Contemporary Meditation and Environment: A Sustainable Solution to Solving Problem of Microplastic Pollution
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The article “Contemporary Meditation and the Environment: A Sustainable Solution to Solving the Problem of Microplastic Pollution” is based on research studies on environmental issues and offers sustainable methods to solve these problems. Various and long term destructive human activity has affected wide areas of the environment and Earth’s creatures, so an appropriate method for solving these environmental problems is the adjustment of human environmental behavior. One accepted and proven method for modifying environmental behavior is mindfulness training through contemporary meditation practices.
At present a critical environmental problem is microplastic pollution, which requires urgent problem solving. This article presents a microplastic pollution model that demands waste sorting in order to separate plastic waste from the rest. To change people’s behavior in waste sorting, it is necessary to educate them in the relevant topics such as the environmental problem of microplastic pollution, as well as the critical status that we are facing and its impact on creatures. The article suggests how waste sorting could solve the problem, pointing out its benefits.
After all these educational processes are established, the secular practice of contemporary meditation is required in order to become mindful. The principles of contemporary meditation in this research comes from the study of the successful strategies of TM meditation and MBSR meditation.
In conclusion, the contemporary meditation practice in this research could help people to focus on their activities in daily life. Mindfulness in daily activities and awareness of environmental problems such as microplastic pollution leads to voluntary changes in people’s garbage sorting behavior. This is the beginning of a sustainable
method for solving the environmental problems.
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