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11	Strävan efter den medvetna närvaron : En kvalitativ studie kring bruket av buddhistisk insiktsmeditation i ett sekulariserat samhälle / The quest for the mindful presence : A qualitative study on the practice of Buddhist insight meditation in a secular society Hansson, Johanna January 2016 (has links) In this bachelor’s thesis I have focused on the question why people who live in secular societies use insight or vipassana meditation. The study is based on the rational choice theory developed by Rodney Stark. I have used an inductive qualitative method including e-mail interviews with practitioners of vipassana meditation. The study has shown why some people start the practice and how people’s expectations of vipassana meditation can differ in what they wanted from their practice. The study showed that practitioners and the society that surrounds them influenced each other. The study highlighted the way vipassana meditation was practiced on a secular basis. meditation religion secular society rational choice Buddhism insight meditation vipassana meditation religion sekulärt samhälle rationellt val buddhism insiktsmeditation vipassana
12	Meditação Mindfulness para Promoção de Coping e Saúde Mental: Aplicação clínica e em presídio. Freitas, Tereza Cláudia Camapum Carvalho de 23 September 2011 (has links) Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2018-01-17T11:11:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tereza Claudia Camapum Carvalho de Freitas.pdf: 38892234 bytes, checksum: 763a5abcece8fff3b979ddcbbdf8eb24 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-17T11:11:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tereza Claudia Camapum Carvalho de Freitas.pdf: 38892234 bytes, checksum: 763a5abcece8fff3b979ddcbbdf8eb24 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-23 / Oriental philosophy and psychology have influenced the practices and research in positive and clinical psychology. Mindfulness was found to reduce stress and chronic pain (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - MBSR); reduce panic and anxiety (MBSR and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – ACT), help in the treatment of borderline patients (Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT) and in the prevention of depressive relapse (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy - MBCT) amongst other clinical applications. In positive psychology, studies were done on the hypothesis that promotion of positive emotions as love, contentment and compassion using Loving-Kindness-Meditation (LKM) during various months. LKM was found to promote positive emotions that help broaden coping and build resilience in participants. Both mindfulness and LKM involve full attention to the present moment without judging. The intention of this literature research was to construct a theoretical study on: 1 The concept of mindfulness meditation, emphasizing its beneficial effects on meditators; 2 Clinical interventions based on the concept of mindfulness; 3 The concept of LKM and how it can evoke and reinforce positive emotions as an instrument in positive psychology; 4 Clarify how mindfulness and meditation can promote coping and mental health. Finally, based on the analysis of the existing literature, the present study suggests that a broad range of processes is involved in the benefits of meditiation, including increased self conscience; acceptance of experiences, increased positive emotions and the broadening of psychological resources. / A filosofia e psicologia orientais têm influenciado as práticas e os estudos no ocidente nas áreas da psicologia clínica e psicologia positiva. Várias pesquisas demonstram resultados positivos na clínica em relação à redução do estresse e dores crônicas (Mindfulness Based Stress Redution - MBSR); na redução da ansiedade e pânico (Mindfulness Based Stress Redution - MBSR e Acceptance e Commetimet Therapy - ACT). No tratamento de pacientes borderlines (Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT) e na prevenção de recaídas na depressão (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy - MBCT) entre outros. Na psicologia positiva, pesquisas foram realizadas com a hipótese de que seria possível promover emoções positivas seletivas como amor, contentamento e compaixão ao longo de meses utilizando-se Loving- Kindness Meditation (LKM). Esta técnica de meditação demonstrou ser capaz de evocar e incrementar emoções positivas que ajudam a ampliar estratégias de coping. Todavia, Loving- Kindness Meditation se aproxima do conceito de mindfulness quando é considerada uma técnica de atenção plena no momento presente, sem julgamento, mesmo que exista a intencionalidade de evocar pensamentos e emoções