The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. And the brain-as-computer concept precludes even the remotest possibility of spirituality. As described throughout the history of humankind, seemingly spiritual mental phenomena including...
The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a criti...
The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. And the brain-as-computer concept precludes even the remotest possibility of spirituality. As described throughout the history of humankind, seemingly spiritual mental phenomena including...
The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a criti...
This book explores a wide range of mindfulness and meditative practices and traditions across Buddhism. It deepens contemporary understanding of mindfulness by examining its relationship with key Buddhist teachings, such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eight-Fold Path. In addition, the volume explores how traditional mindfulness can be more meaningfully incorporated into current psychological research and clinical practice with individuals and groups (e.g., through the Buddhist Psychological Model).
Key topics featured in this volume include:
Ethics and...
This book explores a wide range of mindfulness and meditative practices and traditions across Buddhism. It deepens contemporary understanding o...
This book examines the earliest strata of Buddhist texts, the Pali Nikayas, to construct a theoretical and operational understanding of mindfulness that is both true to its origins and applicable to contemporary conditions. On the basis of this foundation, the book explores how mindfulness practice can be adapted for people with developmental disabilities, with a focus on autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The resultant approach to mindfulness training is called inclusive Mindfulness-Based Attention Training (iMBAT). A small-scale longitudinal study, in which mindfulness is taught to six...
This book examines the earliest strata of Buddhist texts, the Pali Nikayas, to construct a theoretical and operational understanding of mindfulness th...
Recently, there has been widespread emerging interest in the use of contemplative practices aimed at cultivating mindful awareness and compassion in teachers and students across a broad variety of disciplines (e.g., Roeser & Peck, 2009, Schonert-Reichl et al., in press; Thurman, 2006). But what is mindfulness and how can it be cultivated in secular educational settings in ways that support and extend other core aims of education associated with the "three Rs"?
Both clinical psychology and neuroscience research have revealed important beneficial outcomes of the practice of...
Recently, there has been widespread emerging interest in the use of contemplative practices aimed at cultivating mindful awareness and compassion i...
Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply--and the quality of parenting suffers--when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents' inner resources, often undoing the best intentions and parenting courses.
Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners offers an evidence-based, eight week structured mindfulness training program for parents with lasting benefits for parents and...
Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply--and the quality of parenting suffer...
This handbook explores mindfulness philosophy and practice as it functions in today s socioeconomic, cultural, and political landscape. Chapters discuss the many ways in which classic concepts and practices of mindfulness clash, converge, and influence modern theories and methods, and vice versa. Experts across many disciplines address the secularization and commercialization of Buddhist concepts, the medicalizing of mindfulness in therapies, and progressive uses of mindfulness in education. The book addresses the rise of the, mindfulness movement, and the core concerns behind the critiques...
This handbook explores mindfulness philosophy and practice as it functions in today s socioeconomic, cultural, and political landscape. Chapters discu...
This book explores a wide range of mindfulness and meditative practices and traditions across Buddhism. It deepens contemporary understanding of mindfulness by examining its relationship with key Buddhist teachings, such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eight-Fold Path. In addition, the volume explores how traditional mindfulness can be more meaningfully incorporated into current psychological research and clinical practice with individuals and groups (e.g., through the Buddhist Psychological Model).
Key topics featured in this volume include:
Ethics and...
This book explores a wide range of mindfulness and meditative practices and traditions across Buddhism. It deepens contemporary understanding o...
This comprehensive handbook presents a Zen account of fundamental and important dimensions of daily living. It explores how Zen teachings inform a range of key topics across the field of behavioral health and discuss the many uses of meditation and mindfulness practice in therapeutic contexts, especially within cognitive-behavioral therapies. Chapters outline key Zen constructs of self and body, desire, and acceptance, and apply these constructs to Western frameworks of health, pathology, meaning-making, and healing. An interdisciplinary panel of experts, including a number of Zen masters who...
This comprehensive handbook presents a Zen account of fundamental and important dimensions of daily living. It explores how Zen teachings inform a ran...
