Fontan outcomes: Is being educated as good as being wealthy and healthy?

MINDFULNESS IN PRACTICE Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Over the last 12 years, through my work at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University, I have been engaged with colleagues (both within CMRP and from other training centres in the UK) in an exploration of how to support the development of a robust professional practice context for our own teaching team and for the growing community of mindfulness-based teachers...

Art and Technique as two Different Territory for Dasein’s Being

In Being and Time Heidegger believes that Dasein is the only being who has existence, he also argues Dasein has two existential modes: authenticity and in-authenticity. inauthenticity is usual Dasein’s existence, A way of Being in which Dasein has strayed away of himself and has fallen into the chaos of others. In this way of Being he deals to beings as others do, just in terms of efficiency an...

An intraindividual process approach to the relationship between extraversion and positive affect: is acting extraverted as "good" as being extraverted?

This article investigates whether rapid variation within a person in extraversion is associated with positive affect variation in that person. In Study 1, participants reported their extraversion and positive affect every 3 hr for 2 weeks. Each participant was happier when acting extraverted than when acting introverted. Study 2's diary methodology replicated the relationship for weekly variati...

Collaborating in networked immersive spaces: as good as being there together?

In this paper we present the results of a trial in which two participants collaborated on a puzzle-solving task in networked virtual environments. The task was a Rubik’s cube type puzzle, and this meant that the two participants had to interact with the space and with each other very intensivelyFand they did this successfully despite the limitation of the networked situation. We compare collabo...