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Emily Vargas

Curing Depression with Mindfulness Meditation | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Psychologists from the University of Exeter recently published a study into "mindfulness-based cognitive therapy" (MBCT)
  • three quarters of the patients felt well enough to stop taking antidepressants
  • Professor Willem Kuyken, whose team at the Mood Disorders Centre of the University of Exeter in the UK carried out the research, says: "Anti-depressants are widely used by people who suffer from depression and that's because they tend to work. While they're very effective in helping reduce the symptoms of depression, when people come off them they are particularly vulnerable to relapse. For many people, MBCT seems to prevent that relapse. It could be an alternative to long-term antidepressant medication."
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  • MBCT was developed in the mid-Nineties by psychologists at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Toronto to help stabilize patients' moods during and after use of antidepressants.
  • Professor Williams is also the author of Mindfulness: An Eight Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World.
  • Concentrating on the rhythm of the breath helps produce a feeling of detachmen
  • , 47 per cent of patients with long-term depression suffered a relapse; the figure was 60 per cent among those taking medication alone. Other studies, including two published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, had comparable outcomes. As a result, the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has recommended MBCT since 2004
Samuel Sirota

Are Some of the Benefits of Exercise Due to Placebo Effects? | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Exercise makes us feel good, right?
  • we have found that you can manipulate the psychological experiences of exercise by altering environmental factors unrelated to the actual physical exercise someone is doing.
  • Remarkably, we have found that perceived fitness (or your belief about your fitness) is a better predictor of the psychological benefits of exercise
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  • Go ahead and exercise (it is clearly good for your physical and mental health)
joshua gallo

How to Practice Mindfulness Meditation | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Cultivating mindfulness is the key to overcoming suffering and recognizing natural wisdom: both our own and others'.
  • Mindfulness meditation is unique in that it is not directed toward getting us to be different from how we already are. Instead, it helps us become aware of what is already true moment by moment.
  • Instead of struggling to get away from experiences we find difficult, we practice being able to be with them.
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  • Perhaps surprisingly, many times we have a hard time staying simply present with happiness. We turn it into something more familiar, like worrying that it won't last or trying to keep it from fading away.
  • When we are mindful, we show up for our lives; we don't miss them in being distracted or in wishing for things to be different.
  • So, how do we actually practice mindfulness meditation? Once again, there are many different basic techniques. If you are interested in pursuing mindfulness within a particular tradition, one of the Buddhist ones or another, you might at some point wish to connect with a meditation instructor or take a class at a meditation center. Still, I can provide one form of basic instructions here so that you can begin.
Emily Vargas

Does Mindfulness Stress You Out? | Psychology Today - 0 views

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      Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13
       
      This is a small contradiction to my other articles Mindfulness causes anxiety?
  • we shouldn't be stressed out if we're practicing mindfulness or meditation
  • Yet I hear over and over from clients that the whole concept of mindfulness provokes anxiety
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  • the experience varies by culture and personal experience
  • especially relating to its application in pain and stress reduction.
  • acceptance, non-striving, and non-judging awareness.
  • It can be practiced virtually anywhere, anytime, requires no tools, no money, and no formal training
  • Wait, what? If that's true then why is the market flooded with meditation classes, audio guides, books, fancy retreats, phone apps, expensive pillows, bracelets, bobbles, and gizmos
  • Mindfulness is not a modern spiritual movemen
  • It's simply you at your most natural state of being.
  • That was mindfulness. It required nothing of you other than to be there
  • internalized someone else's idea of what it means to be mindful.
  • Maybe you tried it a few times and determined that your experience didn't match up with their description of what it should feel like. So you got frustrated and you quit. "It's too hard." "I'm terrible at it."
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2008), pp. 111-131 - 0 views

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    exercise effecting children
Alyssa Lau

Intimate distances: William James' introspection, Buddhist mindfulness, and experientia... - 0 views

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      Alyssa Lau on 07 Oct 13
       
      The idea of Mindfulness has grown in the last 60 years, it is use as an act of "therapy" rather than an act of "religion" Example of Traditional vs western ideals of mindfulness
  • approached as a therapy, to be studied and evaluated using established scientific methods, rather than as a religion
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  • Western Buddhism can be understood as a “culture of awakening,”
  • rather than a religion
  • To “wake up” existentially involves acting upon four “ennobling” tasks,
  • embrace dukkha (suffering, pain or unsatisfactoriness); let go of craving for things
  • nvolves caring for oneself and others.
  • he great risk of the engagement with mindfulness in the West, whether through Buddhist Studies or Psychology, is that it is taken as an object of study, to be written about, rather than as something to do or be.
  • Introspective observation is what we have to rely on first and foremost and always. The word introspection need hardly be defined – it means, of course, the looking into our own minds and reporting what we there discover. Every one agrees that we there discover states of consciousness (p. 185; emphasis in original).
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

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science placebo effect

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      psychological benefits associated with exercise
Brian Walsh

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  • were frightened of contracting HIV from infected water in float-tank centers. The business dried up.
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      Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
       
