Full-page full-color spread showing writers with writer's block on a small island: They are sitting at desks outside and engaged in self-destructive or contemplative behavior; fishing from the desk-top, making a fire of the papers, throwing their manuscripts into the ocean, drinking, sleeping on a desk, kicking a chair, drinking, pacing in a circle at the center of the island, etc.
Davidson et al. (2012) outlined how contemplative practices including mindfulness could benefit young people at the interlinked levels of neural substrates, psychological functioning, and behavior.
Most of the drama, such as it is, concerns their fluctuating emotions and moods, and Coppola conjures them with a calm, clear, contemplative attention to their behavior, their surroundings, their very presence.
Many potential participants were found to be in a pre-contemplative stage of readiness for change in health-related behavior, focused on more immediately pressing issues such as economic survival.
Havelock Ellis, the pioneering British physician, described the contemplative state in his landmark six-volume study of sexual behavior, published between 1897 and 1910.
Prior research has suggested that contemplative practices such as meditation may alleviate psychological problems, cultivate pro-social behavior, and promote self-awareness in positive, lasting ways.
How could the man who compared "In Search of Lost Time" to the Sistine Chapel ceiling also believe that "contemplative immersion" in a work of art was "a breeding ground for asocial behavior"?
It should be possible to strengthen these positive qualities and dispositions through systematic contemplative practices, which induce plastic changes in brain function and structure, supporting prosocial behavior and academic success in young people.
The new architecture at its best forces the user to notice or rethink conventional behavior: even in its quietest renditions, it insists that you enter a contemplative state.
Lee, who has wondered publicly about "my own violent nature" and "the nature of violent male behavior," is a searching poet of fathers and sons, alert to how domestic space warps around contemplative men and whatever latent rage their silence veils.
FriendFeed's decision to double down on realtime streaming of text has had several primary effects: increased usage, swarming behavior around live events, and pushback from some who fled Twitter to FriendFeed in search of more contemplative dialogue.