pré-determinadas. Com esta pesquisa bibliográfica buscou-se realizar um estudo teórico sobre : 1. O conceito da meditação mindfulness ressaltando os seus efeitos benéficos nos meditantes; 2. Intervenções clínicas baseadas no conceito de mindfulness; 3. O conceito da meditação Loving-Kindness Meditation e como esta é capaz de evocar e reforçar emoções positivas e por isso ser utilizada como ferramenta na psicologia positiva; 4. Elucidar como pode ampliar o coping e promover saúde mental. Em conclusão, a partir da análise da literatura existente, este estudo teórico sugere que um leque de processos está envolvido nos benefícios da meditação, incluindo maior consciência de si, aceitação das experiências, geração de emoções positivas e ampliação de recursos psicológicos. CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
13	Meditação Mindfulness para Promoção de Coping e Saúde Mental: Aplicação clínica e em presídio Freitas, Tereza Cláudia Camapum Carvalho de 23 September 2011 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:22:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tereza Claudia Camapum Carvalho de Freitas.pdf: 38892234 bytes, checksum: 763a5abcece8fff3b979ddcbbdf8eb24 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-23 / Oriental philosophy and psychology have influenced the practices and research in positive and clinical psychology. Mindfulness was found to reduce stress and chronic pain (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - MBSR); reduce panic and anxiety (MBSR and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ACT), help in the treatment of borderline patients (Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT) and in the prevention of depressive relapse (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy - MBCT) amongst other clinical applications. In positive psychology, studies were done on the hypothesis that promotion of positive emotions as love, contentment and compassion using Loving-Kindness-Meditation (LKM) during various months. LKM was found to promote positive emotions that help broaden coping and build resilience in participants. Both mindfulness and LKM involve full attention to the present moment without judging. The intention of this literature research was to construct a theoretical study on: 1 The concept of mindfulness meditation, emphasizing its beneficial effects on meditators; 2 Clinical interventions based on the concept of mindfulness; 3 The concept of LKM and how it can evoke and reinforce positive emotions as an instrument in positive psychology; 4 Clarify how mindfulness and meditation can promote coping and mental health. Finally, based on the analysis of the existing literature, the present study suggests that a broad range of processes is involved in the benefits of meditiation, including increased self conscience; acceptance of experiences, increased positive emotions and the broadening of psychological resources. / A filosofia e psicologia orientais têm influenciado as práticas e os estudos no ocidente nas áreas da psicologia clínica e psicologia positiva. Várias pesquisas demonstram resultados positivos na clínica em relação à redução do estresse e dores crônicas (Mindfulness Based Stress Redution - MBSR); na redução da ansiedade e pânico (Mindfulness Based Stress Redution - MBSR e Acceptance e Commetimet Therapy - ACT). No tratamento de pacientes borderlines (Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT) e na prevenção de recaídas na depressão (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy - MBCT) entre outros. Na psicologia positiva, pesquisas foram realizadas com a hipótese de que seria possível promover emoções positivas seletivas como amor, contentamento e compaixão ao longo de meses utilizando-se Loving- Kindness Meditation (LKM). Esta técnica de meditação demonstrou ser capaz de evocar e incrementar emoções positivas que ajudam a ampliar estratégias de coping. Todavia, Loving- Kindness Meditation se aproxima do conceito de mindfulness quando é considerada uma técnica de atenção plena no momento presente, sem julgamento, mesmo que exista a intencionalidade de evocar pensamentos e emoções pré-determinadas. Com esta pesquisa bibliográfica buscou-se realizar um estudo teórico sobre : 1. O conceito da meditação mindfulness ressaltando os seus efeitos benéficos nos meditantes; 2. Intervenções clínicas baseadas no conceito de mindfulness; 3. O conceito da meditação Loving-Kindness Meditation e como esta é capaz de evocar e reforçar emoções positivas e por isso ser utilizada como ferramenta na psicologia positiva; 4. Elucidar como pode ampliar o coping e promover saúde mental. Em conclusão, a partir da análise da literatura existente, este estudo teórico sugere que um leque de processos está envolvido nos benefícios da meditação, incluindo maior consciência de si, aceitação das experiências, geração de emoções positivas e ampliação de recursos psicológicos. Mindfulness Vipassana Loving-Kindness Meditation presídio emoções positivas coping saúde mental Mindfulness Vipassana Loving-Kindness Meditation jail positive emotions coping mental health CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
