--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Vaj, > > Dr. B. Alan Wallace and Dr. Shauna L. Shapiro have written an article > that has been published in this months edition of American > Psychologist. The article is titled "Mental Balance and Well- Being: > Building Bridges Between Buddhism and Western Psychology." > > Abstract: > > Clinical psychology has focused primarily on the diagnosis and > treatment of mental disease, and only recently has scientific > attention turned to understanding and cultivating positive mental > health. The Buddhist tradition, on the other hand, has focused for > over 2,500 years on cultivating exceptional states of mental well- > being as well as identifying and treating psychological problems. > This article attempts to draw on centuries of Buddhist experiential > and theoretical inquiry as well as current Western experimental > research to highlight specific themes that are particularly relevant > to exploring the nature of mental health. Specifically, the authors > discuss the nature of mental well-being and then present an > innovative model of how to attain such well-being through the > cultivation of four types of mental balance: conative, attentional, > cognitive, and affective. > > If you would like to download the article in pdf format, you can do > so by clicking here or going to www.sbinstitute.com/mentalbalance.pdf > > Joyfully,
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