Mindfulness Exercise Analysis

In the article “Instead of detention, these students get meditation”, Deborah Bloom of CNN.com writes about the Mindful Moment Room and its effects on students that attend Robert W. Coleman Elementary School. The Mindful Moment Room is the school’s meditation room where teachers send disruptive students instead of detention. The Mindful Moment Room is a “warm, brightly lit space strewn with purple floor pillows, yoga mats and the scents of essential oils.” In the room, kids are given the opportunity to stretch, do yoga and practice deep breathing that help them simmer down before returning to class. Most of the students that are disruptive and rowdy in class are the ones that are facing high-stress situations at home which cause strife at school.

In chapter 4 it talks about how we can practice being mindfulness with connecting mind and body together. To able to take in every moment in life one needs to enjoy every moment without our mind wandering off when we are doing an action. The body is great to practice being able to be mindfulness because it is something that will not go away. The author explains in the chapter that sometimes a way to came back to the mindfulness state is by breathing in and out, which leads to concentrate again. Another point made is that mindful attention to sensation requires you to take the time to actually experience the sensation. An example is when cooking you can practice mindful attention by smelling the different faces the food you are cooking goes

Goal #1. Physically I will create more time to work on staying in shape allowing me to remain able to be available and able to perform daily at work and at life.

Recent research in the clinical field of psychology has focused on combining mindfulness-based practices with clinical therapy to create more positive affects for clients. Mindfulness is often practiced in the form of meditation, but is determined by the development of one’s mental state to be able to create nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. Awareness of the present moment can be induced by thoughts, emotions, physical perceptions, and one’s environment (Grow, Collins, Harrop, & Marlatt, 2015). Research has begun to analyze mindfulness-based practices as an alternative treatment program for individuals with a substance abuse dependence. Substance abuse dependence often is correlated with increased stress, impulsivity, negative

On our first day of eighth grade, we were introduced to the word mindfulness. According to Jon Kabat-Zinn (the founder of modern day mindfulness), “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; On purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” Mindfulness involves a conscious direction of awareness about everything that is happening around you. But, there is a difference of being aware of something to being mindful about something. To be mindful, you have to be purposely aware of something, not just vaguely aware.

This study elaborates on how mindfulness meditation can be used to sooth anxiety. “Mindfulness meditation is premised on stabilizing attention, acknowledging discursive sensory events as ‘momentary’ and ‘releasing’ them without affective reaction” (Zeidan, Martucci, Kraft & Coghill, 2014). For this study specific participants were selected to go through a process form results for the existing hypothesis. Zeidan et al. (2014) “We hypothesized that mindfulness meditation would be more effective at reducing anxiety than simply attending to the breath (ATB) because mindfulness meditation wold recruit mechanisms associated with cognitive control and emotion regulation.”

This program consisted of 15 minutes of daily audio sessions. Everyday, for five consecutive weeks, the participating employees will be guided through brief body scans and sitting meditation sessions. During regular working hours, they will be invited to listen to a 10-mins audio session in the morning before beginning their work and an additional 5-mins audio session just after lunch.

God wants us to live in the present because of how, as Screwtape has said, an intersection of our time with eternity. What this means is that by being in the present, we realize how we are in the presence of God. Living in the Future means to focus of our own future well being while living in the present means to be grateful of the things that are and focus on not only our own well being but of others. Only in the present can we truly see God.

Through much research towards the history of mindfulness meditation followed by understanding the risks of today’s college students practicing unhealthy methods to increase academic performance it is important to find a link between the two in order to bring forth a new means of aiding academic performance. Through proper research and diligent efforts it will be a top goal to not only scientifically support the potential for meditation to be more successful than non-prescription drugs (Adderall) when it comes to increasing academic performance.

In the journal article, The Influence of a Brief Mindfulness Exercise on Encoding of Novel Words in Female College Students, published in Mindfulness, Bonamo, Legerski, & Thomas (2015) designed a study to see if the cognitive benefits associated with mindfulness training found by previous research would lead to increased performance on a learning task. To support the purpose of the study, the researchers used the existing literature on mindfulness that shows converging evidence for mindfulness training’s capacity to improve attention, working memory, and self-regulation (Beauchemin, Hutchins, Patterson, 2008; Chan & Woollacott, 2007; Hölzel et al. 2011). However, most previous research has evaluated the effects of extensive mindfulness

Exercise is a very important way that improves people’s mental health and something that also slows mental aging. There are many ways that moving in certain ways not only helps people’s body but their mind as well. Moving around for health is something that every person will benefit from, and exercise can be made to be just right for one person. Exercise can be made custom to anyone’s personal needs and there are many ways to exercise to the extent of what is comfortable for the person. Activity using someone’s body can help with depression, improve the brain’s executive function, improve immediate mental performance, and it helps people with their memory.

What do CEOs, inner city school children, returning military personnel, prisoner inmates, MBA players, doctors, and nurses all have in common? Would you guess the answer is meditation? While there are many paths to meditation mindful meditation has become the most common. In recent years there has been a growing population of people who are finding meditation helpful to reduce stress, improve productivity, and relieve symptoms of anxiety and depression. Due to the increasing popularity there is now more money than ever going towards funding scientific studies to help understand the effects mediation and mindfulness have on the body and the mind. Carolyn Gregoir, at The Huffington Post writes “It’s undeniable

fixating feelings of loneliness or a low sense of purpose (Shonin et al., 2014a). Mindfulness training is effective because it provides coping skills to reduce impulses, emotions and stress associated with gambling urges (Reid, DiTirro & Fong, 2014).

Overall, I truly believe that this course has changed me into a better person and has allowed be to further strengthen my relationship with God. I feel that my experience of prayer this semester has taken me down a completely different path then before entering this course. I fell this way because I have realized that I have been incorporating meditation in my daily life and that it has helped me to become less stressed and full of tension whereas before I started mediating, I would feel overwhelmed. I have grown in prayerfulness because before entering this course, I would just pass through life not giving anything or anyone any thoughts and now as this course is coming to an end, I find myself stop and taking consideration of feelings and

For my first mindfulness activity extended reflection I selected Activity 41 from How to Train A Wild Elephant – Be On Time. As described in the book I set the intention for one whole week to do my best to be on time for all events / classes / appointments that I had to attend. While I am most often present by the designated time for the many things I do, I frequently find myself leaving little to no wiggle room to be on time and end up racing down to the wire to not be late for things. As someone who took 3 entire years off from education between high school and college I had a lengthy period of my life where I essentially made my own schedule and seldom needed to be somewhere on time. There has certainly been a learning curve to having a