Know there is but one god. The author, the creator, the governor of the world, almighty eternal and incomprehensible. To the one who is supreme most wise and beneficent and to whom alone belongs worship, adoration, thanks giving and praise. Pay therefore to his wisdom all honor and veneration. And bow down thy self in humble and submissive obedience to his supreme direction.
Read MoreSub Title:Jacquie Lewis, PhD
Have you ever gone to yoga class and then the next day you notice a sore or pulled muscle? Perhaps you bent down just a little too far when in the triangle pose or your lower back wasn’t quite ready for the full plough. Using mindfulness can help to soothe those muscles you pushed too far.
According to the book Mindfulness Yoga, by Frank Jude Boccio, yoga originally came about as a complement to meditation.
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There are many ways of approaching meditation? For example, meditation seems to be compatible with cognitive therapy, psychoanalysis, and humanistic/transpersonal psychology, even though these approaches are quite different. To understand meditation and how it compliments humanistic/transpersonal approaches one should reflect on the history of meditation in the West.
Sub Title:Jacquie Lewis, PhD
Recently the New York Times had a feature article titled “The Americanization of Mental Illness.” The article illustrated how the transfer of understanding of mental illness moves from West to East across the globe, changing, in its wake, the nature of mental illness as people experience it.
Consider the following example: In the beginning 1990’s Dr. Sing Lee, a psychiatrist at Chinese University of Hong Kong was studying anorexia in China.