Full Description
Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness: Priorities for Research and Education continues ongoing studies exploring relationships between expressed emotions, physiological changes in breathing patterns, blood circulation and wellness, and use of interventions to live with chronic disease and, when possible, restore healthy functioning of the body. Unique aspects of the book's chapters include complementary approaches and practices for self-care, caring for others, and harmonizing universal energy. To ameliorate emotions and enhance wellness a variety of healing and contemplative practices are discussed, including breathing meditation and mindfulness in everyday activities. In so doing, authors address a diverse set of critical issues, including education, resilience, vulnerability, racism, misogyny, bigotry, and poverty.
Contents
Preface: Setting the Stage: Our Research on Emotion and Wellness
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Attaining and Sustaining Wellness
Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos
2 Exploring Hidden Anxiety-Provoking Experiences through the Use of Oximeter Analysis and Cogenerative Dialogue
Corinna Brathwaite
3 Ameliorating Disillusions: Navigating Stress Emotions in Teacher Education
Shequana Wright-Chung
4 Living through a Pandemic: Exploring Emotions and Experiences of Living in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic through Narratives
Anna Malyukova, Fatima Alexander, Mary Bullen, Maria Cadme, Xiao Ling He, Sara E. Johnson, Jenna Sclafani, Suellen Taragano and Tara Toye
5 Reflections from an In(discreet) Body
Carolyne Ali-Khan
6 Restoring the Balance: The Sacred Union of Our Divine Feminine and Masculine Energies
Sister Tibebwa
7 Generating Perspectives of Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Case for IronMāori
Tabitha McKenzie, Joanna Higgins, Suskya Goodall and Grant Zouch
8 An Afro-Caribbean Science Teacher's Quest for Healing: A Wellness Project
Theila Smith
9 Transforming African American Cultural Identity through Dance as a Wellness Practice: An Autoethnographic Movement of Self-Recovery
Francie Johnson
10 Personal and Environmental Wellness
Eleanor A. Miele
11 Living with Depression
Piyanate Chuychai
12 Reversing Osteoporosis: Lessons in Alignment
Hema Daswani
13 Learning from Alternative Methods of Care and Wellbeing of a Loved One: Exploring the Potential of Jin Shin Jyutsu
Ernest Andre Poole
14 "How Are You Today?" A Narrative, Introspective Look at the Relationship of Knowing and Feeling: An (Inter)Personal Narrative
Ernest Andre Poole
15 Taking Agency; Walking Away and Coming Home: How COVID-19 Changed My Relationship to My Job, My Emotional Wellbeing and Exploring Alternatives to Food as a Coping Mechanism
Corie A. McCallum
16 Wellness during Illness: Improving the Quality of Life through Health Literacy in Mexican Children and Adolescents with Chronic Kidney Disease
Beatríz Verónica Panduro Espinoza and S. Lizette Ramos de Robles
17 Practicing Mindful Living as a Professional Learning Community in a Thai Elementary School
Yau Yan Wong
18 Total Involvement with Life: Being-in-the-Flow
Wolff-Michael Roth
Index
