Health aspects of a new culture of consciousness

Summary of a forum contribution at the symposium "Applied Consciousness Science - Science in the service of the living" on 12 October 2012 in Bad Abbach

  • Niko Kohls
Keywords: Stress, Mindfulness, Consciousness

Abstract

In the workshop “health aspects of a new consciousness culture” the importance of the establishment of a health-related awareness culture in accordance with mindfulness theory was championed and justified on the basis of epidemiological data about health behaviours and psychological distress of the general public.

Author Biography

Niko Kohls

PD Dr. phil. Dr. habil. med., Dipl.-Psych., has been working for more than 15 years on the subject of mindfulness, spirituality and its connection with health and quality of life. Since 2008 he has been a Senior Fellow of the American Samueli Institute and heads the research area "Psychophysiology of Consciousness: Spirituality, Mindfulness, Quality of Life and Health" at the Generation Research Program of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Since 2012 PD Dr. Kohls has also been working as a scientific consultant for the Bewusstseinswissenschaften foundation. E-mail: kohls@grp.hwz.uni-muenchen.de

Published
2013-07-18