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Mindfulness in Life and Leadership: An Exploratory Survey - ProQuest - 0 views

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      Paul Brahan on 03 Oct 13
       
      Good source from the Syracuse Library Database about mindfulness in Life and Leadership
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4. Understanding Mindfulness « CriticalStress.com - 1 views

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    Do we really have control of our minds without mindfulness???
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8 Basic Characteristics of Mindfulness | Mindfulness Muse - 0 views

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    what a person needs to understand when accepting to accept mindfulness into their lives
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Prudential - Bring Your Challenges - YouTube - 0 views

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      Lexy Martin on 03 Oct 13
       
      mindfulness brings us patience... no matter what age we are.  G- what wasn't talked about was how the kids that didn't eat the marshmallows restrained themselves from eating, this was the mind set that the kids had (they had a goal and intended to work for it, training their minds) R- repetitions between the different kids, each were given the same circumstances over and over A- the question about what the parents would do didn't seem to fit because the kids were the ones being tested for their mindfulness control B- the opposing idea is eating the marshmallow right away, uncontrolled mindfulness, or the debate to eat the marshmallow because a kid became too impatient 
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SheerMind Mindfulness Training - Mindfulness in the military - a soldier's approach - 0 views

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      Brittany Washburn on 02 Oct 13
       
      Very different perspective of mindfulness. than the article the dark side of mindfulness.
    • Brittany Washburn
      Brittany Washburn on 02 Oct 13
       
      The author is a soldier. He knows what stress really is and how important it is to be completely in the moment. He writes with passion and extreme experience
    • Brittany Washburn
      Brittany Washburn on 02 Oct 13
       
      Having a plan drilled into your head seems to be repeated throughout the piece. You need a plan and you need to practice that plan
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      Brittany Washburn on 02 Oct 13
       
      He also really drills the point that we need to slow things down and that we always have more time then it seems when we are stressed
    • Brittany Washburn
      Brittany Washburn on 02 Oct 13
       
      Wow that is so true everybody who lives owes a death
  • Thing is, and as morbid as this will sound: what’s the worst that could happen? May die. Yeah, its not like I was getting out of this life alive anyway
    • Brittany Washburn
      Brittany Washburn on 02 Oct 13
       
      He is writing this article to the general public. explaining that there is really nothing to be stressed about. We are iin the environment of our choosing.
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JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

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      psychological benefits associated with exercise
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Ethical Considerations About Spirituality in Social Work: Insights From a National Qual... - 0 views

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  • 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
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Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy - 0 views

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  • clients with various medical ailments, including hypertension, chronic pain, and cancer
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13
       
      This may be good for medical based social workers to help with clients who are experiencing medical issues that are causing anxiety and depression
  • Clients gain an ability to realign themselves away from their thoughts and feelings and focus instead on the occurring changes in their body and mind through yoga, breathing, and meditation.
  • This insight affords the client the opportunity to heal themselves by interjecting positive thoughts and responses to the moods in order to disarm them.
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  • Participants are armed with knowledge regarding depression as an illness, and are given additional tools to combat their depressive symptoms as they arise
  • order to facilitate a complete and rapid progression to healing.
  • Clients who use this technique will often be able to revert to these methods in times of distress or when they are faced with situations that cause them to lose their sense of separation from their thoughts.
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13
       
      You can work with clients in understanding how to use these techniques when they are feeling to anxious.
  • Training programs encompass a variety of activities, including role playing, lectures, yoga, meditation, group classes and sustained periods of silence.
  • . In addition, this method works equally as well to relieve the symptoms of various psychological issues including anxiety and panic.
  • The original platform was designed to address the needs of people who suffered from multiple events of depression
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Antisocial Social Worker: Mindfulness and Social Work - 0 views

