachers, especially novice meditation instructors, can better help their students to learn meditation considering their learners characteristics of anxiety traits.

O autorze

Rev. Sanghyeon Cheon, Ph.D., is an ordained Won Buddhist minister and an assistant professor at Won Institute of Graduate Studies, Glenside, PA, USA, where he teaches and researches to promote meditation and mindfulness in everyday life for the well-being of contemporaries.