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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
       
      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.
Emily Vargas

Ethical Considerations About Spirituality in Social Work: Insights From a National Qual... - 0 views

  • 2,069 National Association of Social Workers members examined ethical concerns regarding religious and nonreligious spiritual issues in clinical practice settings
  • Practitioners' insights provide a basis to extend ethical guidelines in practice and education.
  • they likely lack guidelines for systematic ethical decision making about the use of spiritually oriented activities in practice
Emily Vargas

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

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      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."
Brian Walsh

Texting, Driving and Mindfulness | 21st Century Spirituality | Big Think - 0 views

  • save my Impreza,
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      What does this mean?
  • So I was shocked when moving to Los Angeles nearly two years ago to find how many times I’ve spotted people at lights and stop signs, head down, typing away, or worse, on the highway attempting a one-handed text. 
  • mindfulness meditation is making remarkable clinical strides.
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  • the list can include making coffee, breathing, going to the bathroom and walking.
  • Mindfulness is an important component of yoga asana classes.
  • he one ‘rule’ I have is that no one peers at their phones
  • Putting away the phone during a class is a valuable tool in helping overcome cell phone addiction
  • Funded by AT&T, the film looks into the lives of a handful of people who have either caused or been hurt by (or lost family to) accidents due to texting and driving—at this moment, 100,00 automobile accidents occur every year
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      There currently are way to many car accidents every year to due a lack of concentration by the driver. So many innocent lives have been ended tragically early due to carelessness of other drivers on the road, it truly is very sad  
    • Darren Ferony
       
      This article is about the dangers of texting on a cell phone while driving and how it takes away from our mindfulness. Multitasking severely decreases our focus and is not a practice of mindfulness. The author explains how mindfulness is important as it allows us to focus on one task at a time. Our cell phone use is an addiction that spikes our dopamine levels through the satisfaction we get from every text or notification. This addiction causes us to not be mindful sometimes and even do something as stupid as text and drive just because we do not realize it or cannot help it.
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Alyssa Lau

The "Overview Effect", Mindfulness and Travel - 0 views

    • Alyssa Lau
       
      SAVIKALPA SAMADHI: the highest of spiritual state of consciousness.  This conceptt of being conscious relates to Hanh's method of being present in the moment. Both of these concept explains that the perceptive of time and space is different but after several hours of practicing this method, the mind is in another world. Even though you are awake, and are completely aware of the present moment, you are able to have experience that is blissful and memorable.
  • Stepping outside of your own world (literally or figuratively) can lead to this sense of thankfulness and oneness, an emotional surge of compassion for just about everything.
  • once I saw the world as interconnected and people as more alike than I realized, it was impossible to ‘unsee’ it.
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  • nd a state of openness (learning from and appreciating that connectedness).
  • he most important benefit to travel for me has been the consistent reminder that we are all connected in one way or another, and we are all more alike than we think.
  • It’s both a state of thankfulness
  • she travels because she loves to learn and see and eat and understand, slowly moving from place to place in an attempt to get a feel for its people and its spirit, not just its sights.
  • The body is in a trancelike state, but the consciousness is fully perceptive of its blissful experience within”
  • I wrote about how part of what I sought from my travels was a desire to still the whirring in my mind,
  • to seek a form of mindfulness
  • Savikalpa samadhi, the highest of spiritual states of consciousness
  • In this state the conception of time and space is altogether different. For an hour or two hours you are completely in another world.”
  • travel does tend to push people to think about the forest through the trees and to constantly pin current observations against past experiences.
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      When a person is allow to travel, they discovered that it is not only used as a stress reliver but more of a learning experience. By being mindful in your travels, the person is allowed to live in the present moment, and learn that the world is indeed connected.
Robert Coady

Essentials of Buddhism - core concepts - 0 views

  • Four Noble Truths
  • Noble Eightfold Path
  • Three Characteristics of Existence
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  • Hindrances
  • Factors of Enlightenment   1. Mindfulness
  • 2. Investigation   3. Energy   4. Rapture   5. Tranquillity   6. Concentration   7. Equanimity 
  •   1. Sensuous lust   2. Aversion and ill will   3. Sloth and torpor   4. Restlessness and worry   5. Sceptical doubt
  • 2. Sorrow (dukkha)
  •    3. Selflessness (anatta)
  •    1. Transiency (anicca)
  • 1. Suffering exists   2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires   3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases   4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path
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

  • 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'
Brian Walsh

self help guide | Diigo - 0 views

    • Brian Walsh
       
      I feel like people are always seeking advice from outside sources about how to make their life better. They should just stop and think about themselves and they will get much further. People commonly need that push.
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Raising your self esteem will help you in many different areas, and becoming self aware will increase your self esteem by knowing more about yourself and working out your problems and knowing your advantages
Brian Walsh

Self Awareness - How self aware are you? | Diigo - 0 views

    • Brian Walsh
       
      It's very blunt in saying to ignore every other advice and therapy, mainly cause it's true. You are the therapist for yourself in order to become self aware and mindful
Emily Vargas

Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment of Depression - 1 views

  • (MBCT) is quickly gaining more popularity in treatment of various disorders including depression
  • improve one’s well-being, mindfulness, emotional regulation, positive mood, and spiritual experience while reducing stress, anxiety, and other problem
  • According to Jon Kabat-Zinn2,
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  • Applications of mindfulness include emotional problems such as stress and anxiety; behavioral problems such as eating, parenting, and addiction; disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorders; somatic problems including psoriasis, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain.
  • Mindfulness is not a state of doing but a state of being in which you are fully aware of the present moment and do not evaluate your inner or outer environment.
  • Mindfulness is a state of self-regulation of your attention and the ability to direct it towards breathing, eating, or something else. Curiosity, openness, and acceptance are all part of being mindful.
  • mindfulness can be defined as paying attention in a particular way on purpose in a present moment and non-judgmentally.
  • People who are depressed, often have lots of negative popping thoughts about their past
  • A combination of mindfulness based stress reduction and cognitive therapy has been shown to be very effective for treatment of depression.
  • MBCT was originally developed as a relapse prevention program to help people stay free of depression once they have fully recovered fr
  • om an episode.
  • Other studies have showed that the results achieved by MBCT were equivalent to the results achieved by antidepressants. Moreover, people who have bee trained in MBCT experienced less depression and significantly improved their quality of life.3
Brian Walsh

Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity | zen habits | Diigo - 0 views

    • Brian Walsh
       
      I find so much repetition within all these sources. Experiment, take your time, listen to others, look inside yourself. It seems like a straightforward concept now
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      Routines are a great way to stay organized. More organization means more clarity and room to think
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Establishing a relationship is another way to improve your happiness level. And it can be with anybody and it doesn't need to be close and special like that of a girlfriend or wife
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    • Brian Walsh
       
      Using help from others goes away from practicing mindfulness and becoming self aware. It's a little ironic that sources saying to not take help from others are others themselves, and people reading the article are taking direct help from others
Brian Walsh

Motivation and Self Improvement | PickTheBrain | Diigo - 0 views

    • Brian Walsh
       
      Following your muscles and the movements you make is also a good way to focus your mind
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Always be yourself, but yourself should be a person that's respectful of others. Mean people should realize that they might be disrespectful to others.
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Self awareness usually entitles asking yourself a lot of questions
Brian Walsh

Essentials of Buddhism - core concepts | Diigo - 0 views

    • Brian Walsh
       
      Mindfulness is always mentioned with Buddhism. Most of it's core concepts are from the original teaching of Buddhism.
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