From Self to No-Self to All-Self

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Culliney ◽  
David Jones
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Peak Performance ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
The World ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
Family Harmony

Chapter 9 explores how individuals working to attain peak performance are at their best when intimately embedded and engaged in their chosen sector of the world, moving with and helping to shape its creative turbulence. Primarily focusing on the Buddhist notion of an enlightened self, we propose the sage ideally represents the fractal self with Confucian and Daoist philosophies complementing Buddhist thinkers in their conscious struggle against problems arising in selves devoted to an integrity way of being. The Buddhist self becomes the paradigmatic model for a self of intimacy. In intimacy, knowledge resides at the interface of self and world and free-will manifests in our evolved nature with our option to choose constructive engagement with our world—from family harmony to international well-being and biospheric sustainability. This chapter takes readers into discussions that may seem paradoxical, as in the concept of no-self and the sources of suffering, barriers to approaching nirvana. The Western notion of an individuated human soul dissolves into the unbounded vision of the self of intimacy that Buddhists believe is realized in traveling the “Eightfold Path.” Bash?’s poetry evokes the Path and opens vistas of compassion and enlightenment in the quest of a fractal self.

scholarly journals Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110557
Author(s):  
Kaisa Tiusanen
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Subject ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

In the world of wellness, food and eating are fundamentally important to one’s subjectivity: the self in this sphere is created and maintained through food consumption along a plant-based, ‘wholesome’ and healthy personal journey to well-being. This article focuses on the analysis of wellness food blogs run by women, aiming to map out the technologies of the self through which the ‘ideal wellness subject’ is created. The analysis examines technologies of subjectivity as they aspire towards (1) balance, (2) healing and (3) narrativization of the self. The article suggests that the subjectivities related to wellness culture draw from postfeminist and healthist ideologies and are based on a neoliberal discourse of individuality and self-control. The sociocultural indifference of wellness culture and its prerogative to police the self through culturally hegemonic pursuits based on (the right kind of) consumption makes the language of wellness a prominent neoliberal discourse.

Some words on Jung, self, and mandala

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
T.V. Danylova ◽  
◽  
I.M. Hoian ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Human ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Spiritual Unity

Trying to reconcile the continuity of being with the discreteness of consciousness, modern seekers for the truth appeal to the Eastern mystical traditions based on the idea of the unity of all things and singularity of the world. In terms of analytical psychology, to overcome the human alienation from the world and from themselves is to return to his/her Self. C.G. Jung considered the reintegration of a personality to be a prerequisite for solving the spiritual, social, ethical, and political problems humanity is facing now. This process is the basis for the integrity of the psyche. Successful reintegration requires centering, that is, unification with everything that exists into one organic whole. Observing his patients, the psychoanalyst concluded that the idea of centering was archetypal to the spiritual pole of the unconscious. His therapy was aimed at achieving the Self in the process of individuation, i.e., the reintegration of the instinctive and spiritual poles of the psyche. The process of individuation is similar to the reintegration process in Yoga philosophy, which is symbolized by a mandala that reintegrates the perception of the world and helps us to reconcile with the total cosmic reality. According to C.G. Jung, a mandala is the universal psychic image, the symbol of the Oneness, the deep essence of the human soul. C.G. Jung believed that the achievement of the Self was a natural process embedded in the individuals. The questions posed by a great psychoanalyst push us into searching for ourselves, the golden mean in ourselves, our actions, and our views. The salvation of a modern human in the contemporary world full of conflicts is to find the way to the spiritual unity with humankind, which is the highest manifestation of the spiritual unity with the universe. This becomes possible due to a return to our Self. The paper aims at analyzing the Jungian concept of the Self in the context of oriental religious and philosophical teachings.

White-Collar Career Advancement When Working From Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Navya Kumar ◽  
Swati Alok
Keyword(s):  
Career Advancement ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
New Model ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
Job Demands And Resources

Across the world, COVID-19 has driven millions of white-collar employees to work from home (WFH). Anticipated business benefits of WFH will likely compel employers to extend the work practice for several employees post-pandemic. WFH, by affecting job task execution, as well as opportunities to enhance and demonstrate capabilities, will hold implications for employee career advancement. In this context, a new model for career advancement is proposed, the competence career advancement model, comprising three cyclical stages (achieving, improving, and proving competence) based on the self-determination theory's psychological need for competence. The chapter covers job demands and resources that influence each stage of career advancement, as well as how these demands and resources are themselves affected under WFH conditions. Also discussed are the consequences of satisfaction/frustration through the stages of career advancement for worker well-being and work attitudes/outcomes. Human resource and technology practices to enable employee career advancement under WFH are suggested as well.

Connecting the Body and Mind

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-75
Author(s):  
Lesley S. McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Peak Performance ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Conscious Mind ◽  
Breathing Techniques ◽  
Impact Peak ◽  
Holistic Practice

Chapter Two delves more deeply into the holistic practice of yoga as it bridges the “conscious mind” and the “feeling body”—two parts of the “self” that are often considered as separate entities, but work holistically to impact well-being. Information on mindfulness, meditation, and pranayama, or the art of breathing, show how mindful movement and attention to the breath enhance focus and impact peak performance. The section on pranayama, or breath work, describes diaphragmatic breathing and the ujjayi breath as well as more advanced breathing techniques that either relax or stimulate body and mind. Basic information is given on yogic concepts such as chakras, bandhas, drishtis, mantras, and mudras to provide a foundation for the use of these techniques with specific populations.

scholarly journals Failure to Share Reality and its Consequences for Self-Concept Clarity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alysson Light ◽  
Matthew Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Network Diversity ◽  
The World

Shared Reality Theory argues that people are motivated to perceive the world in similar ways to people around them to fulfill epistemic and relational motives. However, most research on shared reality has focused on dyads. Taking a broader perspective, disagreement with members of one’s social networks may threaten shared reality, with downstream consequences for confidence in core cognitive structures, including the self-concept. In four studies, we manipulated (Study 1) and measured (Studies 2-4) perceived disagreement within an individual’s social network. Results revealed that, especially when epistemic and social motives were high, disagreeing with or perceiving disagreement in one’s social network was associated with lower self-concept clarity, which mediated negative consequences for well-being. Comparing network disagreement to network diversity, we found that disagreement better explained effects on self- concept clarity. These results suggest that one’s broader social network can impact attempts to share reality, with consequences for the self and well-being.

