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Emily Vargas

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  • regular practice of yoga can lead to significant improvements in sleep for people who have undergone cancer treatment.
  • Research indicates that people coping with cancer are at significantly higher risk for sleep disorders than the general population
  • Poor sleep and disrupted circadian rhythms are also associated with hormone dysregulation and immune system dysfunctio
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  • including physical pain or discomfort that interferes with falling asleep or staying asleep, side effects from medications and treatments, as well as stress and anxiety
  • Researchers divided the participants into 2 groups, both of which followed the same standard post-treatment care plan. In addition, one group also participated in a 4-week yoga program, consisting of 2 75-minute sessions each week. The yoga regimen included physical postures as well as meditation, breathing and relaxation exercises
  • Yoga also helped to reduce patients’ reliance on prescription sleep medication.
  • 410 patients with cancer, all of whom had undergone one or more types of treatment—including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy—within the past 24 months. Most of the participants (96%) were women, with an average age of 54, and 75% of participants had breast cancer. All were suffering from at least moderate levels of sleep problems.
  • While short-term use of sleep medication may be useful, it’s critical to identify strategies for improving sleep that don’t rely on long-term use of sleep medicines
  • , researchers measured sleep for both groups using questionnaires and wrist sensors worn during the night. They found both groups had improved their sleep during the 4-week period. However, the yoga group experienced significantly greater improvements to sleep compared to the non-yoga group:
  • The yoga group saw their average sleep quality score improve from 9.2 at the beginning of the study to 7.2 at the end. The non-yoga group’s average score improved to a lesser degree, from 9.0 to 7.9.
  • The yoga group experienced more significant improvements to daytime tiredness than the non-yoga group.
  • The yoga group reduced their use of sleep medication by 21% per week during the course of the study. The non-yoga group, on the other hand, increased their sleep medication use by 5% per week.
  • that the group practicing yoga improved their sleep while also reducing their reliance on sleep medication
  • CDC’s first-ever investigation of prescription sleep medication that reliance on prescription sleep aids is alarmingly high, with 4% of the adult population of the U.S. taking medication to sleep
  • After 3 months, patients who did yoga reported significant decreases in sleep disturbances, increased sleep duration, and less reliance on sleep medication, compared to a group that did not participate in the yoga regimen.
  • A group of patients with a variety of cancers experienced improvements to sleep and decreases to levels of stress and fatigue after an 8-week program of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). MBSR includes meditation practices designed to address both physical and psychological difficulties.
Emily Vargas

Mindfulness Therapy Could Indirectly Reduce Alcohol Cravings - 0 views

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  • One of the primary associations that these two domains have is their relationship with self-consciousness (SC).
  • Individuals with depression often have high levels of SC and people with alcohol addiction often have affect and mood issues such as depression.
  • For individuals with depression, negative mood states and negative self-appraisals can trigger cravings and, thus, increase the risk of relapse
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  • When someone tries to abstain from alcohol, they can experience significant cravings.
  • Belgium recently led a study to explore the relationship between SC and craving in a sample of 30 individuals undergoing alcohol detoxification
  • Because SC is found to be relatively high in those with depression, understanding the effect of this trait on craving could help clinicians treating those with alcohol use issues.
  • The participants were assessed for depression, SC, and cravings at the beginning of treatment and again at days 14 through 18. The results revealed that craving and depression both decreased significantly from day 1 to day 18
  • Timary discovered that the individuals with severe depression and elevated SC scores at treatment initiation had the highest level of cravings, depression, and SC at the end of the study perio
  • This suggests that the more self-conscious someone is, the more this trait can impact depression and, subsequently, cravings.
  • greater success if they employ mindfulness-based and metacognitive therapies that focus on developing nonreactive, nonjudgmental acceptance behaviors that could minimize SC and depression.
  • “Our results suggest that metacognitive approaches targeting SC could decrease craving and, in turn, prevent future relapses.
Emily Vargas

Number of Depressive Episodes Linked to Mindfulness Outcomes - 0 views

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  • negative affect, cognitive disturbances, rumination, and worry
  • MBCT teaches individuals how to be objective in their appraisal of emotions
  • affect had a significant effect MBCT outcomes and also on depressive symptoms and worry.
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  • Batnik also noticed a difference in how these processes interacted when he compared participants with a history of fewer than two MDD episodes to those with three or more prior episodes.
  • For the participants with fewer than two episodes, cognitive changes had more impact on MBCT outcomes and changes in symptoms than affective changes
  • in the group with more than three prior episodes, affect changes had the greatest impact on symptom reduction via MBCT
  • “Further research is necessary to confirm these hypotheses and examine underlying mechanisms for different populations and for individuals at different stages of the illness.”
Brian Walsh

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life - Jon Kabat-Zin... - 0 views

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      Brian Walsh on 04 Oct 13
       
      I decided to use Kabat-Zinn as one of my scholarly sources, and the pdf won't allow me to write on it, so I will write on this page
Alyssa Lau

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

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      Alyssa Lau on 07 Oct 13
       
      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.
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      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.
Alyssa Lau

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
  • approached as a therapy, to be studied and evaluated using established scientific methods, rather than as a religion
  • ‘Psychology
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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).
aldi gjoka

How to 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish:" Fixing Steve Jobs Commencement Advice - Forbes - 0 views

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      inspirational and really pushes one to do good every day
aldi gjoka

Flynn Coleman: Mindfulness: An Ancient Skill for Thriving in the Modern Innovation Economy - 0 views

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      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      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 
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      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      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 
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      implying that mindfulness stimulates creativity and leading to innovation
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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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      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      an anomaly, saying that all you have to do is pay attention, that it is just that simple and just that difficult. 
  • this technique is as old as time
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      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      he emphasizes trust and connecting the dots, similar to the relationship between mindfulness and creativity
  • Slowing down, taking a step back, and even napping and mind-wandering, interspersed with diligent focus, are all part of creative mindfulness.
  • "Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Alyssa Lau

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  • The new centers often were staffed by Western teachers,
  • many of whom had first encountered meditation in the Peace Corps and later trained in monastic settings in the East
  • Creating a new wisdom tradition
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  • None of us wanted ou
  • supervisors or clinical teammates to think of us as having unresolved infantile longings to return to a state of oceanic oneness
  • 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
  • mindfulness meditation was making inroads into the medical community.
  • 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.
  • MBSR was used primarily to augment the treatment of stress-related medical disorders, and was of particular interest to clinicians working in behavioral medicine.
  • 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.
  • he central dialectic in DBT is the tension between acceptance and change.
  • 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
  • Because she empirically demonstrated that DBT could help challenging and volatile patients, the method rapidly became popular
  • 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
  • They came across mindfulness practice through Jon Kabat-Zinn and MBSR
  • 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
  • ghts.
  • This standardized, 8-week course couched meditation practices in Western, scientific terms
  • “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, and nonjudgmentally, to the unfolding of experience moment to moment
  • Steven Hayes and his colleagues had
  • radical philosophical orientation that they called “relational frame theory.”
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which they describe as a psy
  • chological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility
  • 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
  • ACT encourages clients to identify and pursue activities that give life meaning.
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