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  • In those retreats, the majority of the meditation was the kind where you simply sit there and come back to the breath if you stray
  • my senses would be sharpened and I would feel very peaceful.
  • Working with highly anxious children back then, I was able to utilize many of the techniques that I knew, as well as some of the ones that I was taught.
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  • our eye is always on the future. We are filled with wants and desires that we do not need, but that consume our time and money. As well, so much of our emotions are wrapped up in this future orientation. By using mindfulness, we are able to come back to the present and just be in the moment.
  • I will be working with some groups, and in at least one of them, we will be using mindfulness
  • I also know how much mindfulness can help the people that use it.
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Mindfulness helps against anxiety and depression | ScienceNordic - 0 views

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  • oung adults with social phobia and anxiety,
  • Patients with social anxiety disorder benefit as much from a mindfulness programme as patie
  • nts who receive regular cognitive treatment
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  • The risk of relapse in people with recurrent major depressive disorder is significantly lower Cancer patients reduced their anxiety and depressive symptoms
  • women who in glossy magazines tell of how they achieved self-control and success because they practice mindfulness and are able to be attentive and live in the present.
  • Here, a group of young people with social anxiety was divided into two random groups. One group received regular cognitive behavioural therapy in which the participants were taught to overcome their anxiety by confronting it. The other group was treated with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
  • British health authorities now recommend using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the prevention of relapse in recurrent depression.
  • was a meta-study of six randomised clinical trials of 593 people who had been affected by one or more depressive episodes.
  • A patient who has suffered from a single depressive episode has a 60-percent chance of relapse. With two depressive episodes, the risk of relapse increases to 70 percent, and with three episodes, the risk goes up to 90 percent
  • systematic mindfulness training can significantly reduce this risk of relapse
  • For those hit by one depressive episode, the risk of relapse is reduced by 34 percent, and with three episodes, the risk is reduced by 43 percent.
  • This indicates that mindfulness is a serious alternative to confrontational therapy in which patients for instance overcome their fear of spiders by having them walk on their hands.
  • which studied the effect of mindfulness on cancer patients, who often become anxious and depressed – even after the cancer treatment is actually completed.
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Cancer, anxiety and mindfulness | Telling Knots - 0 views

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  • the anxiety tends to persist and may even become worse
  • I recently wrote about the things I do to (attain and) maintain mental health, and in an earlier post I wrote about my choice to live intentionally, to live an examined life:
  • It only requires pausing in your day, or even in your week or month, to be aware of your interior and exterior worlds.
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  • What am I doing? Is it what I want to be doing? Is there a change I’d like to see? Can I bring it about? What path am I on; is it likely to bring me to where I want to go?
  • By interior world I mean thoughts, feelings, wishes, desires, discomfort, contentment, hopes, satisfaction, anger, delight… a kind of mindfulne
  • I was very interested to see that my intuition about using mindfulness to cope with stress and anxiety was borne out in a small Danish study that was published this past April
  • The women participating in the study had been diagnosed with breast cancer at Stage I, II or III and had undergone surgery
  • In any case, the statistical results are far less important to me than my lived experience: mindfulness exercises and meditation and living an examined life help me to cope better with stress and anxiety, and that is all the proof I need
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17 Ways Mindfulness Meditation Can Cause You Emotional Harm - 4 views

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  • “nonjudgmental” process, but what happens most of the time — judgment of negative emotions
  • When you really don’t judge a negative emotion, you let it run its natural course — without trying to step in and control the situation through cultivated mental discipline.
  • Many use it to avoid having to feel emotional pain. But of course they won’t tell you that.
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  • Who’s to say if you should experience “unwanted” thoughts and emotions” as you start to become aware of them? That’s your call. (We do emotion regulation all the time.) But it’s not the issue; it’s the deception.
  • Getting in touch with your true nature, de-stressing, and being happy are all possible without suppressing negative emotions.
  • Of course you’ll temporarily feel better if you don’t have to face your unwanted thoughts and emotions
  • But you’ll have to meditate again to get that high
  • You start to judge uncomfortable thoughts and feelings as inferior, unreal, or bad.
  • ou get good at stuffing anger and other negative emotions
  • If and when a traumatic or emotionally painful experience occurs, you don’t fully process it, and cut your grieving process dangerously short.
  • You expect meditation to fix your problems for you, resolve your relationship conflicts, and make you happy
  • xpecting that meditation will get rid of the negative emotions
  • You detach from your partner or loved one when they’re upset or experiencing an emotion you see as undesirable
  • Because you’ve trained yourself to avoid them
  • You struggle to empathize with others, or understand their pain. If you don’t feel your own pain — you can’t expect to have compassion for another’s pain.
  • You lose your ability to naturally feel upset, sad, or concerned when there’s an issue in your life that you need to address
  • Your ability to feel positive emotions is also affecte
  • d. Because you don’t allow experience of the negative.
  • You start to feel dissatisfied with your life, and alone
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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."
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Yoga: Social work as Awareness:Mindfulness | What is a Social Worker? - 1 views

