The Awareness of Being: Mindfulness Embodied Cognition and Well-Being

Formative processes are always crossed by a link of meaning that orients us in the paths of existence and defines the structure of our being in the world. The contrast between the emotional/affective aspect and the rational/cognitive aspect represent the main source of tension (Dewey, 1968) that characterizes human suffering. The recent neuro-scientific acquisitions and the neuropedagogical field of investigation enriched by many speculative ideas (Minichiello & Pastena, 2015), favor the idea of a circular relationship between perception and action. The complexity of the educational event is characterized by a constant communicative-interpretative movement between the educating and the educator, where signatures of various kinds come into play. mindfulness (Siegel, 2011), as the subject’s ability to cultivate the wealth of experience (Siegel, 2015), could respond to the "social need" (Beck, 2000) of emotional management, with drive control (Gordon, 2014) to avoid drifting from conflict, which places the educational in a prominent formative position (Corona, De Giuseppe, 2016, p. 101).