{"product_id":"contemplative-practices-for-sustaining-wellness-priorities-for-research-and-education-9789004527331","title":"Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness: Priorities for Research and Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemplative 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210856587607,"sku":"9789004527331","price":158.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemplative-practices-for-sustaining-wellness-priorities-for-research-and-education-9789004527331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}