Mastery of the mind east and west: Excellence in being and doing and everyday happiness

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1172, Issue , 2009, Pages 231-251

  Brown, Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow; Happiness; Meditation; Peak performance; Positive psychology; Vital engagement

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASKETBALL; BODY MOVEMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ENERGY BALANCE; HAPPINESS; HEALING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MEDITATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSICIAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION; SKIING; SKILL; SWIMMING; TACHISTOSCOPY; TIBETAN MEDICINE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRAINING; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WELLBEING;

EID: 69549097751     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1393.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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