RELG 4800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Bdsm

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Religion-General Religion
• Course: RELG 4800
• Professor: Cynthia Hoehler Fatton

Document Summary

Erik braun - intro and ch. 9: benefits of mindfulness have become well known in the past decade, benefits include: increased attentional stability, better perceptual sensitivity, reduced stress, better regulation of emotion, etc. In chapter 9, mindful but not religious, erik braun explores how jon kabat-zinn"s presentation of meditation, above all in his writings about his mindfulness-based stress. Reduction program, conveys a profound sense of enchantment in other words, a deep sense of life"s fullness or value. A goal here is to draw attention to how fundamental conceptual categories, such as the secular and the scientific, are reworked in popular practice to change culture. In kabat-zinn"s mindfulness practice, meaning and worth are formulated as flowing naturally from mindful observation of everyday life, especially of painful experiences. The therapeutic goals and scientific framing of mbsr and mindfulness place practice explicitly outside any religious setting. Seen as experientially and empirically validated, the practice is taken to reveal a given reality available to all.