The Understudied Side of Contemplation: Words, Images, and Intentions in a Syncretic Spiritual Practice
| Autor: | Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Joshua D Brahinsky, Michael Lifshitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Complementary and Manual Therapy
Mindfulness Imagery Psychotherapy Consciousness Contemplation media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Spiritual practice Human Potential Movement 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cognition Ethnography Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Spirituality Suggestion media_common Motivation Psychological research 05 social sciences Clinical Psychology Transformative learning Aesthetics Embodied cognition Psychology Goals 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Music Sports |
| Zdroj: | The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis. 68(2) |
| ISSN: | 1744-5183 |
| Popis: | The science of contemplation has focused on mindfulness in a manner quite disproportionate to its use in contemplative traditions. Mindfulness, as understood within the scientific community, is a practice that invites practitioners to disattend to words and images. The practitioner is meant to experience things as they "really are," unfolding here and now in the flux of embodied sensations. Yet the use of words and images, together with intentions, is a far more common contemplative practice. The authors present ethnographic research with a syncretic contemplative tradition, Integral Transformative practice (ITP), which grew out of the Human Potential Movement of the 1960s. The authors focus on the practice of "affirmations," in which practitioners seek to actualize spiritual goals by imagining future possibilities. Our ethnographic account invites new avenues for psychological research to illuminate the role of words and images in contemplation. |
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