Mindfulness Program Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to examine Positive Psychology Mindfulness, and the therapeutic application of Mindfulness in the treatment of dependency, specifically alcohol dependency. This paper will review some of the latest research in the field of Mindfulness, the results of therapeutic interventions, and the author’s personal experience in this field. The relationship between Positive Psychology and Mindfulness (Siegel, 2011) was the focus of a Harvard Health Publication “Positive Psychology, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School, is a guide to the concepts that can be helpful in finding well-being and happiness, based on the latest research.” Other authors have reported that the benefits include a reduction in rumination,

The new intervention that I would like to implement at Huther Doyle is meditation. Using meditation and mindfulness will help patients be able to center themselves and provide a time for centering in their hectic lives. Normal group sessions are two hours long. When implementing meditation the same length of group time will be necessary for billing purposes. The two hour session will be distributed with the first 30 minutes consisting of meditation and the last hour and a half consisting of discussion. The meditation will be lead by the primary group counselor or myself. The

The Mindfulness Exercise used in the role play was the Imagery Relaxation. I found the technique to come natural to me because I have been practicing Buddhism for fourteen years, lived in a Buddhist Center for one year, and studied at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the Mayo Clinic where I took the eight week Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Course designed by John Kabat-Zinn. My past experiences enabled me to feel comfortable integrating this technique into the session with the client more naturally. The practice wisdom acquired from my past, provided a strong platform to implement the exercise in a more fluid way, first by guiding the client through visual scene and then asking him to guide himself through a relaxing scene of his choice. By the time he guided himself, he

I feel we live in an exciting time for psychotherapy, where people are more open than ever before to new therapies, and ancient traditions such as yoga, meditation, story telling are seen under a new light. The next article explores a fascinating anti-violence program with male prison inmates in Germany. The assimilation of Eastern traditions, such as meditation and martial arts, in our Western culture, has yielded interesting results. My clients have offered very positive feedback after working with mindful meditation and breathing techniques. I would very much like to see more anti-violence programs implemented not only in prisons but also in schools and communities in general. Of course, prison inmates are amongst the groups that need this

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

The client presented as well groomed. The client was in an anxious mood aeb sharing that her mood today is anxious because she is afraid to not tier up today. The client shared that her mind is racing with thoughts sometimes about leaving the facility to go home or to go to Mexico because she needs to feel that she is living a normal life as she reported. The client reported that she is sometimes catching herself having negative thoughts and racing thoughts and sometimes not, as she reported; it is more according to the mood. The client discussed with the therapist and the other client how she was able to describe why the situation was accruing and how she was judgmental with herself. The client shared that she could practice some of the positive ideas about her returning back home in her mind since she is sometimes able to control the situation but in this situation she is not controlling what her mother will choose.

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

Mindfulness Stress Reduction Workshop session one was an online presentation using Facebook Live on Friday November 11th starting at 4pm. The video was available at any time. Participants had the option of watching live or could watch after the fact. Also the video was available for participants to re-watch and ask questions at any time. I checked for new comments and/or questions every day and responded within 24 hours.

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.

Mindfulness, in simplest terms, is being aware of your current experiences. Depression is one of two disorders that is found worldwide (Myers, 2014). With mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, patients go through an eight week group that incorporates mindfulness into everyday activities like eating and chores (Lu, 2015). As the reader, you will go in depth into what psychological disorders are and types of psychological disorders, how mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) works, and the effectiveness of MBCT.

Although the treatment method may not be the predominant driver of successful helping, it is still of significant importance (Egan, 2014). Given the client presented with self-defeating thoughts, one might assume that cognitive-based interventions such as Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT; Beck, Emery & Greenberg, 1985) would be the most efficacious as this attempts to deal directly with changing negative cognitions. However, some have likened this cognitive restructuring to thought suppression, associated with subsequent, unsolicited revival of those suppressed thoughts (Hayes, Strosahl & Wilson, 1999). Furthermore, Eifert and Forsyth (2005) assert that this ruminative cycle is maintained through fixating on those thoughts. This is in favour of the concept that mindfulness and acceptance may constitute a more effective way of reducing negative thoughts than cognitive restructuring (Niles et al., 2014). Moreover, research suggests mindfulness-based approaches may be effective in helping clients to improve interpersonal skills (Dekeyser, Raes, Leijssen, Leysen & Dewulf, 2007). Thus, it appears that a mindfulness-based approach such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; Hayes et al.,1999) seems applicable given the client’s negative cognitions and perceived lack of social skills. Underlying ACT is the branch of philosophical science termed functional contextualism (Hayes, Pistorello, & Levin, 2012).

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

It is mindfulness that teaches us to listen-instead of merely talk-to our patients, recognize our strengths and our weaknesses, acknowledge our values and prejudices and own our mistakes. When we practice medicine mindfully we become more compassionate and more insightful; even better, our mindfulness becomes a moral compass that directs us to act professionally.

In today's workplace, workers are faced with many different distracters in the all round-the-clock atmosphere. As Bill Crossland (2012) notes, external pressure, information workload, asked to produce more with less, extended work hours and less personal time to renew oneself has detrimental results to productivity in the workplace. Ranging from the self-inflicted attention disorder, lack of focus, exhaustion, ill health and burnouts that lead to lower morale and low job satisfaction and these are hardly the results we want at work. If none of you have heard about mindfulness, this article will focus on what is mindfulness and how one can integrate it at the workplace and its benefits.

Purpose of the Activity: SOS is a mindfulness exercise that can be used to increase internal awareness of group members. It emphasizes staying present in the current moment and can be used to ground a group. Over time this mindfulness exercise can help to teach group members how their environment impacts them and how to address their “triggers”. The facilitator encourages the group members to use the mindfulness activity to observe and describe their surroundings and feelings without judging them.