Mindfulness

for cognitive thought and its power over daily lives is astounding. Though over time, a process known as mindfulness has sought to greater expand humans ability to find peace and awareness within the present. Defined as “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one 's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis” mindfulness is the ability to compartmentalize the present and find peace or clarity in the current. Those who can…

Mindfulness and Addiction Addictions are the side effect of a grasping mind. When we try to cling to things beyond or reach or moments in our lives that have passed, it can sometimes lead to negative emotions or trigger unhealthy feelings. Generally, it is when an individual feels excessive helplessness toward situations in his or her life, addictions and other coping mechanisms can form to help deal with the emotions. Unfortunately, in many cases it can be hard to truly see what is causing the…

Mindfulness training (MT) is now a heavily researched practice that is seeing a resurgence in western culture. Mindfulness can broadly be defined as a practice in which a person uses techniques to help train the mind to reduce stress and increase awareness. Researchers Farb, Anderson, Bean, McKeon, Mayberg, and Segal are the first to look at a reduction in the expression of sadness through MT by looking at fMRI images of the brain to locate specific regions that have been associated with sadness…

Mindfulness is the new millennium health hustle. Mindfulness is touted as being a cure all for a variety of health issues such as stress, depression and anxiety. But that is not all mindfulness is touted for, Mindfulness is said to strengthen the immune system, and improve relationships with family and strangers. Yet, there is more, mindfulness is said to change the brain in a positive way, it increases brain matter, make music sound better, make you a better person, help the elderly feel less…

interacted with nature and environment from its early stage up till today, especially focusing on the role of mindfulness. I will analyze ancient Buddhist texts and related writings, scholarly articles about the development of engaged Buddhism, and also modern practices. a) Traditional Buddhist Mindful Meditation and the Environment: Non-harm and interdependence The English word "mindfulness" is translated from the Pali term sati or Sanskrit term smriti (Gethin, 2011), which means remembrance…

article, “Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Obesity-Related Eating Behaviours: A Literature Review,” O’Reilly, Cook, Spruijt-Metz, and Black (2014) provide compelling evidence about the efficacy of mindfulness in regards to eating behaviors associated with obesity; specifically, the use of mindfulness practices for binge eating, emotional eating, and external eating behavior. Of the 21 articles that were reviewed by O’Reilly et al. (2014), 18 found evidence suggesting that mindfulness…

According to reports, contemporary mindfulness began when biologist Jon Kabat-Zinn had an idea spawning from a meditation retreat in the late 1970s. This idea grew into a meditation-based program targeting stress and chronic pain at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was employed at the time. This program became the precursor to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), an eight-week session that includes mindfulness techniques of breathing and walking meditation, drawn…

Mindfulness is the absence of Mindlessness . Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard, advocates this pragmatic definition of mindfulness in her 1995 book “mindfulness”. Based on her research experiments over the last 25 years, she lists three kinds of mindlessness, their causes and costly effects. The kinds of mindlessness she found include (1) trapped by categories, which is when people mindlessly rely on defined categories as opposed to creation of new categories (which Langer in turn…

MINDFULNESS Researchers Zhou, Liu, Niu, Sun, and Fan (2016); Zhang et al. (2016); reported Mindfulness can add quality to life by fostering a feeling of inner peace to increase self-confidence. In additon, some researcher’s study showed a decrease in bullying, increased the student's ability to focus more, especially in ADHD students, reduce attention problems and increase social skills. Mindfulness can be accomplished by the use of pictures, food, and music that help students focus attention at…

Even though research about mindfulness is increasing there still isn’t a lot of information on this issue and most of what I found talks about it in a general way. But fortunately there were some scholarly articles that touched base on this problem in a direct way, so by using them I am going to provide an in depth analysis of the problem, as well as using this review to come up with questions or hypothesis that will later on serve as way of giving out suggestions for the improvement of the…