14	Theravāda “Missionary Activity”: Exploring the Secular Features of Socio-Politics and Ethics Brugh, Christopher Scott 01 April 2019 (has links) The purpose of this thesis is to comprehensively explore Theravāda missionary activity. The philological, textual, theoretical, and ethnographic methods used to investigate the historical, sociopolitical, religious, and ethical aspects of early Theravāda, the U.S. Vipassanā (Insight) meditation movement, and modern Burmese Theravāda revealed nuanced meanings in the descriptions of these adherents’ endeavors with respect to proselytizing, converting, and the concept of missionary religions. By exploring the secular features that contributed to their religious appearances, a more developed contextualization of Theravāda “activity” reshapes understandings of the larger concept of missionary religions. I argue that what has been maintained in the establishment of early Theravāda, and continuance of Theravāda thereafter, is the preservation of a secular activity with respect to resolving diverse sociopolitical and ethical tensions through religious articulations and practices of tolerance and egalitarianism. In brief, the first chapter is a philological study on the Pāli word “desetha” or “preach.” The word desetha, and thus its meaning, is traced to its Prākritic form—a contemporaneous language more likely spoken by Gotama Buddha—to posit a more accurate translation for this word. Next, a theoretical examination into early Theravāda’s sociopolitical, ethical, and religious environment demonstrates the larger secular, rather than religious, features that contributed to this ancient movement’s emergence. A contextual analysis comparing the emergence and establishment of the “secular” U.S. Vipassanā (Insight) meditation movement to that of early Theravāda follows, in order to explore how the former aligns with Theravāda missionizing. Lastly, an ethnographic study on Burmese Buddhist monastics is presented. In relation to missionary activity, the Abhidhamma, a Buddhist doctrinal system, not only provides Burmese Buddhist monastics with a system of applied ethics that shapes how they interact with Buddhists and non-Buddhists in America, but also helps to explain the larger concern of viewing such activity as strictly “religious.” Buddhism Linguistics Burma Vipassana meditation movement Buddhist Studies Ethics in Religion Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
15	Guérir de soi dans la modernité : le cas de la pratique de la méditation Vipassana Demers, Bruno 12 1900 (has links) (PDF) La méditation Vipassana est une méthode de contemplation du corps et de l'esprit qui vise la cessation de la souffrance et, ultimement, la réalisation de l'Éveil. Issue de la modernisation du bouddhisme theravada, elle se pratique désormais de manière fortement déritualisée et connaît depuis les années soixante une popularité croissante, comme d'autres thérapeutiques spirituelles orientales. Parmi les plus influentes écoles du mouvement Vipassana figure la tradition du maître indien Satya Narayan Goenka, dont les centres internationaux offrent des retraites où la méditation s'apprend en silence selon un protocole rigoureusement codifié. Au terme des retraites, les participants sont encouragés à méditer tous les jours, à suivre d'autres cours et à vivre en harmonie avec le Dhamma, l'enseignement du Bouddha. À ce jour, près de deux millions de personnes auraient été initiées dans cette tradition. Pour saisir ce qu'un tel phénomène signifie dans la société moderne actuelle, cette étude socio-anthropologique se penche sur la pratique de la méditation Vipassana au Québec. L'auteur s'appuie sur une enquête ethnographique dans les centres de la tradition de Goenka, l'analyse des discours du maître, des entrevues avec des méditants et sa propre expérimentation méthodologique de la méditation Vipassana. L'étude commence par proposer une description critique et détaillée de ce en quoi consiste cette « technique », pour expliquer ensuite l'efficacité thérapeutique que les méditants lui attribuent, moteur de leur pratique. La recherche va pour ce faire au-delà de l'interprétation traditionnelle du pouvoir salvifique de la méditation. Combinant une position constructiviste avec des contributions complémentaires issues de l'étude du bouddhisme, de l'ethnopsychiatrie, de l'anthropologie et de la sociologie, elle identifie les conséquences implicites de sa pratique et les modalités de la « guérison » qu'elle produit. Sans nier ses effets réels, l'argument mis de l'avant est que la pratique méditative rituelle est indissociable d'un vaste processus rhétorique qui construit une nouvelle réalité symbolique et valorise une forme d'individualité en consonance avec le contexte actuel de la modernité avancée. L'étude conclut avec un retour critique sur la méthodologie d'une enquête reposant sur la participation expérientielle du chercheur à son objet. