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

Jay Kimiecik, Doug Newburg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000803860
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Subtopic: Arte performativa

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• A note to readers
• A guide to Feel language
• Acknowledgments
• 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 wellbeing and performance
• 9. Saving our Elephants: stepping off the path, reviving our Feel, and returning to a more natural way of being
• Index