Psychology of mindfulness / Kimiyo Murata-Soraci, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- From the heart : compassionate knowing in the heart and Diamond Sutras / David Jones -- Remembering the vast emptiness / Kimiyo Murata-Soraci -- No mindfulness without self-boundaries / Klaus Blaser -- Awareness in Karl Jaspers's general psychotherapy / Elena Bezzubova, University of California, Irvine and New Center of Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles -- Cognitive decentering : relation to constructs from cognitive behavioral therapy and positive psychology / Yoshinori Sugiura and Tomoko Sugiura and others -- Mindfulness-based approaches in cultural populations / Keisha-Gaye N. O'Garo and Christopher L. Edwards and others -- Mindfulness-based interventions : evaluating the biopsychosocial effects for patients with cancer / Elise E. Labbé, James McAbee and Kelley L. Drayer and others -- The effects of mindfulness on stress-related physiology, hormones and subjective reports in women / Saley A.C. Douglas, Charlotte Heleniak, Helen Valenstein, Sarah Ballard and M. Kathleen B. Lustyk and others -- Mindfulness : a gift to psychology? / Frank A.M. Vernooij and Jesse Vernooij and others -- Buttons : memory, mindfulness and the work of art / Patricia Trutty-Coohill -- Interspecies, human-animal relations / Don Ihde -- Contributors -- Index.

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In our daily attempt to make sense of life and the world, we come to realize that appropriation of life hinges upon our mindfulness. Being alert to how we dwell in the interior and exterior landscapes of our existence may yet turn around the present modes of living into a salutary condition and/or a better direction. And yet, in what sense(s) does "mindfulness" matter to us for genuinely experiencing our mortal time and for (re-)creation of the world? How successfully does "mindfulness" intervene the psycho-somatic experience of predicaments and enable us to better cope with times of distress.

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