      Even when a product is doing great in sales, it can plummet because of a specific even that changes everyones view.
  • creativity in artists.
  • brain's focus from its dominant to its non-dominant hemisphere
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  • can improve
    • Paul Brahan
      Paul Brahan on 30 Sep 13
       
      Very interesting article about the benefits sensory deprivation chambers provide. 
  • The saturation of Epsom salts in the water made me unnaturally buoyant — my face, stomach, and knees an archipelago of islands amid the tub's ocean.
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 01 Oct 13
       
      So you go from bored, to anxiety, to peace?
  • For a tank newbie like me, the more intriguing aspects of floating include 1) its possibly imagined, Lilly-esque potential to reveal hidden layers of consciousness within, and 2) its proven capacity to chill people out. Suedfeld happily acknowledges point two. "Anything related to psychological stress," he says, "whether it's chronic tension headaches, insomnia, things with no known physical cause…after several floats, they really seem to improve."
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 01 Oct 13
       
      Are Epsom salts supposed to give a more relaxing feeling? Could it be the salts helping or just the actual floating?
  • There was no clear line between consciousness and unconsciousness. (I had no fear of drowning, as my buoyancy was such that it would be nearly impossible to roll over accidentally.)
kurt stavenhagen

Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits: A meta-analysis - 0 views

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  • Our findings suggest the usefulness of MBSR as an intervention for a broad range of chronic disorders and problems. In fact, the consistent and relatively strong level of effect sizes across very different types of sample indicates that mindfulness training might enhance general features of coping with distress and disability in everyday life, as well as under more extraordinary conditions of serious disorder or stress.
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      kurt stavenhagen on 24 Sep 13
       
      "broad range" is pre-frontal cortex the main center and improvement upon its functioning most responsible?
  • improvements were consistently seen across a spectrum of standardized mental health measures including psychological dimensions of quality of life scales, depression, anxiety, coping style and other affective dimensions of disability. Likewise, similar benefits were also found for health parameters of physical well-being, such as medical symptoms, sensory pain, physical impairment, and functional quality-of-life estimates, although measures of physically oriented measures were less frequently assessed in the studies as a whole.
  • a recent randomized study of depressives in remission found one-year relapse rates of major depressive episodes to be halved when conventional treatment was supplemented by a mindfulness program [3]. Another investigation of mindfulness training among anxiety and mood disorder patients showed pre- to postintervention improvements in mental health outcomes with an effect size of 0.7 [10].
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  • Mindfulness training may be an intervention with potential for helping many to learn to deal with chronic disease and stress. Nevertheless, we now need to test these claims more thoroughly by using well-defined patient populations, applying more stringent methodological procedures, and assessing objective disease markers in addition to self-reported psychosocial and functional indicators of distress.
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug., 2006), pp. 20... - 0 views

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      exercise increases molecules that support the growth and survival of brain cells
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    Increasing activity
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

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    Exercise and the Placebo Effect
Rebecca Lurie

Mindfulness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • is a spiritual or psychological faculty (indriya) that, according to the teaching of the Buddha, is considered to be of great importance in the path to enlightenment.
  • Enlightenment (bodhi) is a state of being in which greed, hatred and delusion (Pali: moha) have been overcome, abandoned and are absent from the mind. Mindfulness, which, among other things, is an attentive awareness of the reality of things (especially of the present moment) is an antidote to delusion and is considered as such a 'power'
Alyssa Lau

Mindfulness: Top-down or bottom-up emotion regulation strategy? - 0 views

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      Mindfulness gives off siginificant positive changes.  mechanics: emotion regulation strategies - the ability to regulation one emtion and emotional repsonses.  2 ways of emotional strategies:  1) top-down model: everything is affected from the upper level - Cognitive reappriasal - change the effort of the emotional reponse, In other words, a different meaning/ output that changes the input of emotions. 
  • direct modulation of emotion-generative brain regions without cognitively reappraise emotionally salient stimuli
  • bottom–up
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  • haracterized by a direct reduced reactivity of “lower” emotion-generative brain regions without an active recruitment of “higher” brain regions,
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      Alyssa Lau on 06 Oct 13
       
      Bottom- up model: Direct modulation of the regions of the brain that does not change the meaning of the emotional impact.  the lower level affects the upper levels of the model. - Characterization 
  • op–down em
  • otion regulation strategy facilitating positive cognitive reappraisal
  • if mindfulness training is primarily a bottom–up process, MBIs might be effective for patients not responding to traditional psychotherapies.
  • op–down mechanisms
  • cognitive reappraisal, to regulate unpleasant emotions
  • o assess whether mindfulness practice can be best described as a top–down emotion regulation strategy, as a bottom–up emotion regulation strategy, or as a combination of both strategies, on the basis of functional neuro-imaging studies employing emotion regulation paradigms.
  • mindfulness
  • raditionally been defined as an understanding of what is occurring before or beyond conceptual and emotional classifications about what is taking or has taken place
    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 06 Oct 13
       
