An ever-growing number of studies provide evidence for the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions within a variety of clinical and nonclinical contexts. For the field to develop and solidify, it will be essential to go beyond demonstrating clinical effectiveness and to develop an evidence-based understanding of the psychological, physiological, and neural processes that underpin the reported …
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Concurrent Session 4 – Remembering What We Need to Remember: Extending the Psychotherapeutic Application of Mindfulness
Mindfulness within Tibetan Buddhism is equated with the notion of “remembrance,” and distraction as its opposite is equated with “forgetfulness.” Psychologically, it can be said that suffering arises because the tendency to “remember the things we should forget and forget the things we should remember” has become habituated. Within psychotherapy, mindfulness can be utilized from …
Concurrent Session 4 – The Growing Art and Science of Contemplative Management
Mindfulness practices have become mainstream in many leading organizations, such as Google, Aetna, and the U.S. military. In stark contrast with the substantial knowledge guiding mindfulness practices in contemplative and clinical contexts, very little is known about mindfulness’s workplace integration and impacts. To catalyze similarly rigorous scholarship and standardized practices, this discussion will consider why …
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Concurrent Session 4 – Yoga and Mindfulness: Engaging the Undergraduate Learner
Without meaning or purpose, students view higher education and the working world beyond as irrelevant and as overwhelming stressors. Our institutions address academic malaise by creating environments in which engagement can occur. This experiential paper proposes that beyond fostering stimulating environments, educators must teach students how to engage. Through tapping into neuroplasticity, mindfulness, and yoga, …
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Concurrent Session 4 – Towards an Applied Multiple Consciousness Theory of Mindfulness: With Special Reference to the WonBuddhist Method
This paper explores the Won-Buddhist approach to mindfulness that encompasses several layers of consciousness: the subconscious, the mind, and six sense faculties (preconsciousness). These layers function simultaneously but play distinctive roles depending on the external environment. The proper function of the six sense faculties leads to the weakening of negativity stored in the subconsciousness. This …
Concurrent Session 4 – Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB): Training, Research, and Future
This panel presentation will bring the audience up to date on Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB), a secular emotion regulation and meditation training designed by Drs. Paul Ekman and Alan Wallace at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama following the 2000 Mind and Life meeting on destructive emotions. CEB is a 42-hour training in …
Concurrent Session 4 – Merleau-Ponty Reads Francisco Varela
Francisco Varela and his colleagues proffer a provoking conclusion in theirgroundbreaking The Embodied Mind. By relying almost exclusively on introspection, Western philosophy from Plato to Merleau-Ponty is at best proto-cognitive scientific. Oddly enough, the movement out of philosophy and into neuroscience is carried out by mindfulness and meditation. Oddly because forms of discursive rational introspection …
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Concurrent Session 4 – Contemplative Technologies and Liberal Arts and Sciences
What legitimizes contemplative inquiry in the liberal arts and sciences? Is propagation by technological means at odds with the humanizing purposes of close-knit teaching and learning communities? Do the peculiar benefits cultivated by contemplative communities in the liberal arts and sciences continue to serve alumni in their respective professions and leisure? A panel composed of …
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Concurrent Session 4 – Exploring the Intersection of Contemplative Practices and Computer Technologies
This presentation overviews a number of projects that are part of a larger research agenda focusing on the intersection of contemplative practices and technology use. Our overarching research goal is to understand how technology is currently being used by contemplative individuals and communities, which, we believe, is a step toward exploring a more balanced, middle-way …
Concurrent Session 3 – Integration and Engagement: Personal and Professional Practice in the Lab, the Clinic, and Education
In some visions for contemplative studies, considerable importance is given to the integration of personal and professional practice. How might this work in practice, and what challenges and potentials does this entail in the laboratory, the clinic, and other contexts of research and application? Drawing on examples from our research projects and interventions, we offer …
