this technique is as old as time
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Flynn Coleman: Mindfulness: An Ancient Skill for Thriving in the Modern Innovation Economy - 0 views
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the author does thits well where he explains how it's not too difficult to be mindful and that it doesnt require as much as people might think, encouraging people to at least try it -
he author does thits well where he explains how it's not too difficult to be mindful and that it doesnt require as much as people might think, encouraging people to at least try it
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repetition of creativity, stressing that it leads to innovation and that achieving introspection is an important step
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an anomaly, saying that all you have to do is pay attention, that it is just that simple and just that difficult.
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he emphasizes trust and connecting the dots, similar to the relationship between mindfulness and creativity
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Slowing down, taking a step back, and even napping and mind-wandering, interspersed with diligent focus, are all part of creative mindfulness.
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"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
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12 Essential Rules to Live More Like a Zen Monk : zenhabits - 2 views
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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize
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Smile, breathe and go slowly
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who among us can’t use a little more concentration, tranquility, and mindfulness in our lives?
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine
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Do one thing at a time.
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Do it slowly and deliberately.
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Do it completely.
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Do less.
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Put space between things.
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Develop rituals.
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Designate time for certain things.
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Devote time to sitting.
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Smile and serve others.
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Make cleaning and cooking become meditation.
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Think about what is necessary.
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Live simply.
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Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water
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The concept of mindfulness is expressed in a set of rules that were created through the observation of the masters of Zen- Zen monks. The author expresses that it is possible to modernize mindfulness, and that it is possible to live more like a Zen monk without actually becoming one.
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“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
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simplicity of their lives, the concentration and mindfulness of every activity, the calm and peace they find in their days.
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“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
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This article reviews and reiterates many of the ideas that we read about in class, from a different point of view.
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West Meets East - 0 views
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The new centers often were staffed by Western teachers,
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many of whom had first encountered meditation in the Peace Corps and later trained in monastic settings in the East
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Creating a new wisdom tradition
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None of us wanted ou
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supervisors or clinical teammates to think of us as having unresolved infantile longings to return to a state of oceanic oneness
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how radically meditation practices could transform the mind. Therapists of the day typically viewed meditation as either a fading hippie pursuit or a useful means of relaxation, but of little additional valu
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mindfulness meditation was making inroads into the medical community.
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, who, beginning in 1979, had adapted ancient Buddhist and yogic practices to create Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.
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MBSR was used primarily to augment the treatment of stress-related medical disorders, and was of particular interest to clinicians working in behavioral medicine.
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The first use of mindfulness in psychotherapy to capture widespread attention among clinicians was Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), introduced in the early 1990s to treat suicidal individuals with complex disorders for which little else seemed to work.
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he central dialectic in DBT is the tension between acceptance and change.
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In searching for a means of helping therapists and their clients to experience what she called “radical acceptance”—fully embracing helplessness, terror, losses, and other painful facts of life
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Because she empirically demonstrated that DBT could help challenging and volatile patients, the method rapidly became popular
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he next big development came from Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale, cognitive psychologists in the tradition of Aaron Beck, who were working on treatments for depression in the 1990s
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They came across mindfulness practice through Jon Kabat-Zinn and MBSR
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), which combined elements of an 8-week MBSR course with cognitive therapy interventions designed to help patients gain perspective on their thinking and not identify with their depressive thou
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ghts.
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This standardized, 8-week course couched meditation practices in Western, scientific terms
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“the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, and nonjudgmentally, to the unfolding of experience moment to moment
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Steven Hayes and his colleagues had
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radical philosophical orientation that they called “relational frame theory.”
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which they describe as a psy
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chological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility
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ACT doesn’t teach many formal meditation practices, but uses imagery, metaphor, and brief exercises to cultivate awareness of the present, loosen identification with thought, and increase openness to the experience of moment-to-moment change
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ACT encourages clients to identify and pursue activities that give life meaning.
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Why I love and hate having a smartphone - The Oatmeal - 0 views
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Some people are very gullible. They look up what they want to know the answer to and believe any answer they find first online
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I think there are some ways you can work from home. But you shouldn't always do that. My aunt works from home answering phones for a company . I don't understand how you can answer the calls when your not even there.
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the technology keeps us linked. Way for fashion buyers to see what people are looking for and what they want to buy in the fashion world
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Intimate distances: William James' introspection, Buddhist mindfulness, and experientia... - 0 views
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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
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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,”
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rather than a religion
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To “wake up” existentially involves acting upon four “ennobling” tasks,
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embrace dukkha (suffering, pain or unsatisfactoriness); let go of craving for things
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nvolves caring for oneself and others.
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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.
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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).
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Being mindful can help ease stress - Harvard Health Publications - 1 views
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A healthier approach may be to tune in.
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But paying more attention to what is going on around you, not les
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an excellent technique to help you cope with a range of mental and physical problem
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s, including stress.
