External Mindfulness, Secure (Non)-Attachment, and Healing Relational Trauma: Emerging Models of Wellness for Modern Buddhists and Buddhist Modernism

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External Mindfulness, Secure (Non)-Attachment, and Healing Relational Trauma: Emerging
Models of Wellness for Modern Buddhists and Buddhist Modernism

by Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida

The Unconscious Motivations for Meditation Practice, by J.Engler

https://mettarefuge.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/the-unconscious-motivations-for-meditation-practice/

The Unconscious Motivations for Meditation Practice

2011/12/09 BY STEVEN GOODHEART 

These remarks are excerpted from a day-long program given by Jack Engler at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) on November 1, l997. Jack has had a long association with Dharma study and practice. He studied Pali language and Abhidhamma at the Post-Graduate Institute of Buddhist Studies in Nalanda, Bihar, and practiced meditation for several years in India with Anagarika Munindraji and Dipa Ma. He also studied with the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw in Burma. He is co-author of Transformations of Consciousness (Shambhala, l986), and has been a clinical psychologist for more than twenty years. Jack is on the BCBS board of directors, and teaches in Barre from time to time.

A selection of Mindfulness Articles

A selection of Mindfulness Articles

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A selection of Mindfulness articles

June 5, 2015

Mindfulness has lost its Buddhist roots, and it may not be doing you good

Miguel Farias, Coventry University and Catherine Wikholm, University of Surrey

The mindfulness technique is being blindly sold and we are buying it hook line and sinker.

February 25, 2015

Good sleep gets harder as we age, but mindfulness could help

Jo Abbott, Swinburne University of Technology and Imogen Rehm, Swinburne University of Technology

By learning to become more aware of present-moment experiences, we learn not to react to thoughts and worries that can interfere with sleep.

September 22, 2015

How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable

Zoë Krupka, La Trobe University

Corporate culture has stripped the ancient practice of mindfulness of its spirituality and re-branded it as a modern solution to over-work.

January 10, 2016

Mindfulness can improve living with a disability

Yoon-Suk Hwang, Australian Catholic University

A recent review of studies has shown that mindfulness meditation helps people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder reduce their mental and physical problems.

January 1, 2014

Meditation, mindfulness and mind-emptiness

Ramesh Manocha, University of Sydney

Ever been unable to sleep because you can’t switch off that stream of thoughts that seems to flow incessantly, mercilessly through your head? When your mental noise distracts you from the task at hand…

October 2, 2014

Mindfulness: how to be in the moment … right here, right now

Maarten Immink, University of South Australia

Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. This quote by Leo Tolstoy in What Men Live By and Other…

August 5, 2015

Mindfulness therapy alleviates soldiers' PTSD, but only in the short term

Ian Hickie, University of Sydney and Jane Burns, University of Melbourne

A new study has found returned service people who underwent mindfulness-based therapies had a sharper short-term decline in PTSD symptoms than those undergoing other conventional therapies.

April 14, 2015

How a mindful approach to computer and smartphone use might just make you happier

Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel University London and Jeremy Hunter, Claremont Graduate University

Computers and smartphones make us stressed and ill. It's about time we rethought how we should be using them.

December 15, 2014

How mindfulness could give you the gift of a calmer Christmas

Anna Leyland, University of Sheffield

In the run-up to Christmas we find our to-do lists bloated with added chores: present shopping, card writing, preparing to travel or receive guests. We are bombarded with adverts telling us what to buy…

February 13, 2015

From A to zen: mindfulness in seven days

Alessandro R Demaio, Harvard University

If you’re anything like me, one thing you find really hard to do - is nothing. I mean, really - doing nothing. Taking a moment out for yourself, meditating on life, reflecting on your day, getting to that…

June 9, 2011

Mindfulness meditation offers help with the travails of chronic illness

Monika Merkes, La Trobe University

Drugs to relieve pain for people with chronic diseases are expensive and can have harmful side effects. But there are alternatives that promise benefits exceeding pain relief. Mindfulness meditation…

November 7, 2013

‘Mindfulness’ training improves self-control for youth in jail

New York University

The meditation-based therapy known as “mindfulness” training has been found to improve concentration in incarcerated adolescents…

April 3, 2014

Approach your laptop mindfully to avoid digital overload

Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel University London

Information overload has become an everyday experience for anyone who works with computers, owns a smartphone or waits at a bus stop with minute-by-minute updates about arrival times. And this information…

May 5, 2015

When it comes to information overload, we’re like frogs in boiling water

Andy Tattersall, University of Sheffield

There's ways to help tackle digital distraction - but they all revolve around you wanting to change.

November 1, 2013

Rumination and remedy: five ways to improve your outlook

Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool

It is the events that happen in our lives that determine the state of our mental health, rather than some inherent personal inadequacy or genetic flaw. And psychological processes, such as rumination and…

January 18, 2012

Beyond spirituality: the role of meditation in mental health

Jonathan Krygier, University of Sydney and Andrew H Kemp, University of Sydney

Meditation has traditionally been associated with Eastern mysticism but science is beginning to show that cultivating a “heightened” state of consciousness can have a major impact on our brain, the way…

June 29, 2015

Why meditation should be taught in schools

Lea Waters, University of Melbourne

New research in the fields of psychology, education and neuroscience shows teaching meditation in schools is having positive effects on students' well-being, social skills and academic skills.

