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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"contemplative practices"”.
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The Impact of Contemplative Practices on Anxiety Level of Middle School Students
… and crippling disorders throughout adulthood. Contemplative practices, or practices aimed to bring a non-judgmental awareness of one’s internal and external experience, are being used across disciplines, professions, and cultures with the intention of relaxation, and bringing oneself to a more …
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The Role of Devotion (mos gus) in Tibetan Heart Essence Traditions: Devotional Affect and Its Relationship to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices (rdzogs chen)
… and Its Relationship to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices (rdzogs chen) examines how devotion, faith (dad pa), and awakened mind (byang chub kyi sems) function philosophically and epistemologically and in contemplative practices for the Nyingma (rnying ma) Tibetan Buddhist tradition. …
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The Development of the Scale of Contemplative Practice in Higher Education
… providing a framework for the concept of contemplative practices in an endeavor to support an eclectic understanding of cognition. Contemplative practices may benefit graduate student disposition and inform areas of educator preparation through the use of emotional adeptness in higher …
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Religion in Contemplative Studies
<p>This project is about the new field of contemplative studies, a field that seeks to use “contemplative” practices, derived mostly (though not entirely) from religious traditions in academic settings, prominently including college pedagogy. First, this project seeks to understand how …
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Whole Teachers: A Holistic Education Perspective on Krishnamurti‘s Educational Philosophy
… lives, teachers’ inner lives, teachers’ contemplative practices, teachers’ calling/vocation and teachers’ pedagogy. The findings of this inquiry reveal the awareness that exists among the participants with regards to their understanding of Krishnamurti’s educational philosophy and the way …
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Turning Inward: Students’ Experiences with Mindful Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy in Higher Education
<p>In the past 15-20 years, contemplative practices, designed to cultivate present-moment awareness, have become more common in K-12 educational settings with some growth in higher education contexts seeking to reorient around teaching the “whole student”. In response to calls that have also …
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MINDFULNESS, SELF-COMPASSION AND THREAT RELATED ATTENTIONAL BIAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY AND LONELINESS IN LATE ADOLESCENT COLLEGE STUDENTS.
… of anxious symptoms. Given the focus of contemplative practices on attentional awareness and control, this study examined whether mindfulness and self-compassion may contribute to decreased levels of anxiety and loneliness, in part, by influencing attentional mechanisms that may lower …
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The Significance of Meister Eckhart's View of the Self for Psychoanalytic Theories of Subjectivity: A Radical Hermeneutic Study
… Divina and centering prayer, two Christian contemplative practices. Based on the commentary, the author presents a fresh understanding of Eckhart's view of the self which emphasizes the unity between the soul and God in the process of God's birth in the soul (Gottesgeburt). Then, some of the …
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The less traveled way : Views of the reflective coach
… to explore the impact that reflection has on the practices of transformational coaches and how self-reflection reveals the coaching mindset. Throughout, the researcher intimately shares her devotionals which help her—a Black female Transformational Coach—and other coaches to remember, reflect, and …
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The Visible and Invisible Aspects of Miscarriage: A Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal Study
… as well as the traditions of active imagination, contemplative practices, and contemporary gestalt psychotherapy. The method attempted to illuminate the implicit, unformulated, and embodied aspects of women's experience through a contemplative process that involved close tracking of participants' …