Teaching Mindfulness

Annotated Bibliography Chiesa, A., & Malinowski, P. Mindful Based Approaches: Are they all the Same? Retrieved April 18, 2017, from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/338d/109a4fc37ea74734c6e13ce59ae1925ea78c.pdf This source discusses various mindful based approaches that are used today. It gives a brief overview of the different approaches and provides examples for each of the approaches. I plan

read about how mindfulness mediation can improve mood, quality of life, and attention for those adults who struggle with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). What they were trying to discover was ways to alleviate the signs or impairments that can occur with an individual with affective problems or impaired attention. Most adults with ADHD have a hard time with staying alert and attentive to their surroundings. In the study, all participants in the treatment group received an 8 week course where they were taught meditation techniques and those in the control group did not receive any sort of meditation techniques but instead were prescribed an ADHD medication to take. The medication obviously helped those not receiving the meditation

Mindfulness is a practice that requires an individual to be cognizant of the present state of mind. As a practice, mindfulness challenged everything that I was accustomed to. I tend to often think about the past and the future immensely, which made thinking about the present almost impossible. I preferred to reflect on the present after it happened, rather than while it was occurring. In this essay, I will be talking about how mindfulness aided me in being more accepting at Samaritans and being more forgiving in my personal life. Both values were deeply connected, and it is through mindfulness that I was able to realize how important they are.

Mindfulness Training in the Workplace 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.

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

Dialectical Behavior Therapy & Mindfulness Mindfulness is another way of meditation. Meditation was used to seek to improve one’s psychological or physical health, or spiritual growth. (Brantley, 2007). The history of Mindfulness comes from Buddhism and his search for enlightenment and a foundation of the four noble truths. The Buddha teaching focus on the four noble truths which consist of knowing suffering exists, there is a cause of suffering, there is cessation of suffering and there is a path that leads to the cessation of suffering. (Van Gordon, 2015). The four noble truths were not only there to represent the Buddha’s experiential understanding of suffering, but also to express the truth (Van Gordon, 2015). Studies of Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths teach us that there is always going to be suffering in our life but to find ways to overcome suffering (Tsering, 2005).

Josephine P. Briggs, M. (2010, June 25). Exploring the Power of Meditation. Retrieved from National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: https://nccih.nih.gov/about/offices/od/2010-06.htm

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.

Introduction Mindfulness practice has received immense attention in recent years. Specifically, mindfulness practice has been explored by professional athletes, from organizations attempting to improve productivity, and even politicians for stress reduction. Nevertheless, educators have begun to explore mindfulness practice effectiveness for enhancing educational, emotional, and behavioral outcomes for students. Fundamentally, mindfulness practice is established on spirituality principles that teach attention focusing. Moreover, the technique facilitates open communication regarding emotions and feelings. Thus, mindfulness practice aims to silence distractions of the mind while enhancing awareness. As a relatively new practice, it is

Dickinson, Friary and McCann (2016) state that Kabat-Zinn’s (2011, 1991) Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is connected to mindfulness. Bishop et al (2004) claim that suggesting Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as a means of treating people’s sufferings has significantly increased the clinical uses of mindfulness.

Many studies have found that Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) meditations enhance well-being by building a mindful awareness. Shaprio et al. (2007), found that MBSR programs taught over the course of a semester help decrease rumination, perceived stress, negative affect, and state and trait anxiety. It was also found to help increase positive affect and self-compassion. These findings are based off the concept that self-awareness (achieved through MBSR) is the basis of self-care, as it is an unbiased observation of inner behaviors and

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Stress is an emotional state that is difficult to define because everyone experiences stress in different ways. Pathologically speaking, stress is the brain’s response to certain demands for change and can be positive or negative depending on the individual. This state of mind is induced by physical and emotional stimuli; this in turn generates a response that affects many aspects of a person’s wellbeing. Psychological, behavioral and biological stressors all play a role in an individual’s mood, sense of well-being, behavior and health (Schneiderman, Ironson, & Siegel, Stress and health: psychological, behavioral, and biological determinants, 2005). These factors can threaten our internal homeostasis which

The second stated “long-term meditators would show superior performance to short-term meditators”. And the third stated “concentrative meditators would be more subject to expectancy effects…mindfulness meditators would show superior performance relative to concentrative meditators when the stimulus was unexpected” (Valentine & Sweet, 1999, p. 63). Using the Wilkins’ Counting Test (a measure of sustained focused attention) the control group was placed in a classroom to perform the test while the meditation groups were tested post meditation sessions in a separate room. The test was comprised of a series of tones which each group was asked to count (the meditation groups were told there would be three rather than two sets). The results confirmed the three hypotheses, overall concurring the use of meditation leads to improved concentration with little difference between concentrative and mindfulness meditation (Valentine & Sweets, 1999).

primary conclusions of this study were that 77% of participants who successfully completed the MBCT experienced a significant reduction in recurrence rates of almost half in comparison with those who received only treatment as usual (Teasdale et al., 2000). In 2002, Teasdale et al. followed up with a three-part

Before taking the class, and before really understanding the benefits of mindfulness, I must admit, I did not really take mindfulness exercises seriously. I tried a few exercises, led by a phone application, but I constantly wondered what these exercises were supposed to achieve. I always thought to myself, “I know what happens around me, being mindful is great, but specific exercises for this seemed exaggerated.”