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Title:: Embodied Approaches to Improving Psychological Resilience: Western Experience and Reflections on Traditional Chinese Methods

Keywords:: psychological resilience; embodied cognition; views on human body; physical therapies; psycho-physical cultivation

Abstract:: Embodied cognition advocates the psycho-physical unity and the embodiment of mood. The relevant empirical studies provide a theoretical basis for investigating how to improve psychological resilience with the help of human body. Western physical therapies and traditional Chinese methods of psycho-physical cultivation feature relatively rich practices of psycho-physical interference. The former are characterized by strong operability, definite treatment objectives and accurate theoretical models; the latter build a daily and long-lasting interference model, which highlights prevention rather than treatment on the basis of psycho-physical unity, a basic philosophical concept. It is of great significance to analyze and describe the characteristics of these therapies so as to provide beneficial references for exploring indigenous Chinese techniques to cultivate psychological resilience.