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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Equanimity"”.
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Envisioning a Career With Purpose: Calling and Its Spiritual Underpinnings Among College Students
… of spiritual identity, spiritual quest, and equanimity consistent with the Astin, Astin, and Lindholm spirituality study. Both search for calling and presence of calling consisted of three parts consistent with Dik and Duffy's concept of calling: transcendent summons, purposeful work, and …
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Mathematical Poise and Movement in Thinking: The Zero Goes on Vacation
… thinks about numbers with exceptional poise or equanimity.
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Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon
… the contract of battle with a sort of biased equanimity—of course, the English are portrayed as more heroic and sympathetic, but the Vikings are referred to in a practical manner as seafarers or warriors. It is my contention that the Maldon poet treats the Vikings as natural parts of the …
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Dual Intransigence: An Assessment of the US-Iran Conflict and Prospects for Rapprochement
… the best position to begin negotiations based on equanimity and tolerance.</p>
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The Pursuit of Well-being: A Comparative Study of the PERMA Model in Positive Psychology and the Sacred Treasures in the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra — Focusing on ‘Meaning’ and ‘She(Upekṣā)’ 幸福追求：積極心理學PERMA模型與《瑜伽師地論》聖財的比較研究——以其中的「意義」與「捨」為核心
… and the Buddhist concept of ‘she’ (捨Upekṣā, equanimity) from the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra (Treatise on the Stages of Yogic Practice) as its core themes, comparing their similarities, differences, and potential integration in constructing well-being. The findings reveal that while the two concepts …
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T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy
… 8), provides the possibility of hope and equanimity in Eliot’s poem <em>The Waste Land</em> (1922), which depicts a world seemingly devoid of meaning. Not only can the influence of the <em>Yoga Sutras</em> be seen in the poetic form, style, and voice of <em>The Waste Land</em> and in the …
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Older adults’ experience of psychological therapy
… data yielded a core category of ‘moving towards equanimity’. The category can be understood as contributing to the older adult participants regaining emotional stability, mental calm and balance. Within the Professional Practice section the case study features the complexity of the therapeutic …
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A Three-Factor Model of Personality Predicts Changes in Depression and Subjective Well-Being Following Positive Psychology Interventions
… a three-factor solution interpreted to represent Equanimity, Insecurity, and Agency. The factors were then included in a latent growth curve model to determine how personality interacted with positive psychology interventions to predict depression and subjective well-being, both at baseline and …
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Taking the road less travelled: Exploring the link between curiosity and resilience with 1NZSAS
… to reconstruct resilience- beyond recovery or equanimity and towards capaci-ty for learning and thriving. This research unveils curiosity as a vital enabler for resilience. The relationship is studied in the context of resilience as a holistic, multifaceted and developable capability. The …
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From Burnout to Resilience: Executive Coaching as a Strategic Intervention in Cybersecurity Workforces
… the potential to increase mindfulness, promote equanimity and resilience, and arm individuals with strategies to navigate highly stressful and complex work environments. Thus, by extension, executive coaching may help to reduce errored and faulty thinking that can result from a burned out …
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Selfsame spaces: Gandhi, architecture and allusions in twentieth century India.
… towards a contrast between an inner life of equanimity and an outward life of coping with transience and contingencies. Indeed, on the one occasion Gandhi exclusively spoke about the denotative aspects of architecture, he did so in order to make those very aspects connote a deeper, more …
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A Study on Retention and Achievement: Assessment of International Students' Resilience and Coping Strategies
… structure of resilience (Meaningfulness, Equanimity, Self-Reliance, Perseverance, and Existential Aloneness), due to several cross loadings of the variables onto the factors, the analysis failed to verify the same variables contributed to the original 5-factor in RS. Plausible explanations …
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Mindfulness training for individuals in organisations: application, adaptation and perceived value
… (awareness of the wandering mind, embodiment, equanimity and kindness) and capacities developed (resilience, sense-of-self, multiple perspectives and possibility). I highlight how mindfulness enhanced the ability to work with difficult emotions, thoughts and sensations, opening participants up …
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Chamier the Epicurean : the life and works of George Chamier (1842-1915)
… that enabled Chamier to achieve an Epicurean equanimity he was able to find only fleetingly in the scramble of life in the settler colonies.
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
… Dublin to find Bloom, and it is Bloom with his equanimity and tolerance, who points the way to a “new Bloomusalem.” Bloom, in the midst of the stagnation and frustration of modern life, rekindles the Utopian vision and argues for the possibility of a better future.</p>
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Development of an intervention for orphans after the death of a parent on duty as a member of the South African Police Service
… in terms of meaningfulness, self-resilience, and equanimity. This demonstrates that despite ongoing emotional problems, peer relationships, and behavioral issues, the intervention successfully boosted their sense of meaning and self-resilience, a measure of their ability to believe in their own …
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Cultivating Sagehood in the Zhuangzi: Hanshan Deqing's Unified Reading of the Inner Chapters
… enabling one to deal with death and illness with equanimity and calm. Finally in chapter six, I explore Hanshan's commentary on chapter seven and illustrate the social and political implications of perfecting the substance of the Sage, for if the timing is right and the situation is fitting, the …