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PSYCHOLOGY OF BUDDHISM AND HEALING METHOD OF JAPANESE SELF-REFLECTION; pp. 335–351 [PDF]
Trames, 2019 Buddhist psychology and Japanese Naikan therapy have deep historical connections. However, there has been a lack of research in religions studies comparing Naikan with its original Buddhist background.
W. G. Indunil Philip Shantha
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Can enlightenment be traced to specific neural correlates, cognition, or behavior? No, and (a qualified) Yes [PDF]
, 2013 The field of contemplative science is rapidly growing and integrating into the basic neurosciences, psychology, clinical sciences, and society-at-large.
David R. Vago +2 more
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MENTAL FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF THE LOVING HEART: FREE WILL AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Zygon, 2020 In Buddhism, Meditation and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom, Rick Repetti explains how the dynamics of Buddhist meditation can result in a kind of metacognition and metavolitional control that exceeds what is required for free will and defeats the
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Waking up to the Present: Vipassana Meditation and the Body [PDF]
, 2011 Using ethnographic methods I examine the process of learning vipassana meditation, a form of meditation in which the practitioner focuses on their bodily sensations, and the ways in which learning this form of meditation affects the practitioner\u27s ...
Geffre, Craig
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Mindfulness-based interventions for young offenders: a scoping review [PDF]
, 2018 Youth offending is a problem worldwide. Young people in the criminal justice system have frequently experienced adverse childhood circumstances, mental health problems, difficulties regulating emotions and poor quality of life.
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 171-182, March 2026.ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
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Self, Performativity and Vipassana Meditation: Some Theoretical Considerations
e-cadernos ces, 2010 The present proliferation of alternative and non-western practices challenges the way how modern selves are enacted, the distinction between ancient and contemporary, and obliges us to rethink the ways our bodies and minds are produced.
António Carvalho
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Mindfulness as a treatment for gambling disorder: current directions and issues [PDF]
, 2016 Mindfulness is a form of meditation that derives from Buddhist practice and is one of the fastest growing areas of psychological research. Studies investigating the role of mindfulness in the treatment of behavioural addictions have, to date, primarily ...
Griffiths, MD, Shonin, E, Van Gordon, W
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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Brain Sciences, 2021 Meditation experience has previously been shown to improve performance on behavioral assessments of attention, but the neural bases of this improvement are unknown.
Kathryn J. Devaney +5 more
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