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The idea is to focus attention on what is happening now and accepting it without judgment.
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mindfulness is a powerful therapeutic tool
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ease stress, prevent major depression from reappearing, alleviate anxiety, and even reduce physical symptoms such as pain or hot flashes
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like sitting quietly, focusing on your breathing, becoming aware of your surroundings, and watching what comes and goes in your mind
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But if you make the effort to become more mindful, you may find the results to be well worth it.
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The practice of mindfulness, which has its roots in Buddhism, teaches people to be present in each moment
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The practice of mindfulness, which has its roots in Buddhism, teaches people to be present in each moment. The idea is to focus attention on what is happening now and accepting it without judgment.
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This seemingly simple practice is often hard to sustain in a busy world.
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way mindfulness works its magic is by improving connections in the brain.
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I have never like at mindfulness in this way, but it kinda open my eyes how being mindful can help ease stress -
I have never like at mindfulness this way, but i also didn't know being mindful can ease stress.
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How Mindfulness Can Treat Anxiety - Carolyn Tucker MA, NCC, DCC, LAPC's Blog - Decatur-... - 1 views
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From the poor economic climate, to traffic, to tragedy in the news, our culture contributes as well.
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Mindfulness causes you to be fully presen
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Mindfulness is defined as a state of active, open attention on the present
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. When you're mindful, you exist solely in the moment, noticing what is going on right then to the fullest. The practice of acceptance goes along with mindfulness
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In acceptance you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad
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Instead of saying "I am anxious," notice the physical sensation and acknowledge that it is there
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help clients daily learn skills to help them better cope with the effects of anxiety on their mind and bodies.
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Mindfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit.
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Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music.
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Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
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By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself.
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Even as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly. When the mind locates the symptoms of anxiety it sends off a "code red" and all of the symptoms feel exacerbated.
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ven as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly
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When we resist emotions or physical sensations they rear their ugly heads and demand to be noticed. The sheer energy of them increases due to our increase in attempt to squash them down. Our bodies were made to allow all energy, negative and positive to move through them and to be expressed in some way, whether spoken through communication, burned off through exercise or relaxed away. Acceptance allows our bodies to naturally self correct and allow that energy to pass through us without resistance.
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Mindfulness is proven to increase our quality of life by improving our physical health (reducing blood pressure and increasing quality of sleep to name a few benefits) and our mental health (decreased rumination, increased ability to handle daily stress) and out relationships (One study showed that people who practice mindfulness deal with relationship stress more constructively.
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indfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit. You can practice mindfulness in many other ways too. Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music. Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
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By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself
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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.
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spiritual aspects of mindfulness practice has the potential to deepen its benefits
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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.
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potential impact of relational mindfulness on the psychotherapeutic relationship.
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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.
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The emerging concept of “relational mindfulness” focuses attention on the oft-neglected interpersonal aspects of mindfulness practices.
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mindfulness practiced in relationship to other people.
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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.
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ntentional awareness in relationship to another person can have healing benefits.
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Relational mindfulness in particular appears to have potential to be an agent for cultivating enhanced interpersonal harmony
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ttunement of an individual with the self
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leads to an improved ability to attune with others
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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.
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A nice example of how relation mindfulness can influence psychotherapeutic outcomes on how psychoterapists relate and devlope relations between paients.
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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.
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four qualities: transcendence, the sense that an object or experience goes beyond our everyday, usual, or ordinary understanding;
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oundlessness, a sense of vast, unrestricted space and time; ultimacy,
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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.
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relational mindfulness most obviously cultivates the spiritual quality of inter-connectedness, improving our sense of unity with a relationship partner
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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,
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hus, the qualities of spirituality can arise within a mindful relationship such as that cultivated through relational mindfulness practices.
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ART AND MINDFULNESS: Art can shock us into the present moment | The Mindful Word - 0 views
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The right side of the brain is associated with creativity, intuition, visualizing, emotions and daydreaming, among other things. Most of us don’t use it enough because we’re socialized to be logical and rational, thinking in terms of rules, goals, planning and structure. But, we can tap into that creative right brain—art is just one of the many ways of doing so.
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We can utilize our brain through meditation and art expanding our creativity capabilities
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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.
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direct modulation of emotion-generative brain regions without cognitively reappraise emotionally salient stimuli
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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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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
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if mindfulness training is primarily a bottom–up process, MBIs might be effective for patients not responding to traditional psychotherapies.
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cognitive reappraisal, to regulate unpleasant emotions
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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.
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mindfulness
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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
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Binary of this paper: The Western definition of mindfulness vs. the traditional definition of mindfulness
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classical descriptions of mindfulness
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raditional contexts
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raditional descriptions of mindfulness
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asily translated within current Western theoretical frameworks
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mindfulness
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(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
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(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
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Alternatively, both processes could be more or less associated with mindfulness training depending on the emphasis given by specific instructors and traditions.
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