Higgins, Joe (2022) Understanding Selfhood to Elucidate the Phenomenology of Mindfulness. Philosophia. ISSN 0048-3893 (In Press)
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Abstract
The health benefits of practising mindfulness are well documented, yet the phenomenological mechanisms of such practice remain under-theorised from both ontogenetic and social perspectives. By leveraging an enactive perspective on selfhood, these lacunae can be addressed: firstly, it is argued that proper understanding of mindfulness – and the health benefits that mindfulness practices seek – relies on recognising the socio-embodied nature of the self; consequently, occasions in which the therapeutic need for mindfulness are most pressing will be shown to be inextricably tied to socio-embodied fluctuations across different stages of life. What emerges is a phenomenological understanding of mindfulness as allowing one to dwell in the sensuous density of the present and, through this, remain connected to the social world of open possibilities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | selfhood, mindfulness, phenomenology, enactivism, social ontology |
Subjects: | C800 Psychology |
Department: | Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology |
Depositing User: | Rachel Branson |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2022 09:32 |
Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2022 13:30 |
URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/48524 |
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