Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness

Kenneth Tobin, EdD (University of Georgia, 1980), is Presidential Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Tobin taught high school science for a decade, and was a professor for 45 years. His research includes contemplative practices, wellness, wellbeing, and reflexive living.Konstantinos Alexakos, PhD (Columbia University, 2005), is Professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Research foci include teaching and learning, emotions, wellness and critical social issues with the goals of improving personal and global wellbeing, sustainability and education.

• Preface: Setting the Stage: Our Research on Emotion and WellnessList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Attaining and Sustaining WellnessKenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos2 Exploring Hidden Anxiety-Provoking Experiences through the Use of Oximeter Analysis and Cogenerative DialogueCorinna Brathwaite3 Ameliorating Disillusions: Navigating Stress Emotions in Teacher EducationShequana Wright-Chung4 Living through a Pandemic: Exploring Emotions and Experiences of Living in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic through NarrativesAnna Malyukova, Fatima Alexander, Mary Bullen, Maria Cadme, Xiao Ling He, Sara E. Johnson, Jenna Sclafani, Suellen Taragano and Tara Toye5 Reflections from an In(discreet) BodyCarolyne Ali-Khan6 Restoring the Balance: The Sacred Union of Our Divine Feminine and Masculine EnergiesSister Tibebwa7 Generating Perspectives of Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Case for IronMāoriTabitha McKenzie, Joanna Higgins, Suskya Goodall and Grant Zouch8 An Afro-Caribbean Science Teacher’s Quest for Healing: A Wellness ProjectTheila Smith9 Transforming African American Cultural Identity through Dance as a Wellness Practice: An Autoethnographic Movement of Self-RecoveryFrancie Johnson10 Personal and Environmental WellnessEleanor A. Miele11 Living with DepressionPiyanate Chuychai12 Reversing Osteoporosis: Lessons in AlignmentHema Daswani13 Learning from Alternative Methods of Care and Wellbeing of a Loved One: Exploring the Potential of Jin Shin JyutsuErnest Andre Poole14 “How Are You Today?” A Narrative, Introspective Look at the Relationship of Knowing and Feeling: An (Inter)Personal NarrativeErnest Andre Poole15 Taking Agency; Walking Away and Coming Home: How COVID-19 Changed My Relationship to My Job, My Emotional Wellbeing and Exploring Alternatives to Food as a Coping MechanismCorie A. McCallum16 Wellness during Illness: Improving the Quality of Life through Health Literacy in Mexican Children and Adolescents with Chronic Kidney DiseaseBeatríz Verónica Panduro Espinoza and S. Lizette Ramos de Robles17 Practicing Mindful Living as a Professional Learning Community in a Thai Elementary SchoolYau Yan Wong18 Total Involvement with Life: Being-in-the-FlowWolff-Michael RothIndex