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  • the more I am coming to realize that the qualities social workers embody are the same qualities that are required in yoga practice
  • Noting this, yoga appears to originate from the idea that yoga is a state of mind before it is a physical gesture.
  • A state of mind that is calm, mindful, accepting, non-judging and intentional.
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  • Are these not the same qualities to those that social workers and helping professionals exemplify and humanize?
  • We side with clients and teach them to come back to themselves, to regulate, to be mindful, to act with intention, to breath.
  • Social workers help clients to develop coping skills that ground them back into the reality of their perceived threat
  • We do this kindly, without judgment, and we ask them to do the same towards themselves.
  • Be mindful – follow the breath – feel your body and where it is heavy and where it is open. Experience the moments and watch them pass by. If you find a thought that doesn’t serve, just let it go. Watch your thoughts go by. Choose the thought that best serves you and let the other ones go.”
  • This idea brings us one step closer to knowing we can choose which thoughts to act upon
  • . It is the silence between the thoughts that is considered to awareness in yoga,
  • In work with clients it is important to get them to recognize that it is not their behavior but the thought guiding their behavior that needs attention
  • Just as in social work practice, yoga is first a state of mind
  • Social workers empower clients in an effort to help them learn to be mindful and aware so they can fold into themselves and introspect to find insights and create change
  • A state of mind that is calm, mindful, accepting, non-judging and intentional.
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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'
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Creating Passionate Users: Your brain on multitasking - 1 views

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  • Our brains can't do even two independent things that require conscious thought, especially if those two things involve different goals.
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      This article emphasizes the practice of mindfulness and full attention on one thing at a time as apposed to multitasking because your brain cannot process two things at once, especially if they are two different goals. 
  • the problem... the brain isn't a computer, and in many cases the brain works much more slowly than a modern processor.
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  • Practicing mindfulness is like adding more hours to your day. If you're mindful, time slows down. You get more done, enjoy things more, and feel less stress. These are big claims, but anyone who's practiced mindful meditation or, like me, mindfulness-hold-the-meditation-thanks, will swear it's true.
  • But imagine what it would be like if every time you
  • gave that person all your attention.
  • 100% mindful, totally there, perfect eye contact, YOU.
  • If you want to get more done, be mindful. If you want to have more time, be mindful. Mindful means one thing at a time.
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  • Use links page as possible starting point for 30 links; 10 can be borrowed from this list; 20 have to be culled using your own research and fueled (hopefully) by your curiosity; use Diigo to bookmark, comment and tag at least 10 sites for Project 2 by today
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What is mindfulness - Living Well - Mental wellbeing for men - 0 views

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  • Mindfulness exercises have been shown to help people stay on course and to better manage difficult thoughts, feelings and experiences.
  • When you are mindful, you are better able to take in information from your environment and choose an appropriate response, rather than reacting based from a history of bad experiences and old habits.
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Between Here and Home: Fishing for mindfulness in the stream of time - 0 views

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  • “TIME is but the stream I go fishing in”.
  • With acceptance comes a sense of wonder; each warm day passing to the timeless thrum of cicadas rather than the ticking of the clock.
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