RT Book, Section T1 Human flourishing through dance practice. A1 Vartanian, Meghedi A1 Khorsandi, Shahrzad A1 Sancho Escanero, Luisa A1 Acedo-Carmona, Cristina A1 Christensen, Julia A1 Sancho Escanero, Luisa K1 Danza - Aspectos psicológicos AB Empirical evidence from affective neuroscience and experimental psychologyreveals that individuals who consider themselves “happy” and “self-actualized”,generally, have three important components in their life: they have regular experiences of hedonia (pleasure/positive affect), eudemonia (life meaning) andagency (a feeling of engagement/being in control of one’s life) (Seligman et al.,2005; Kringelbach and Berridge, 2009).Life does not always afford easily accessible opportunities to experience thesethree components and to flourish as a person. Resilience, the cognitive capacityto deal with adversity (Wu et al., 2013), can include seeking out opportunitieswhere pleasure, eudemonia and agency can be experienced, when they are notoffered by everyday life. The arts, and, in particular, dance practice, are contextsin which opportunities for experiencing these three components of a flourishinglife can be experienced regularly. For this, mindful practices that foster empathyand agency need to PB Routledge YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36518 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36518 LA eng NO En: Chemi, T., Brattico, E., Fjorback, L.O., & Harmat, L. (Eds.). (2023). Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158790 NO https://www.routledge.com/our-products/open-access-books/publishing-oa-books/chapters?srsltid=AfmBOooRj1x7xAjYaQ9TTG0Xat7znCZHPncQacDRkuvTOT9lQ1TCOeEl NO British Academy project ref. "Mobility Award" PM160240, University College London.Max Planck Institute DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 21 ene 2026