Mindfulness

Mindfulness Training: Yoga I heard of yoga before and I know it is a form of exercise, many people from around the world do yoga, and the exercise seems very popular. I am not the person to exercise too much, I may do some work outs every now and then, but I hardly work out like I know I should. Since I have to do yoga for my class assignment, it is not all that bad, because I have wanted to exercise more, but I never took out time in my day to start it. I feel this will be good for me,…

The Positive Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Stress Recently, many college students in Dubai have been reaping the benefits of meditation as a means to reduce stress and anxiety. Through a 10-week program called the Home Alone Sessions, students are introduced to the principles of mindfulness meditation to help them cope with stress from the academic and social challenges that college entails. By practicing mindfulness meditation, it “allows the pupils, even for just a few minutes, to…

Mindfulness foster compassion Quoting Buddha “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” Mindfulness is different, it focuses on awareness, it fosters compassion towards our own self. Well, one may ask what does compassion has to do with physiological issue? Well, let me explain. Let’s say there are two kind of people. First, the ones who often keep doubting himself, being hard on whatever he does, potentially doubting every action and emotions. Where else, there…

Mindfulness is known as a “practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one 's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis”(Merriam-Webster). Mindfulness has a multitude of positive effects to the students and teachers and according to Mindfulness in Schools, “... education and health are closely linked. Promoting the health and well-being of teachers and students within schools has the potential to improve teaching and learning and…

This is a summary of the article “Attachment Theory and Mindfulness” by Rose Snyder, Shauna Shapiro, and David Treleaven in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. In the article, Snyder et al. (2012) begins by providing a brief introduction on two fundamental psychology areas: attachment theory and mindfulness. The authors detail on the significance of early parent-infant relationship on children’s development. For instance, the sources and effects of stress that come with parenting can enter…

The Benefits Of Using Mindfulness In Addiction Treatment The crushing difficulties that life often throws at us make drugs and alcohol an attractive coping tool for many people. Unfortunately, these substances do nothing to truly fix the problems of your life and create their own severe issues. Fixing your life's problems, including your addiction, requires addressing them in an honest and open way. The best way to achieve that sense of honesty is by practicing mindfulness. People who learn how…

Methodology: In this qualitative study we, further our understanding of how teachers perceive mindfulness practices to affect their students by conducting a modified case study. Traditionally case study involves gathering an assortment of forms of information and using these to triangulate theme (Creswell, 2015). However, our access was limited, causing us to modify the case study design to use only phone conversations with our teachers. As these educators were from the same elementary school,…

Thesis: The benefits of mindfulness/somatic practice, such as meditation, yoga, Qigong/Tai chi, and Dance and Movement Therapy on University of Rochester student population, particularly around Seasonal Affected Disorder syndrome. Intro: University of Rochester is one of the R1 schools with high research activity and rigorous curriculum. Most of R1 school students are exposed to pressures of high expectation of achievement from the school. Undergraduate students in the University of…

Mindfulness Mindfulness and meditation are an ancient practice that has been present through centuries in most if not all cultures and faiths to help to achieve peace and happiness. Although this diversity in origins and applications has enriched this field, it also resulted in intersections and differences that ended in a lot of confusion and misconceptions. Furthermore, it was used by some practitioners in a mysterious questionable ways, taking the truthfulness and purity of the practice and…

Mental toughness and mindfulness are two interesting topics, which psychologists continue to research and try and endeavor more evidence about it, and how they are related then affect sporting performance, or more general, performance in real life situations. To date, many researches and scientists are still trying to look beyond the obstacles of different aspects and their abilities to justify if mental toughness and mindfulness are related, and if so how do they affect the performance of a…