The science of contemplation has focused on mindfulness in a manner quite disproportionate to its use in contemplative traditions. Mindfulness, as understood within the scientific community, is a practice that invites practitioners to disattend to words and images. The practitioner is meant to experience things as they "really are," unfolding here and now in the flux of embodied sensations. Yet the use of words and images, together with intentions, is a far more common contemplative practice. The authors present ethnographic research with a syncretic contemplative tradition, Integral Transformative practice (ITP), which grew out of the Human Potential Movement of the 1960s. The authors focus on the practice of "affirmations," in which practitioners seek to actualize spiritual goals by imagining future possibilities. Our ethnographic account invites new avenues for psychological research to illuminate the role of words and images in contemplation.

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被深思的沉思的一面：在综合精神实践中的言语，意象和意图。

沉思科学以一种与沉思传统中使用的不成比例的方式专注于正念。正如科学界所了解的那样，正念是一种鼓励从业者不愿使用文字和图像的做法。从业者的目的是体验事物的“真实存在”，并以其所体现的感官感在这里和现在展开。然而，使用文字和图像以及意图是一种更为普遍的沉思实践。作者介绍的民族志研究具有融合的沉思传统，即整体转化实践（ITP），它起源于1960年代的人类潜能运动。作者专注于“肯定”的实践，在实践中，实践者试图通过想象未来的可能性来实现精神目标。