Spirituality & Practices
Spirituality & Practices
- Practice definition clarity: What exactly is done—steps, posture, duration, frequency, sequencing.
- Intended outcome specification: Calm, insight, emotional regulation, compassion, attentional stability—distinctly defined.
- Phenomenological claim discipline: What is reported as experience vs asserted as truth about reality.
- Mechanism plausibility: How the practice plausibly affects attention, emotion, cognition, or behavior (without reductionism or mysticism).
- Progression and dosage: Beginner vs advanced stages; intensity escalation rules.
- Variability and individual differences: Temperament, trauma history, mental health, cultural background.
- Psychological risk screening: Dissociation, depersonalization, anxiety amplification, resurfacing trauma.
- Boundary to clinical care: Clear signals for when professional support is required.
- Ethical framing: Avoidance of superiority, bypassing, or moral elevation through practice.
- Integration into daily life: How insights translate into behavior, relationships, and responsibility.
- Authority claims: Whether teachers/practices assert infallibility or exclusive access to truth.
- Evidence posture: What is experiential, what is empirically supported, and what is unknown.
- Misuse risk: Practices used to justify passivity, avoidance, or withdrawal from obligations.
- Exit and stop criteria: When to pause, reduce, or stop practice.