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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition - Zindel V. Segal, J... - 0 views

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  They thought that the mindfulness approach was very new and that it could help with the long term rehabilitation from depression rather than previous methods working on current depression episodes
  
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  Another way people think of mindfulness is staying present. One practice stated here is to be aware of your posture and the "sensations in your body in this moment."
  
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JSTOR: Public Health Reports (1974-), Vol. 100, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1985), pp. 158-171 - 0 views

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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?
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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.
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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)
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  Good source from the Syracuse Library Database about mindfulness in Life and Leadership
  
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Do we really have control of our minds without mindfulness???

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  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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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy has been developed with the aim of reducing relapse and recurrence for those who are vulnerable to episodes of depression.
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the risk of relapse and recurrence in those who have been depressed is very high, and the amount of triggering required for each subsequent episode becomes lower each time depressio
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Research by Zindel Segal (Toronto), Mark Williams (Wales) and John Teasdale (Cambridge) has been investigating how meditation may help people stay well after recovery from depression.
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negative mood occurs alongside negative thinking and bodily sensations of sluggishness and fatigue.
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The discovery that, even when people feel well, the link between negative moods and negative thoughts remains ready to be re-activated, is of enormous importance
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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy includes simple breathing meditations and yoga stretches to help participants become more aware of the present moment, including getting in touch with moment-to-moment changes in the mind and the body.
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and by listening to tapes at home during the week, class participants learn the practice of mindfulness meditation
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It helps break the link between negative mood and the negative thinking that it would normally have trigger
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Participants develop the capacity to allow distressing mood, thoughts and sensations to come and go, without having to battle with them
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(MBCT) is quickly gaining more popularity in treatment of various disorders including depression
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improve one’s well-being, mindfulness, emotional regulation, positive mood, and spiritual experience while reducing stress, anxiety, and other problem
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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.
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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.
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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.
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mindfulness can be defined as paying attention in a particular way on purpose in a present moment and non-judgmentally.
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People who are depressed, often have lots of negative popping thoughts about their past
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A combination of mindfulness based stress reduction and cognitive therapy has been shown to be very effective for treatment of depression.
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MBCT was originally developed as a relapse prevention program to help people stay free of depression once they have fully recovered fr
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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
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Previous studies have found that mindfulness meditation can cut the recurrence of depression by 50%, and neuroimaging scans have shown significant positive change in brain activity of long-term meditators
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says that when we are depressed, attention is "consumed by negative preoccupations, thoughts and worries".
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Letting go of thought felt as impossible as tearing off a limb; particularly when the leg and back pains started from sitting cross-legged.
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Psychologists from the University of Exeter recently published a study into "mindfulness-based cognitive therapy" (MBCT)
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three quarters of the patients felt well enough to stop taking antidepressants
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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.
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Professor Williams is also the author of Mindfulness: An Eight Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World.
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Concentrating on the rhythm of the breath helps produce a feeling of detachmen
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, 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
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can be very helpful in improving the cognitive symptoms of depression.
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Cognitive symptoms can impair all areas of a person’s life. For instance, poor concentratio
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Focusing on the here and now helps individuals become aware of their negative thoughts, acknowledge them without judgment and realize they’re not accurate reflections of reality, writes author William Marchand, M.D.
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Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Your Guide to Recovery
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psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments.
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individuals start to see their thoughts as less powerfu
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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
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It’s based on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
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a program developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. MBSR includes mindfulness tools, such as meditation, a body scan and hatha yoga, along with education about stress and assertiveness, according to Marchand.
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MBCT teaches individuals to detach from distorted and negative thinking patterns, which can trigger the return of depression.
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Getting professional treatment for depression is vital. But there are complementary mindfulness practices readers can try on their own
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is essentially training one’s attention to maintain focus and avoid mind wandering
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10 to 15 minutes to meditate on most days.
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Whether you’re eating, showering or getting dressed, you can practice mindfulness while doing any activity, according to Marchand, also a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine
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Another option is to take a mindful walk, which also is helpful because it includes exercise, “an important component of healing.”
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Mindfulness is a valuable practice for improving the cognitive symptoms of depression, such as distorted thinking and distractibility
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realize that thoughts are not facts and refocus their attention to the present.
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