Contemplative Practices in Action
Subtitle: spirituality, meditation, and health
By: edited by Thomas G. Plante ; foreword by Huston Smith.
Contributors: Plante, Thomas G.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780313382567; 9780313382574
Subjects: Meditation -- Health aspects; Medicine -- Religious aspects; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics); Religion and Medicine; Spirituality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Similarity in diversity : four shared functions of contemplative practice systems / Doug Oman; title: Managing stress mindfully / Hooria Jazaieri and Shauna Shapiro; title: Translating spiritual ideals into daily life : the eight point program of passage meditation / Tim Flinders ... [et al.]; title: Centering prayer : a method of Christian meditation for our time / Jane Ferguson; title: Mantram repetition : a "portable contemplative practice" for modern times / Jill Bormann; title: The eternal is with me, I shall not fear : Jewish contemplative practices and well-being / Zari Weiss and David Levy; title: A comprehensive contemplative approach from the Islamic tradition / Aisha Hamdan; title: The path of yoga / T. Anne Richards; title: Zen and the transformation of emotional and physical stress into well being / Sarita Tamayo-Moraga and Darlene Cohen; title: The impact of meditation practices in the daily life of Silicon valley leaders / Andre L. Delbecq; title: Shaking the blues away : energizing spiritual practices for the treatment of chronic pain / Amy Wachholtz and Michelle J. Pearce; title: A pilgrimage from suffering to solidarity : walking the path of contemplative practices / Gerdenio Manuel, S.J. and Martha E. Stortz.