A Contemplative Study of the Mind, Emotions, and Body / Krzysztof T. Konecki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konecki, Krzysztof T., author.

Series:

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 330.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 330

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Understanding how the mind works can provide insight into the meaning of various feelings and emotions. Rather than merely grasping empathy on an intellectual level, we can experience how it functions and emerges. By observing the mind, we can uncover how social assumptions and prejudices later filter these reactions. The book explores the interplay between mental processes, bodily reactions, and emotions. Contemplating the foundations of suffering or empathy can enrich our understanding of the emotional dimensions of how we perceive the world. Additionally, many psycho-social phenomena can be comprehended more deeply through critical-contemplative inquiry from a first-person perspective.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction

1 My Choice: Being Faithful to the Event

2 Content of the Book

Part 1: Self-Description with Reflection on Self and the World

1 Crossing Borders, Not Closing Them: the First-Person Perspective in Sociological Research

1 Introduction

2 But the Other One I Want to Understand Might Be Me

3 A/ Autoethnography

4 B/ Contemplative Studies 5 C/ Transformational Phenomenology Research

6 Theoretical Contemplation of First-Person Research Approaches

7 Summary and Conclusions

Part 2: Working with the Mind and Body

2 Phenomenological and Interactional Interpretations of Corporality and Intersubjectivity in Hatha Yoga

2 I Practice Hatha Yoga in Yoga Session: Self-Report with Contemplative Reflection

3 Interpretation

4 Conclusions

3 Who Am I When I Am Teaching? Self in Yoga Practice

2 Self-Observations and Their Self-Analysis

3 “Self-Observation/Self-Report – Krzysztof T. Konecki – January 28, 2020; Conducting a Session

4 A Note Summarizing the Main Topic of the above Session: “Concentration on Instructions and the Transfer of Technical Knowledge”

5 Need for a Response, Need for Interaction

6 Individual Practice and the Teacher as a Participant

7 Individual Practice

8 “Me as a Participant”

9 Conclusions

4 Can You Stop Your Mind and Your Daily Activities? An Analysis of Meditation in Yoga Practice

2 What Is Meditation?

3 Preparation for Meditation

4 Meditation as a Challenge: Pain, Negative Emotions, and Sleepiness

5 Self-Knowledge

6 The Course of Meditation – Racing Thoughts, Visions, Achieving Peace

7 Effortlessness

8 Self-Perception

9 Perception of the World: Changes in Perception of Being in the World

10 The Effects of Meditation: Reflections Afterward

11 Learning to Be in Meditation

12 Conclusions

Part 3: Applying Contemplation to Understand Suffering

5 Empathy! So What?

1 Instead of Introduction. Contemplative Memo

2 Empathy …

3 The Method

4 Contemplative Experiment

5 Explication of Results

6 Theorizing Empathy

7 Conclusions

6 A Contemplative Sociologist Looks at War

2 A Contemplative Explication of a Witness from a Neighboring Country

3 My Contemplative Coda

4 Communicating with Opponents regarding my Perceptions of the War

5 Conclusions

Conclusions

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-73673-5

OCLC:

1528958407

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004736733 DOI