Ep 3: Music and Meditative Experience with Frank Diaz

about frank

Frank M. Diaz, Ph.D., is the founder and lead teacher of the Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy (MBWP) program, and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Music Education, Co-Director of the Music and Mind Lab, and Affiliate Member of the Cognitive Science Department at Indiana University. Frank has been a dedicated meditation practitioner for over 20 years, having studied with various teachers and in a number of contemplative traditions. An ordained lay Zen teacher, Frank has been teaching meditation in both secular and religious settings for over a decade. His work as a meditation teacher and researcher has been featured in media outlets such as the Huffington Post and Science Daily, and in publications such as Oregon Quarterly, Psychology of Music, and the Journal of Research in Music Education.

in this episode

So much great stuff in this conversation including:

• What mindfulness is and isn’t

• Mindfulness and music-making in the broader context of meditative experience

• Meta-awareness, object orientation, and de-reification as essential elements of mindfulness and meditative experience

• The role of ethics in both meditative and musical experience

• The Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy Program

• Peak performance as an ecological construct

• Elements of mindfulness in Arnold Jacobs’ pedagogy

learn more

Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy

Frank Diaz’s page on the IU website

Mindfulness, attention, and flow during music listening: an empirical investigation (Paper by Frank Diaz)

Relationships Among Meditation, Perfectionism, Mindfulness, and Performance Anxiety Among Collegiate Music Students (Paper by Frank Diaz)

Investigating the Phenomenological Matrix of Mindfulness-related Practices from a Neurocognitive Perspective (Paper Frank refers to exploring phenomenological and neurocognitive understandings of mindfulness)