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Mindfulness: a traditional Buddhist wisdom to cope with the COVID-19 situation

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Title Mindfulness: a traditional Buddhist wisdom to cope with the COVID-19 situation
 
Creator Sinha, M
Mukhopadhyay, S
Panda, B K
 
Subject Buddhist wisdom
COVID-19 pandemic
Health & wellbeing
Mental health problems
Mindfulness
 
Description 164-172
Traditional Buddhist wisdom is always universal and relevant for mankind in overcoming suffering, also in disaster situations. Mindfulness as a traditional Buddhist practice has become popular in academic research as well as in public domain during the past three decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has landed us in a lot of anxiety, stress, worry, as well as other unforeseen physical, social, emotional, and economic severities. In this situation, we have a challenge to maintain mental strength, stability and togetherness to cope with this situation. The present paper explores the relevance of mindfulness along with its benefits and mentioning some practices for everyday life in reducing stress, anxiety, fear, worry, unnecessary panic towards any threat as well as improving mental health and well-being.
 
Date 2021-02-16T05:28:00Z
2021-02-16T05:28:00Z
2020-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/56230
 
Language en_US
 
Relation Int. Cl.20: G16H 20/70
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.19(Spl) [December 2020]