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1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 The Healing Paradox of Controlled Behavior: A
Perspective from Mindfulness-Based Interventions Asaf Federman Sagol Center
for Brain and Mind, Muda Institute, IDC Herzliya Oren Ergas Beit Berl
Academic College and Hebr"
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ISSN 1076-9005
Volume 25, 2018
The Healing Paradox of
Controlled Behavior: A Perspective from Mindfulness-Based
Interventions
Asaf Federman
Sagol Center for Brain and Mind, Muda Institute, IDC Herzliya
Oren Ergas
Beit Berl Academic College and Hebrew University
In this paper, we
discuss the issue of free will as it may be informed by an analysis
of originally Buddhism-based meditative disciplines such as
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based
cognitive therapy (MBCT), and related mindfulness-based interventions
(MBIs) that are deployed in a variety of therapeutic contexts. We
analyze the mechanics of these forms of mindfulness meditation,
paying particular attention to the ways in which they appear to
enable individual practitioners to reduce a variety of otherwise
unwholesome mental and behavioral factors, such as habituated or
conditioned dispositions to reactivity, that are intuitively
associated with increasingly ineffective agency or diminished free
will, while increasing wholesome mental and behavioral tendencies,
such as spontaneous responsiveness. We pay particular attention to a
somewhat paradoxical way in which direct efforts at control are
counter-productive, on the one hand, while meditative practices
designed to cultivate “choiceless awareness,” a sort of non-control
associated with a non-judgmental acceptance of things beyond our
control, tend to indirectly increase self-regulative abilities, on
the other hand.
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