My First Mindfulness Activity Extended Reflection

Growing up I was always taught that early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable. My grandparents were very particular about being on time. My grandfather owned his own business and was self-employed so being on time to meetings with clients was a major aspect of his job. If he were to be late to a meeting with clients he would run the risk of losing the job, and losing jobs meant not getting paid, and not getting paid meant his business wouldn’t make the money needed to keep going.

This paper is about my experience with mindfulness based meditation and scientific inquiry of these experiences. Mindfulness based meditation is describes as technique used to cultivate nonreactive, non-judgmental and stable awareness of the present moment (Garland and Gaylord, 2009). The end goal is to sustain this meta-cognitive state for a long period of time. I practiced non-denominational form of mindfulness based meditation for the first time in my psychology class, which was devoted towards intellectual and experiential examination of meditation. The practice was conducted in a group it was instructed by our own professor and it begun at the end of class. There was one sessions per week and each session was structured meaning it was

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

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.

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

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

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

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.

This is a multi-part study. For Part 1, a literature review, which examines the types and benefits of mindfulness training in the workplace, is presented. The review begins by defining mindfulness then reviews and summarizes the extant research on mindfulness in the workplace, including discussion of the psychological and physiological benefits received from mindfulness training. Then, the focus turns to social mindfulness and empathy awareness, border theory and cultural intelligence theory as well as scales used in measuring mindfulness. Part 2 of the paper will describe the method and outcome of a survey-based study of the types of mindfulness training is currently used in the Tulsa business community.

I would say out of all our discussions, the one on the Third Mindfulness Training: Sexual Responsibility by far was my favorite. I am a shy person when it comes to talking in class and would classify myself as a strong introvert. Our discussion on the Third Mindfulness though spark something in me and I participated in the discussion in class, which was a very big step out of the box for me. I would say I connect with this Mindfulness Training because I am a very open-hearted person and would say I wear my heart on my sleeve. I personally struggle to let people in even though I care more about the person than they know because I have been let down often in my life. This Mindful training opened my mind and made me think a different way and that is why I enjoyed this class discussion and am glad to write on it more in

Another aspect of commination discussed in the material was regarding “questions”. I am using these in my counseling and coaching practice. Like cited in the lesson (the quote by Peter Drucker), it’s important to know our mission, customers and what they value) and our plan for results. I regularly communicate with clients about their specific plan and help them communicate it with those important in their lives.

Mindful meditation for pain relief has been proven to decrease the mind's response to pain by 40-57% according to a discovery published in The Journal of Neuroscience. But how do you get these benefits when you're in so much pain you can't think? This article offers you easy meditation techniques to use for meditation for anxiety and pain relief.

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.

This study explores the relationship between mindfulness and experiential learning to develop a concept termed mindful experiential learning. Although significant research on mindfulness and experiential learning has been conducted, no efforts have been made to study how the two concepts relate to one another. The authors, Bauback Yeganeh and David Kolb feature two types of mindfulness research streams that include the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) and the Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS) that measure the two approaches respectively as they relate to experiential learning measured by Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and compliance of learning style as measured by Adaptive Styles Inventory (ASI). A combination of the two 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.