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If you think you know what positive psychology is, think again! This book offers a new integrative vision for making life better that takes in the body and the brain, culture and society, childhood and development… A must read for students.
Chapter 7: Religion and Spirituality
Religion and Spirituality
Religion and Spirituality
If the only prayer you ever say in your life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
Learning objectives: at the end of the chapter you will be able to…
- Understand the relationship between religion, spirituality and wellbeing
- Position religion and spirituality within the LIFE model
- Conceptualise and assess spiritual transcendence
- Consider the relevance of Buddhism to PP
- Identify the ‘Four Noble Truths’ and the ‘Noble Eightfold Path’
- Understand the importance of compassion, and experience Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Appreciate yoga as a comprehensive system of psycho-spiritual development
- Draw on religious and spiritual traditions in developing new PPIs
List of Topics…
- Religion and spirituality
- The religion–health connection
- Self-transcendence
- The sacred
- Buddhism and Hinduism
- Acceptance and impermanence
- The four universal virtues
- The Buddhist precepts
- The five branches of yoga
- Patañjali's eight limbs of yoga
- Christianity, Islam and Judaism
- Developing PPIs from religion
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