Mindfulness
There are both internal and external factors that affect mindfulness. Interpersonal variations refer to the internal differences in people and how they vary in likelihood. Intrapersonal variations refers to the external and environmental factors that affect mindfulness in part, due to the fact that it can be either enhanced or lessened by external experiences and stimuli. Both interpersonal and intrapersonal variations in mindfulness can affect psychological well-being (Brown, 2003).
Mindfulness predicts many interpersonal factors, including relationship satisfaction, the ability to respond in a positive manner to relationship stress, skill in communicating emotions to one’s partner, and amount of relationship conflict and negativity. …show more content…
The goal of many of these treatments is to engage clients in the current moment. One of the main obstacles many clients face when trying to reduce their anxiety levels is to reduce their own chronic worry about the future or ruminations of regret from the past (Bishop et al., 2004). When individuals are not able to be present in the moment then it is very difficult for the client to ever truly heighten their awareness to the origins of the causes of their problems. Cognitive decentering occurs when an individual does not analyze their thoughts and instead accepts them as reality without introspection (Fresco et al., 2007). For example, if a student thinks that they will fail an exam because they are not as intelligent as their classmates, and they accept this as fact without analyzing whether the thought is true or not then this essentially becomes their reality. This concept involves being able to entertain a thought without accepting it automatically as true. Cognitive decentering allows a person to differentiate between their thoughts and their …show more content…
One practice used in the treatment of general anxiety disorder is mindfulness based-stress reduction (MBSR; Kubat-Zinn, 1990). The MBSR is a program completed over the span of eight weeks. It involves one day of relaxed training where the participants are taught in a non-intrusive way to complete several of the practices used in the therapy including Hatha yoga, breath-awareness and body scanning. The remainder of the eight interventions are then completed by using audio tapes to guide the participants in daily practice in their homes. This technique has been very effective in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Hoge et al. (2014) used the MSBR to demonstrate that the constructs of mindfulness and decentering are distinct from one another, they are both crucial to performing successful generalized anxiety therapy, and that mindfulness appears to be the construct that most reduces anxiety, while decentering appears to have a much more substantial effect on decreasing worry (Hoge et al., 2014). These interventions can be helpful in managing one’s day-to-day
There are both internal and external factors that affect mindfulness. Interpersonal variations refer to the internal differences in people and how they vary in likelihood. Intrapersonal variations refers to the external and environmental factors that affect mindfulness in part, due to the fact that it can be either enhanced or lessened by external experiences and stimuli. Both interpersonal and intrapersonal variations in mindfulness can affect psychological well-being (Brown, 2003).
Mindfulness predicts many interpersonal factors, including relationship satisfaction, the ability to respond in a positive manner to relationship stress, skill in communicating emotions to one’s partner, and amount of relationship conflict and negativity. …show more content…
The goal of many of these treatments is to engage clients in the current moment. One of the main obstacles many clients face when trying to reduce their anxiety levels is to reduce their own chronic worry about the future or ruminations of regret from the past (Bishop et al., 2004). When individuals are not able to be present in the moment then it is very difficult for the client to ever truly heighten their awareness to the origins of the causes of their problems. Cognitive decentering occurs when an individual does not analyze their thoughts and instead accepts them as reality without introspection (Fresco et al., 2007). For example, if a student thinks that they will fail an exam because they are not as intelligent as their classmates, and they accept this as fact without analyzing whether the thought is true or not then this essentially becomes their reality. This concept involves being able to entertain a thought without accepting it automatically as true. Cognitive decentering allows a person to differentiate between their thoughts and their …show more content…
One practice used in the treatment of general anxiety disorder is mindfulness based-stress reduction (MBSR; Kubat-Zinn, 1990). The MBSR is a program completed over the span of eight weeks. It involves one day of relaxed training where the participants are taught in a non-intrusive way to complete several of the practices used in the therapy including Hatha yoga, breath-awareness and body scanning. The remainder of the eight interventions are then completed by using audio tapes to guide the participants in daily practice in their homes. This technique has been very effective in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Hoge et al. (2014) used the MSBR to demonstrate that the constructs of mindfulness and decentering are distinct from one another, they are both crucial to performing successful generalized anxiety therapy, and that mindfulness appears to be the construct that most reduces anxiety, while decentering appears to have a much more substantial effect on decreasing worry (Hoge et al., 2014). These interventions can be helpful in managing one’s day-to-day