Cart
Free Shipping in the UK
Proud to be B-Corp

Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance Jay Kimiecik

Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance By Jay Kimiecik

Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance by Jay Kimiecik


£28.79
Condition - New
Only 2 left

Summary

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people's everyday lives.

Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance Summary

Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance: How We Lost the Felt Experience, Why it Matters, and How to Return to Our Natural Way of Being by Jay Kimiecik

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people's everyday lives.

Experiencing life without Feel has led to many deleterious performance, health, and wellbeing consequences. Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance takes a deep dive into the origins and definitions of Feel, asking what has happened to the Feel experience, and what people must do to recoup their Feel. With a highly accessible tone and clear structure, the book provides its readers with effective ways to improve performance and enhance wellbeing. The authors challenge the status quo of both performance science and wellbeing practices and begin a conversation on why people should be more proactive when it comes to their Feel.

Anyone interested in helping themselves or others with performance excellence and wellbeing will benefit from this book, which blends science and practice and provides many examples of people from all walks of life who live with Feel. The book will also be key reading for students and practitioners interested in sport psychology, leadership studies, mental health studies counselling, and life coaching.

About Jay Kimiecik

Jay Kimiecik is Associate Professor of Wellbeing in the Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health, Miami University, USA. His academic research is grounded in positive subjective experience and continually bridges the gap between the art and science of health behavior change. He has consulted with many health organizations and wrote the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Personal Fitness Program manual, which was used in hundreds of YMCAs in North America.

Doug Newburg was Faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA, for 15 years, where he was named to the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. He has also interviewed and worked with hundreds of performers and professionals in fields as diverse as sports, health, business, the military, medicine, and education.

Table of Contents

1. Feel Everywhere and Nowhere

The challenge of (mis)understanding Feel and the health and wellbeing consequences

2. Feel Lost?

How the felt experience got all mixed up with feelings and emotions

3. Science Goes in a Feel-less Direction

Why and how the scientific method relegated Feel to the backroom of human experience

4. Feel with Interest

Gaining clarity on the felt experience and its connection to freedom, meaning, and energy

5. Marketing Society Likes What You Want

How algorithms and illusions target feelings and distract us from Feel-based living

6. The Elephant Economy

Reconfiguring the Elephant/Rider metaphor as a means to balancing Feel with feelings

7. Touch, Feel, and Like the Damn Marshmallow

From a narrow marketing society view of success to a Feel-based one with interest and meaning

8. Feel With Living

Stories of the felt experience for optimal performance and wellbeing

9. Saving Our Elephants

Stepping off the path, reviving our Feel, and returning to a more natural way of being

Additional information

NGR9781032279015
9781032279015
103227901X
Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance: How We Lost the Felt Experience, Why it Matters, and How to Return to Our Natural Way of Being by Jay Kimiecik
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-12-13
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance