Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Drug Addiction Treatment An individual with substance abuse issues tends to live in the past and dwell on the "woulda, shoulda, coulda," focus on ways to alter their mood, function on auto-pilot, and be driven by emotions without analysis of the consequences. Mindfulness is a viable strategy that will prioritize and help the individual to focus on the present. Mindfulness can assist with decreasing mood dependent behaviors by increasing awareness of thoughts and acceptance…

further because mindfulness is the solution for you!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!! I think we should keep at least two of the points because it may not make sense if we cut it out ^^ e.g. keep: do you want to cope with stress or slow down your thoughts?…

control trial to explore “the impact of mindfulness training for nursing staff on their levels of mindfulness, compassion satisfaction, burnout, and stress” (Honore, Pierce. Eure & Woodbridge, 2014, p.198). This study also gave a consideration to the impact of mindfulness on patient satisfaction. From the above level of evidence scale, this is a level III of the hierarchy. Validity. In this pilot study, a volunteered nursing unit, participated in mindfulness training and another uncontrolled…

Cultural Mindfulness by Erica Switzer Culture is the shared ideas, ideals, and artifacts of a people that are created and sustained for mutual survival and the perpetuation of the way of life. Today, many tend to think constantly of a "world culture," without really analyzing whether there truly is a "culture" that is common to the entire world of nations and heritage. Many questions and concerns arise as to whether there really is a "world culture" and to what extent our "mindfulness" allows…

because perfection isnt possible but transformation is all we needed to change,to learn,to grow no matter what our circumstances. She had been studied about how people change,and how people transform and the most effective one vehicles she found was mindfulness. She told that she had been surgery and it took a metal rod to put in her spine. After couple of month she spent to rehabilitation and it didnt work,she decided to go to thailand and to try meditate there. The meditation tool place at…

In clinical settings, mindfulness can be seen as a coping resource to deal with the different types of illness and stress. Reviews of the empirical literature have summarized that participation in MBSR provides significant psychosocial benefits for a variety of populations, including patients with cancer and other chronic diseases (Bohlmeijer, Prenger, Taal, & Cuijpers, 2010) people with anxiety and depression (Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010) and health care professionals subject to…

Types of Mindfulness Techniques Used There are several different types of mindfulness techniques taught in mindfulness training programs (e.g. meditation, attention awareness exercises, breathing exercises, and body scanning), (Shonin, Van Gordon, & Griffiths, 2014). In the last decade, business settings have developed mindfulness programs to boost productivity, decrease stress, and improve overall well-being of their employees (Chen, 2015). The cultivation of mindfulness has roots in Buddhism,…

Effectiveness of the Mindfulness in Schools Programme: non-randomised controlled feasibility study (Kuyken , 2013)  Cause: using mindfulness-based approaches with adolescent is uncommon Adolescence is important formative developmental stages for well-being and mental health. There is abundant and growing evidence for mindfulness-based approaches for adult with chronic physical and mental health problem. Nevertheless, the approaches of mindfulness for adolescent are preliminary, but…

Measurements, and Variables There is a wide array of different mindfulness based treatments that have been researched for binge eating:  Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)  Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction(MBSR)  Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT)  Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy There are also three different types of meditation – concentration techniques, mindfulness, and guided meditation20. Most studies use…

Mindfulness requires one to pay attention in a particular way, deliberately and non-judgmentally, to the present moment. Mindfulness has been applied to many different conditions such as, stress reduction, chronic pain, cancer, parenting, childbirth and anxiety, etc. While this technique is useful for many conditions the primary intention of applying mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treatment is to teach clients mindfulness-based approaches for depression. Depression is considered to be a…