Mental balance and well-being: building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology.

By B. A. Wallace, S. Shapiro, Richard J. Davidson, Paul Ekman, Benedict Freedman, J. Haidt, M. Kemeny, Johanna Shapiro. American Psychologist, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Mindfulness and Sustainable Behavior: Pondering Attention and Awareness as Means for Increasing Green Behavior (2009, unknown): “In addition to attentional mindfulness, Wallace and Shapiro (2006) described conative mindfulness as “refl ection on meaningful and wholesome desires, recognizing unwholesome desires that will lead to suffering both for oneself and others” (p. 694).”
The Construct and Measurement of Peace of Mind (2013, methodology): “The fundamental concerns of Buddhism are as follows: To identify the inner causes of suffering, embrace the possibility of freedom from suffering, and explore the means by which one can realize such freedom (Wallace and Shapiro 2006).”
The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis. (2012, background): “The Western approaches, both the more comprehensive one on mental balance by Wallace and Shapiro (2006) and the more specific ones that center around the concepts of attention and shift of perspectives, were not really tested in the current studies, but the results (especially those obtained in the…”
Eastern Conceptualizations of Happiness: Fundamental Differences with Western Views (2013, unknown): “Buddhism advocates a state of happiness which is not dependent on any external or internal pleasurable stimuli (Wallace and Shapiro 2006).”
A Model of Mindful Parenting: Implications for Parent–Child Relationships and Prevention Research (2009, background): “…perspective, mindfulness can promote a deeper and more enduring sense of well-being found through simply being with whatever is happening in the present moment, with a recognition that it will pass and be replaced by a new experience in the next moment (Kabat-Zinn 2003; Wallace and Shapiro 2006).”
Mindful tourist experiences: A Buddhist perspective (2017, background): “…interpretation of ‘meditative mindfulness’ (MM) as the theoretical foundation for understanding how certain kinds of tourism experiences can result in psychological benefits such as cultivating improved mental health and wellbeing (Kabat-Zinn, 1991, 2002; Siegel, 2009; Wallace & Shapiro, 2006).”
Evolving Conceptions of Mindfulness in Clinical Settings (2009, background): “This shift is considered an important attentional adjunct in developing mental balance (Wallace & Shapiro, 2006), and Teasdale and colleagues have presented evidence for the effectiveness of metacognitive awareness in preventing depressive relapse (Teasdale, 1999; Teasdale et al., 2002).”
Promoting Altruism Through Meditation: An 8-Week Randomized Controlled Pilot Study (2013, methodology): “By integrating motivation, attention, cognitive, and emotional aspects (Wallace and Shapiro 2006), meditation may offer a method by which such imagery can be utilized.”
Self-Reported Mindfulness Mediates the Relation Between Meditation Experience and Psychological Well-Being (2011, background): “Meditation contains techniques that aim at regaining mental balance and thus leading to enhanced well-being ( Wallace and Shapiro 2006 ).”
Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators (2011, background): “First, the fact that a mindful state of awareness attenuated emotional intensity perceived from positive pictures and did not specifically apply to negative pictures may reflect the fact that mindfulness endogenously enhances mood states (Zeidan et al., 2010; Wallace and Shapiro, 2006).”
Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness (2014, background): “In a Buddhist context pursuing personal happiness is seen as misguided: “And with the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own well-being as if it were their enemy” (Shantideva, 1997, p. 21, as cited in Wallace & Shapiro, 2006).”
Religious Beliefs as Reflective Elaborations on Intuitions: A Modified Dual-Process Model (2013, background): “As a result, reflective understandings of these techniques as, for example, access to another world or detachment from an illusory reality, are particularly relevant to practitioners (Wallace & Shapiro, 2006).”
Self-compassion versus global self-esteem: two different ways of relating to oneself. (2009, methodology): “concerning the causes and amelioration of suffering and to examine the usefulness of techniques such as mindfulness for adaptive functioning (see Wallace & Shapiro, 2006, for review).”
Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. (2008, background): “Unfortunately, little empirical research has been done on LKM (Wallace, 2006), and the nature and extent of its effects remains largely unknown.”