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : méditation Vipassana, efficacité thérapeutique, rhétorique, bouddhisme, modernité avancée, soi Goenka S. N. 1924- Aspect anthropologique Aspect sociologique Bouddhisme Méditation Modernité Vipassana (Bouddhisme) Québec (Province)
16	Reducing Subjectivity: Meditation and Implicit Bias Ciuca, Diana M 01 January 2015 (has links) Implicit association of racial stereotypes is brought about by social conditioning (Greenwald & Krieger, 2006). This conditioning can be explained by attractor networks (Sharp, 2011). Reducing implicit bias through meditation can show the effectiveness of reducing the rigidity of attractor networks, thereby reducing subjectivity. Mindfulness meditation has shown to reduce bias from the use of one single guided session conducted before performing an Implicit Association Test (Lueke & Gibson, 2015). Attachment to socially conditioned racial bias should become less prevalent through practicing meditation over time. An experimental model is proposed to test this claim along with a reconceptualization of consciousness based in meditative practice. Neuroscience Meditation Consciousness Race Bias Buddhism Vipassana Cognition and Perception Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Psychology Epistemology Experimental Analysis of Behavior Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind Systems Neuroscience Theory and Philosophy
17	'Universal Dharma' : authority, experience and metaphysics in the transmission of mindfulness-based stress reduction Drage, Matthew Nicholas January 2018 (has links) No description available.
18	[en] FOR A MINDFULNESS LITERATURE / [pt] POR UMA LITERATURA DA PLENA ATENÇÃO DIANA DE HOLLANDA CAVALCANTI 31 May 2017 (has links) [pt] Por uma literatura da plena atenção ergue mais uma ponte entre a sabedoria ocidental e a oriental, ao apontar como caminho para o conhecimento o budismo. A dissertação desvela o processo criativo do romance O homem dos patos, da própria autora, em dois planos. O primeiro se refere à formação de seu entendimento acerca do mundo a partir das Três Características: Anicca (Impermanência), Anatta (Não-eu) e Dukkha (Sofrimento). O segundo desenvolve como esse entendimento se conecta direta e indispensavelmente às práticas de Satipatthana (Plena atenção) e meditação Vipassana, e o que estas implicam no exercício literário. Trechos do romance se entremeiam à dissertação, que consiste em um trabalho literário à parte. / [en] For a mindfulness literature raises one more bridge between western and eastern wisdom, by pointing at buddhism as the path to knowledge. The dissertation reveals the creative process of the novel O homem dos patos, from the author herself, in two schemes. The first refers to the framing of her knowledge about the world around the Three characteristics: Anicca (Impermanence), Anatta (Egolessness) and Dukkha (Suffering). The second explains how this knowledge is directly and indispensably connected to the practices of Satipatthana (Mindfulness) and Vipassana meditation (Insight meditation), and how these affect the literary exercise. Excerpts of the novel are interwoven with the dissertation, which is an entirely new literary work. [pt] PROCESSO CRIATIVO [en] CREATIVE PROCESS [pt] LITERATURA CONTEMPORANEA [en] CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE [pt] ROMANCE [pt] BUDISMO [pt] O HOMEM DOS PATOS [pt] AS TRES CARACTERISTICAS [pt] MEDITACAO VIPASSANA [pt] PLENA ATENCAO
19	Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery Hart, M J Alexandra January 2010 (has links) This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science. The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do. Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process. It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact. The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail. A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported. It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact. On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment. The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency. Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches. 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