Mindfulness Practice

This source provides counter point to mindfulness and discusses how it could possibly be fad that our world is facing right now. However, it provides two reasons for why mindfulness is important to increase the good well being between co workers and to facilitate the healing process with patients. I plan to use this source for these two reasons.

This article was based on a pilot study that provided mindfulness training to obese individuals. The training was an established curriculum called Mindfulness Eating and Living (MEAL) and was used as an intervention. It was hypothesized that MEAL would be associated with a decrease in weight and inflammation and improvement in metabolic markers. Outcome markers were established at baseline, after completion of the program and in follow up at 12 weeks.

Participants in this MBSR-based program reported improvements in their mindfulness skills, with effect sizes larger than those found in previous studies using the same measure with professionals in training [28-31] and larger than those reported in studies using other mindfulness scales with healthcare professionals [32-34]. Participants also

In terms of stress reduction, mindfulness refers to the development of skills “characterized by a nonjudgmental awareness, openness, curiosity and acceptance of internal and external present experiences” (Chiesa & Serrety, 2009. p. 593). The constant practice of mindfulness exercises accounts for the reduction of stress. In their review of ten articles relevant to the effectiveness of mindfulness practices on stress reduction (MBSR), Chiessa and Serretti, (2009) found a significant positive effect of mindfulness practices compared to no treatment, in reducing stress levels in healthy people. MBSR is a psychoeducational group intervention (Cadwell et al, 2010), where participants receive formal training in various

In modern day San Francisco the term of mindfulness is nothing new to the residence here. Meditation, acupuncture, yoga, and herbal remedies are heard about almost as often as news of the California drought. The difficult part of all of these terms is attempting to figure out what, if any of them, are right to incorporate into a daily life practice. The hype about mindfulness meditation in particular starts to become clearer as more research findings show the astounding benefits.

Study 7. Galentino, Baime, Maguire, Szapary, & Farrar (2005) assessed the correlation of health care professional report of stress symptoms and salivary cortisol in an 8 week mindfulness program (MM, a cognitive behavioral stress management program based on mindfulness). Additionally, they examined the impact that a mindfulness program has on mood, empathy, and burnout. They gathered data, prospectively, at baseline and after 8 weeks of the program’s completion. 84 employees from within a university hospital participated in this study. Salivary cortisol was collected at a curtain time during sessions (Galentino, et al., 2005). Participants were given three psychological measures: Profile of Moods States-Short Form (POMS-SF), Maslach Burnout Inventory, and Interpersonal Reactivity (IRI) at baseline and after the program

The hypothesis is projected that mindfulness interventions will alter and improve the way the teachers score the students and perceive their behaviors as well as the students’ ability to improve academically and behaviorally when extended interventions take place. It is suggested that mindfulness training serves as a benefit to the students as well as the teachers in that it will train the teachers to conduct their classes in a certain manner as well as train students to practice a mindset that is conducive to formulating what is a non-disruptive learning environment to both teacher and student.

One study asked if and how mediation helps chronic pain (The Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training on Experimentally Induced Pain, Zeidan, http://www.psych.uncc.edu/pagoolka/seminar/jofpain2009.pdf). The study had just 15 participants and each underwent an MRI while pain was induced. Each participant was then taught mindfulness meditation and given another MRI. One group meditated during the MRI and pain induction and the other group did not. The meditating group experienced a 40% reduction in the intensity of the pain.

It is so sad to say, but many people do not know what mindfulness meditation is and its benefits. Unfortunately I was one of the people that did not know what it meant although I was close, I wasn’t exactly right. I thought it was changing ones state of mind from negative to positive in order to over come a fear of a certain thing. In this research paper, I will discuss the benefits that mindfulness meditation does and the alternatives there are to this meditation.

Mindfulness practitioners and teachers have been coming forth with the consequences of teachers with minimal training. Some National Health Service (NHS) trusts have been persuading health professionals to teach mindfulness after only going through one round, 8-weeks, of these Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy practices. Lokhadi Lloyd, for example, is an experienced psychotherapist and mindfulness meditation teacher in London and has brought up these problems. Generally, when some people practice, things can get undesirable before desired outcomes surface. With less training being required of a teacher, they are not as prone to help those practicing under them in a beneficial way. Dr. Farias also agrees

It is important to do some formal mindfulness meditation practice, understanding thoughts are mental events, not truths, living in the present moment not past or future, increasing self-knowledge, becoming and accepting of emotional states; for formal practice of meditation helps people find a special place, day and time every day and remembering to feed the body, not the emotion or the mind for people suffering an eating disorder. Informal practice, the individual as to do their best to remember to remain mindful every time they need to eat. Release outside influences such as the media and their image of a perfect body, the goal is the relationship to food changes over time with mindful attention.

Mindfulness meditation is referred to as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT. MBCT is increasing in popularity among new techniques in therapy around the globe. Studies have proven that mindfulness meditation can help to reduce daily turmoil such as depression, anxiety, and stress. It has been stated that “mindfulness is believed to promote good health, and many studies have associated mindfulness with decreases in depression and anxiety. (Good Therapy, 2016). There are many factors that cause one to experience depression, anxiety, or stress. During MBCT individuals are taught new techniques to control their emotions, which plays a big role in depression, anxiety, and stress.

The Krame Center at Ramapo College recently partnered with the Center of Mindfulness (CFM) at the University of Massachusetts, introducing new programming this fall semester designed to create awareness about the meditative practice of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is a relatively new phenomenon to the Western world although has been practiced in other countries across the world for thousands of years as a form of meditation. Thought to have first been introduced before Buddhism thousands of years ago, mindfulness was taught to Buddha as a way of alleviating suffering. Today, mindfulness focuses on helping people in secular ways to develop skills that can be used in daily life and

It has been said before and although cliché “People will forget what you say to them, but they will never forget how you made the feel”. For this paper I will be discussing professional presence and differences in ideas of health and healing as it related to being human. I will explore and discuss my thoughts, attitudes, beliefs about healthcare (professional presence), what my personality can bring to nursing, (mindfulness practice), and the patient experience when they utilize healthcare (healing environments). Discussion will be made on the professional application of my own professional presence in regards to personality preferences. Mindfulness practice will be explored into relation with my interests, goals and beliefs.