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Psychology of Mindfulness (Paperback)
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Psychology of Mindfulness (Paperback)
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In our daily attempt to make sense of life and the world, we come
to realise that appropriation of life hinges upon our mindfulness.
Being alert to how we dwell in the interior and exterior landscapes
of our existence may yet turn around the present modes of living
into a salutary condition and/or a better direction. And yet, in
what sense(s) does "mindfulness" matter to us for genuinely
experiencing our mortal time and for (re-)creation of the world?
How successfully does "mindfulness" intervene the psycho-somatic
experience of predicaments and enable us to better cope with times
of distress and suffering? This book is an interdisciplinary
collection of studies on mindfulness explored and discussed by the
authors from different walks of life, disciplines and interests. It
offers a rich set of interventions related to the practice of
mindfulness meditations which effectively reduces human
predicaments of menstrual-stress, neurosis, loneliness, anxiety,
trauma, forgetfulness, and distress over cancer, fear of dying
alone, mourning, etc., gathered by the authors through their
research, teaching, and practice from the fields of philosophy,
psychology, medicine, therapy, social work, education and fine
arts. The authors in this volume are thus attuned to the menace of
recognisable objectivism and objectification of intrinsically
interconnected lives of things, and are seeking, through their
studies, ways of overcoming a tyranny of the "I" under a zenith of
its objectivism in our cultural climate. Accordingly, this volume
includes also three informative essays on the Mahayana Buddhist
traditions in India and China, Japanese Soto Zen practice of Dogen,
and a comparative study of meditation between the Western and the
Eastern traditions of spirituality, so as to shed light on the
historical and philosophical backgrounds of mindfulness meditation
of the far East. This collection of essays closes with mindfulness
as an issue of "interspecies, human-animal relations". In order to
find a step beyond the epoch of anthropocentrism, this book will
extend our alertness to non-human animals wherein the essential
traits of mankind have been repeatedly drawn and appropriated in
the history of man. In conclusion, the book will examine new
possibilities in the mind of the reader for seeking a way of
authentic co-belonging with other species and of building a new
ethos beyond the age of objectivism and anthropocentrism.
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