THE REFLECTION OF OWN ABSENCE IN THE WORLD BY LYRICAL SUBJECTS OF LATE WORKS BY EGOR LETOV

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Zinaida G. Stankovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
World Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
Lyrical Subject ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Centripetal Movement

t. The article is dedicated to the late works of Yegor Letov and explores the lyrical subject’s perception of the world in which he himself and people like him will no longer exist. The topic touches on the theme of death which is clearly manifesting itself in all works of the rock poet. It reveals that Letov’s lyrical subject fixes his absence in the world turning to images of nature that remain unchanged, to elements of people’s everyday life that persist without him and to the space of artistic work the contemporary to the poet. In parallel there is the self-reflection of Letov’s lyrical subject as a people’s rock poet who values living life and does not aim for pecuniary well-being. The lyrical subject of Letov when thinking about the life that will continue after the passing of his generation realizes that the world will turn upside down and become uncomfortable and unacceptable for him. The world of a deceased person will separate from the big world and begin a centripetal movement while the reverse of return will no longer be possible. An important motive is the distortion of memory about a real person, which will inevitably occur after an individual leaves the general world. Human himself will not be able to influence his posthumous fate. However shortly before his death Letov comes to a rather optimistic conclusion that he managed to transmit to living humans an undistorted healthy element of his world vision.

scholarly journals Defence versus Development: A Theory of Defensive and Expansive Self-Regulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Rojas Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Regulation Theory ◽  
The World

This article presents a macro theory of self-regulation: defensive and expansive self-regulation theory (DERT). It rests on two fundamental assumptions. First, it assumes the coexistence of two competing psychological systems: a defensive system motivated by the need for physical and psychological security, whose function is to protect the organism from harm to life and self, and an expansive system motivated by the needs for competence, relatedness and autonomy, whose function is the development of knowledge, skills, and social support. Second, DERT assumes a threefold distinction regarding consciousness, with psychological processes qualifying as either nonconscious, conscious or metaconscious. Based on the previous assumptions, the theory posits the coexistence of two self-regulatory modes: a defensive regulation, consisting of self-protective responses aimed at avoiding, escaping or fighting survival threats and self-threats, and an expansive regulation, consisting of non-defensive metaconsciousness of one’s psychological states and processes. Defensive regulation is assumed to be generally adaptive in the context of survival threats but not in that of self-threats. What is called for in the context of self-threats is expansive regulation, namely non-defensive metaconsciousness of the identifications, evaluations and interpretations of self, others and the world that cause the self-threats in the first place. The theory predicts that defensive and expansive regulation of self-threats cause psychological distress and well-being, and negative and positive interpersonal relationships, respectively.

Secularism and the Science of Well-Being

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Yaden ◽  
Jonathan Iwry ◽  
Emily Esfahani Smith ◽  
James O. Pawelski
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The World ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter draws from emerging research areas in positive psychology, the study of well-being, to consider evidence-based recommendations helping to fill some of the psychological and existential gaps in secular society. It discusses the development of positive psychology and its shift toward a meaning-oriented conception of human well-being, as well as scientific findings about meaning and its role in a flourishing life. Further, it argues for the importance of the humanities, alongside the methods of science, in exploring subjective and personal aspects of meaning. The chapter also discusses the study of self-transcendent experiences and how they can provide profound joy and meaning while influencing the relationship between the self and the world at large.

Is Neuroscience Relevant to Philosophy?

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 323-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Smith Churchland
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

Many questions concerning the nature of the mind have remained intractable since their first systematic discussion by the ancient Greeks. What is the nature of knowledge, and how is it possible to represent the world? What are consciousness and free will? What is the self and how is it that some organisms are more intelligent than others? Since it is now overwhelmingly evident that these are phenomena of the physical brain, it is not surprising that an established empirical and theoretical foundation in this domain has eluded us for so long. For in order to understand what we are and how we work, we must understand the brain and how it works. Yet the brain is exceedingly difficult to study, and research on any significant scale is critically dependent on advanced technology.

scholarly journals Well-Being, the Self, and Radical Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 251-270
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Change ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Prudential Value ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

Chapter 12 explores radical personal change and its relationship to well-being, welfare, or prudential value. Many theorists of welfare are committed to what is here called the future-based reasons view (FBR), which holds (1) that the best prudential choice in a situation is determined by which possible future has the greatest net welfare value for the subject and (2) what determines facts about future welfare are facts about the subject and the world at that future time. Although some cases of radical change are intuitively prudentially good, many cases of really radical change are not. Yet FBR has trouble explaining this. Many people instinctively reach for the notion of identity to solve this problem—arguing that really radical change cannot be good because it alters who someone is. Yet, as the chapter argues, there are reasons to doubt that appeals to identity are appropriate. The chapter ends with the suggestion that prudential facts may explain why and when retaining identity matters, rather than the other way around, and points to a possible way forward for a theorist of welfare committed to FBR.

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