Mindful Listening

This source helps provide an idea of how mindfulness will play a role in our healthcare today and the future. I want to use this source for that specific reason and to show its role in my own chosen profession of a physician. The article discusses many costs saving measures when mindfulness is applied and there is a potential of billions to be saved.

When I think of mindfulness I contemplate of ones empathetic to interpret a situation. For two weeks every night before I went to bed, I wrote down three items I was grateful for. Some of the words were “Health”,” Family”,” Friends”,” Food”, and” Childhood”. This list goes on, what I grasped is whatever I did that day predisposed what I wrote down. On days I lifted I would appreciate my health, when I went away with my family I recognized how much I appreciated my family, when I was home for a day I realized how much I adored my bed. The new custom I obtained made me appreciate how indebted I am in my life to points I didn’t fathom before. This taught me to feel empathy for people who can’t say the same good things as me which gave me very good insight on to be grateful for the life I have.

Based on the evidence, mindfulness could be expanded to be included in teaching individuals not only intrapersonal skills but also the

Murphy, M. (2006). Taming the anxious mind: An 8-week mindfulness meditation group at a university counseling center. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 21, 5-13.

First, mindful listening is important in communication just hearing what someone says is not enough we need to listen to who were are communicating with and give them our full attention. “To listen well, we rely on our ears, minds, and hearts” (Wood, 2016, p. 163). I have a problem with selective listening and I have worked on this to become a better listener throughout class with my family.

Effective mindfulness meditation requires training and practice and it has distinct measurable effects on our subjective experiences, our behavior, and our brain

Teaching mindfulness might be thought to be simple, but in real sense it’s actually not easy to do effectively because one must first

Mindfulness is an incredible skill, it is a practice that is taking the world by storm and helping more and more people live in their present.

Some may say, in regards to worrying, is to practice the art of not worrying or take control of your feelings. Unfortunately, this notion is better said than done. Emotions can not be practiced nor can they be easily controlled. Emotions are like currents in a body of water. Each drifting through one’s conscience at their own pace and direction undisturbed by what may be in their way. However, worry is not like other emotions. Worry is more similar to oil. Worry masks the beauty and the pureness of all other emotions. Until, the only emotion one feels is

In the article of The Skill of Mindful listening, Hennessey teaches us the difficulties of effective communications in today’s society. His first focus in the article was based around how we are almost disconnected from one another and the outside world. How sometimes it can seem challenging for people to communicate with one another because we feel that we must compete with the others phone first. Hennessey reminds us that being mindful is not only just being open minded of what the other person is saying, but to also be giving our full attention to them. Listening is a mind and a body skill; that listening involves all of our senses and gives information to both parties. Hennessey also reminds us to not be judgemental when it come to listening to another person and that you need to be patient and listen to the full story before you engage in judging. As I read more and more from Hennessey about

When mindfulness is reached, then the person can accept what they are experiencing and progress through the present moment of anxiety.

Dating all the way back to ancient Buddhist and Yogi practices, Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBT) has been implemented to treat anxiety and mood based disorders (Hofmann, 2010). Mindfulness is a process that leads a specific mental state where there is a nonjudgmental awareness of what is going inside and outside of the person who is having the experience (Hofmann, 2010). Anxiety is a mental disorder that keeps a person in a constant state of worry, nervousness, and unease. This disorder can cause many disruptions in a person’s life like being unable to properly communication with another person. Alternatively, anxiety can be as extreme as being afraid to leave the house for months at a time. The purpose of this study would be to create a theory

Lissa Balisson came into class to discuss the significance of mindfulness. She described mindfulness as being in tune with yourself, but most importantly being in the present. One of the benefits being presently mindful and aware was to lessen the likelihood of being turbulent and agitated throughout the day. Often, we do things without thinking much about it, and we lose appreciation of the experience.

Many people think that mindfulness meditation consists solely of sitting still and thinking about nothing for twenty or thirty minutes and are put off by the thought. In fact, mindfulness

In this paper, I will describe my initial thoughts about the practice of mindfulness and my development regarding practicing it. Furthermore, I will explore the idea of being a mindful therapist and how I am hoping to apply this with patients in the future.