Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

Tempone-Wiltshire, Julien; Matthews, Floren

doi:10.1007/s12671-024-02423-5

Mindfulness

2024

DOI: 10.1007/s12671-024-02423-5

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Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

Julien Tempone-Wiltshire,

Floren Matthews

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Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

Tempone-Wiltshire,

Matthews

2024

Mindfulness

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Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

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Matthews

2024

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A Comparison of the Effects of Ethics- Versus Wisdom-Based Mindfulness Practices on Prosocial Behaviour

Furnell,

Van Gordon,

Elander

2024

Mindfulness

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Objectives The study aimed to examine the impact of incorporating Buddhist ethics-based practices versus Buddhist ethics- and wisdom-based practices in an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on prosocial behaviour. Method Changes in behaviour were evaluated through the subcategories of monetary donation, prosocial attitudes, and volunteering engagement. Participants at a British university in China (n=67) were randomly assigned to either an MBI including concentration- and ethics-based practice (MBI-CE) or an MBI including concentration-, ethics-, and wisdom-based practice (MBI-CEW), with a study-as-usual control group. Throughout the intervention, participants attended weekly 2-hr face-to-face sessions and maintained daily meditation journals. Results Results showed that MBI-CEW participants exhibited significant increases in prosocial behaviour compared to MBI-CE and controls. No significant difference was observed in dispositional mindfulness or ethical responsibility between intervention groups. However, the MBI-CEW group experienced greater changes in levels of sense of connectedness, as well as greater changes in levels of prosocial tendencies than the MBI-CE group. Conclusions The findings emphasize the influence of integrating wisdom-based practices into MBIs on prosocial behaviour and suggest that transcending an individualistic sense of self may play a more prominent role in enhancing prosocial tendencies than heightened awareness or moral reasoning. Preregistration This study was not preregistered

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The nature of nonduality: The epistemic implications of meditative and psychedelic experiences

Tempone‐Wiltshire,

Matthews

2024

Anthropol of Consciousness

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In Jylkkä's (Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2022) Mary on Acid: Experiences of unity and the epistemic gap, the author contends that psychedelic experience, by inducing unitary—nondual—experiences of subject–object dissolution, brings to light the epistemic gap between unitary knowledge, constituted by experience, and relational knowledge, distinct from experience. Jylkkä draws a connection between the nondual experience as occasioned through psychedelic usage, and Buddhist contemplative practices. While Jylkkä's attempt to establish a dialogue between analytic philosophy, Buddhism and the science of psychedelics is laudable, we contend that more rigorous attention is required to characterizing nondual experience, the forms of experience occasioned by psychedelic use, and whether they truly constitute parallel to states cultivated through Buddhist practice traditions. While such parallelism may speak to a deeper unification, such a claim requires substantiation to avoid the perennialist eliding of the varied and rich engagement with nonduality across completive traditions. This article highlights the internal tensions that exist surrounding the nature of the nondual as elucidated across Indo‐Tibetan traditions, dangers of decontextualizing states induced through culturally embedded contemplative practices including the underrecognized epistemic function of ceremonial ethnomedicine usage in generating Indigenous metaphysics; and the under acknowledged potential of psychedelic substances for attenuating introspective bias in first‐person phenomenological inquiry.

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Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

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Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

Embodied Minds: An Embodied Cognitivist Understanding of Mindfulness in Public Health

A Comparison of the Effects of Ethics- Versus Wisdom-Based Mindfulness Practices on Prosocial Behaviour

The nature of nonduality: The epistemic implications of meditative and psychedelic experiences

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