August 26, 2014

How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education

Matt Wall, Imperial College London

During World War II, residents on the islands in the southern Pacific Ocean saw heavy activity by US planes, bringing in goods and supplies for the soldiers. In many cases, this was the islanders' first…

January 25, 2016

How science can teach us to be more relaxed

Trudi Edginton, University of Westminster

Modern life creates long-term stress our bodies aren't designed to cope with – but all is not lost.

March 18, 2015

How branding 101 can make leaders more mindful of diversity

Renée Richardson Gosline, MIT Sloan School of Management

Not in terms of the Kardashian-style "personal brands" in vogue these days, but by using the practice's core principles to make leaders better and more mindful of diversity.

May 15, 2015

Mental health momentum mustn’t give way to political expediency

Tony Warne, University of Salford and Sue McAndrew, University of Salford

Demand for mental healthcare continues to rise, and so should our demands to make provision for it.

September 11, 2015

Knitting your way to a healthier, happier mind

Ian Hickie, University of Sydney and Jackie Randles, University of Sydney

Neural Knitworks, an event first staged for National Science Week in 2014, has since grown into an Australia-wide engagement project promoting connections between knitting and brain health.

October 8, 2014

From decisions to disorders: how neuroscience is changing what we know about ourselves

Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Abdul Mohammed, Linnaeus University; Alejandro Anton Fernandez, Polytechnic University of Madrid; Andrea Santuy, Cajal Institute; Diana Furcila, Cajal Institute; Francesco Cavarretta, University of Milan, and Léon Homeyer, University of Stuttgart

People have wanted to understand our motivations, thoughts and behaviours since the ancient Greeks inscribed “know thyself” on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. And understanding the brain’s place in health…

August 18, 2015

Yoga may be the missing link to stroke survivors' rehabilitation

Maarten Immink, University of South Australia

One in six Australians will have a stroke in their lifetime. That's about 51,000 strokes per year, or one every ten minutes.

March 10, 2014

Mass online meditation lets you zone out in cyberspace

Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University

For the past year I’ve been experimenting with meditating live online with people around the world. Their chosen spot is not a temple or a church hall or a sitting room, but cyberspace. Meditation is fast…

April 8, 2015

Students with autism need targeted attention – not a cage

Leigh Burrows, Flinders University

A review has been announced into school policies in Canberra after it was reported that a school was restraining a child with Autism in a cage-like structure.

January 26, 2015

The unhealthy underside of the wellbeing agenda

Andre Spicer, City University London and Carl Cederström, Stockholm University

Last week, the 0.1% met at World Economic Forum annual gathering in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. While the official excuse to go there is to discuss and shape the global agenda – the theme dominating…

January 22, 2015

Well-being programmes in schools might be doing children more harm than good

Kathryn Ecclestone, University of Sheffield

Apocryphal depictions of an unprecedented crisis in young people’s mental ill-health and their general vulnerability have been accompanied by increasingly alarmist claims that only schools can address…

23 January, 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/23/is-mindfulness-making-us-ill

Is Mindfulness Making us ill ?

It’s the relaxation technique of choice, popular with employers and even the NHS. But some have found it can have unexpected effects

Mindful Nation UK report

http://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/images/reports/Mindfulness-APPG-Report_Mindful-Nation-UK_Oct2015.pdf

Mindful Nation UK report 

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness launched the Mindful
Nation UK report yesterday at Portcullis House.

Tricycle Talks: Mindfulness and Awareness in End of Life Care

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/tricycle-talks-mindfulness-and-awareness-end-life-care

October 09, 2015

Tricycle Talks: Mindfulness and Awareness in End of Life Care

Interfaith chaplain Pamela Gayle White speaks with four healthcare professionals on what they've learned from working with the dying.

A View on Buddhism : Fear, Anxiety and Phobia

http://viewonbuddhism.org/fear.html

A View on Buddhism :  Fear, Anxiety and Phobia

PAGE CONTENTS
What is Fear? Projection Addiction to Fear Suffering Phobia Western Therapies My Own Fear of Heights Healthy Fear  The Buddhist Approach Handling Unrealisitc Fear

My fear and doubts have vanished like mist
into the distance, never to disturb me again. 
I will die content and free from regrets.
This is the fruit of Dharma practice.
Milarepa, from 'Fruit of Dharma Practice'

Mental Illness according to Theravada Buddhism

http://btmar.org/files/pdf/Mental-Illness-Paper.pdf

Mental Illness according to Theravada Buddhism

Towards a Theory of Mental Illness Based upon the Buddha´s Teachings Bhikkhu Nandisena

Abstract 

An important contribution of Buddhism to the science of mental health and its treatment of mental illness would be to provide a “theory” that accurately describes reality. Considering that according to one recent report2 by the World Health Organization (WHO), within the next 20 years more people will be suffering from depression than any other health problem, the matter of understanding what really is mental illness is of the utmost importance if we are to find a successful treatment.

http://btmar.org/files/pdf/Mental-Illness-Paper.pdf