      Binary of this paper: The Western definition of mindfulness vs. the traditional definition of mindfulness
  • classical descriptions of mindfulness
  • raditional contexts
  • raditional descriptions of mindfulness
  • asily translated within current Western theoretical frameworks
  • mindfulness
  • (1) a specific state that arises only when the individual is purposely attending to present moment experience, (2) a mental trait that differs both among and within different individuals at different time points, and (3) specific practices designed to cultivate and maintain the state of mindfulness
  • (1) modern clinical MBIs, such as MBSR and MBCT, that have been specifically developed to integrate the essence of ancient Buddhist practices with the modern clinical practice as a means to reduce a variety of physical and psychological symptoms
  • Alternatively, both processes could be more or less associated with mindfulness training depending on the emphasis given by specific instructors and traditions.
Richard Ofosuhene

Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition - Bishop - 2006 - Clinical Psychology: S... - 0 views

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  • approaches involve a rigorous program of training in meditation to cultivate the capacity to evoke and apply mindfulness to enhance emotional well-being and mental health. Mindfulness approaches are not considered relaxation or mood management techniques, however, but rather a form of mental training to reduce cognitive vulnerability to reactive modes of mind that might otherwise heighten stress and emotional distress or that may otherwise perpetuate psychopathology.1 The cultivation and practice of mindfulness through this program of mental training is thus thought to mediate observed effects on mood and behavior (Kabat-Zinn, 1990), but these speculations remain untested and thus unsubstantiated.
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    It's a good stuff.
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    It's a good stuff here.
Brian Walsh

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      They state that the patient maintains an upright posture and focuses on their breathing (usually). The patient regards thoughts and lets them pass by once they are addressed. But it's not a one process thing. It can be practiced in many ways
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      Brian Walsh on 04 Oct 13
       
      This paper's purpose was to address the concept of mindful mediation as a practice to reduce stress. They reference Hanh and Kabat-Zinn as to define what mindfulness is
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      Brian Walsh on 04 Oct 13
       
      I found the pdf but it wouldn't let me write on it so I'll just post everything on this page
Alyssa Lau

Relational mindfulness, spirituality, and the therapeutic bond - 0 views

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      Relational Mindfulness pracrice: the traditional style/ defintion of mindfulness Can contribute to the development of spiritual qualities such as transcendence, boundlessness, ultimact, and interconnectedness.  Enchaned by spitial compoents. 
  • spiritual aspects of mindfulness practice has the potential to deepen its benefits
  • Asian Journal of PsychiatryVolume 5, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 351–354This issue includes a special section on Spirituality and Psychiatry <img alt="Cover image" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com.esf.idm.oclc.org/content/image/1-s2.0-S1876201812X00054-cov150h.gif" class="toprightlogo"/> Relational mindfulness, spirituality, and the therapeutic bondMelissa D. Falb<img alt="Corresponding author contact information" src="http://origin-cdn.els-cdn.com.esf.idm.oclc.org/sd/entities/REcor.gif">, <img src="http://origin-cdn.els-cdn.com.esf.idm.oclc.org/sd/entities/REemail.gif" alt="E-mail the corresponding author">, Kenneth I. Pargament Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0232, United StatesReceived 10 April 2012Revised 23 July 2012Accepted 25 July 2012Available online 13 September 2012AbstractMindfulness training, which emphasizes deliberate non-judgmental attention to present moment
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  • connections between mindfulness, interpersonal relationships, and psychotherapy.
  • potential impact of relational mindfulness on the psychotherapeutic relationship.
  • ill consider the ways in which mindfulness practice might be considered spiritual and how this spiritual element is especially relevant to relational mindfulness ideas and practices.
  • The emerging concept of “relational mindfulness” focuses attention on the oft-neglected interpersonal aspects of mindfulness practices.
  • mindfulness practiced in relationship to other people.
  • emphasizing the interactions between two or more people who take a deliberate stance of awareness and attention to their emotional and bodily states as influenced by their dealings with one another.
  • ntentional awareness in relationship to another person can have healing benefits.
  • Relational mindfulness in particular appears to have potential to be an agent for cultivating enhanced interpersonal harmony
  • ttunement of an individual with the self
  • leads to an improved ability to attune with others
  • how psychotherapists relate to themselves (e.g. in a warm and accepting manner versus one which is hostile and controlling) is predictive of how they relate with patients.
    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 07 Oct 13
       
      A nice example of how relation mindfulness can influence psychotherapeutic outcomes on how psychoterapists relate and devlope relations between paients. 
  • mindfulness training can help mental health practitioners increase their understanding and awareness of qualities of mindfulness, as well as to model those processes in sessions with patients.
  • four qualities: transcendence, the sense that an object or experience goes beyond our everyday, usual, or ordinary understanding;
  • oundlessness, a sense of vast, unrestricted space and time; ultimacy,
  • are secular programs which have removed references to the Buddha and to Buddhist concepts in order to make these programs more widely accessible in a western, medical context.
  • relational mindfulness most obviously cultivates the spiritual quality of inter-connectedness, improving our sense of unity with a relationship partner
  • relational mindfulness practices can lead to a sense of transcendent relationship to another human being in that the “other” becomes seen from outside our ordinary (e.g. psychiatric) perspective,
  • hus, the qualities of spirituality can arise within a mindful relationship such as that cultivated through relational mindfulness practices.
Samuel Sirota

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      good exercise satisfies active life style
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