Psychology

The changes a woman’s body undergoes through her lifetime create natural rites of passage; each one offers an opportunity for spiritual growth.

We are now in a position where, aided both by contemplative neuroscience and neurotheology, we can state the axiom that the mystical is sui generis, while other religious events are sui generis only insofar as they are also mystical.

Let’s develop a sense of trusting the inner refuge – trusting more in this moment, trusting in the source.

Buddhist psychotherapy, which has been adopted in the last several decades, is a novel approach to the clinical practice of mental health.

In order to carefully assess the potential effects of meditative interventions it is of singular importance to ask whether enlightenment can be traced to specific neural correlates, cognition, or behavior.

To help address the mental challenges so many people face today, I categorized the basic tenets of yoga psychology into five broad principles.

The Pali/Sanskrit word for “intention,” cetanā, derives from two words meaning “to think” or “thinking,” and it can also just mean “mind.” But it also carries some less static meanings. Two of these, “intention” and “volition”, are arguably the most commonly known among both scholars and Buddhist practitioners alike.