Mindfulness And Mindlessness By Ellen Langer

Since birth, a little girl by the name of Melody was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. That is a disorder that affects movement, muscle tone, and motor skills. It causes reflex movements that the person can’t control and it causes muscle tightness that can affect a part of the body if not the whole body. Ever since she was born, she was loved and cared for but she wasn’t able to say a single word. The book’s title is “Out of My Mind,” by Sharon M. Draper. It focuses on a disabled girl and her thoughts. Most fiction books have author’s purposes and this book’s author’s purpose is to entertain and inform.

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The prolific success rates of mindfulness-based therapeutic techniques among the body of evidence only highlights how we can further incorporate mindfulness into not only psychological treatments, but also into our daily lives as preventative measures against unnecessary distress. The cognitive perceptual and interpretive control afforded via mindfulness practices seems to influence the appraisal of the situation at hand affects our reaction and response to it. The advantageous ability to objectively reflect on an issue before responding is not confined only to the realm of treating psychological symptoms.

Being aware of your surroundings both in a physical and mental sense can help bring out natural responses in humans. These responses can be emotional, physical and psychological and can be applied to many everyday life situations but one of the most interesting is the college setting. While in college, most students encounter multiple tests, quizzes, and a variety of other stressful assignments. Mindfulness can be defined as being mentally and situationally aware of what is going on in a person’s surroundings (Brown & Ryan 2003). Research has proven that the students who are mindful tend to have a reduced level of anxiety and stress than people who aren’t mindful. Situational

In this world we have people who are successful and others, who aren’t. But what's make them different from each other? What if I should tell you, that you can be successful by just changing your mind? I don’t mean by just thinking positive, I mean changing the way of viewing thing into a growth mindset. Don't know what a growth mindset is, well you should read a book that will change your way of thinking to become a better you and even successful. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, explains how there are two different types of mindset. These mindset plays a big role on who’s successful and why. It is not rocket science, the book just explain to us on thing we might have never thought about and bring it to better light. This book can change everything for you.

In the book “Out of my Mind” by Sharon M. Draper, the main character in the book, Melody, has a rare disease called cerebral palsy. This affects her physically and emotionally, for she can’t control her movements or talk. This doesn’t give her a very good chance of building a social life.

Every human has their own limits. There comes a point where your body can’t physically or mentally overcome some obstacles; but that’s okay. Limitations that can be viewed as hindrances to some, while other’s view their adversities as challenges that will not only strengthen them as a person but allow them to mature through their obstacles. In Leslie Bell’s “Hard to Get: Twenty-something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”, Bell coins the term “splitting” in her writing as a way of thinking that can limit people when it comes to opportunities in their careers as well as relationships. In “Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become”, Barbara Fredrickson focusses on the

This paper is about elaborating the concept of memorization based on Ellen J. Langer book The Power of Mindful Learning. I wrote this paper in first person point of view since it was based on my personal experience. It was hard however to maintain a formal tone when writing in first person and it might still be evident in this essay itself. I think that the essay itself is still choppy and I should put more time in making more flow and connections between the paragraphs and different points. It is also relatively short for the essay requirement. If I had to do it again I would definitely revise it more than once and probably ask someone else to proof read it. I learned to cite personal experience and information from the

The novel “An Unquiet Mind” starts off describing the life of a young girl, Kay. Early off in Kay’s life she is experiencing traumatizing life events. One of those events is a very close encounter with a plane that flew over the elementary playground very low and “It flew into the trees, exploding directly in front of us” (12). Early on it seems much easier to see how she developed the mental illness, manic-depressive (bipolar) illness. Also, her father showed signs of a bipolar illness and maybe it could be heredity. Another traumatizing event was when Kay and her family moved to California and the complete shock from the change in background. This switch also leads to Kay drinking before she attends classes for high school. Just at the age of 16, Kay is beginning to see just how much her mood swings are affecting her friends and how the bipolar illness is changing her life.

My favorite book and the best book to read, is Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. Sharon Draper is an excellent author and such a terrific writer that she won the Coretta Scott King Award for Authors twice; in 1998 and also in 2007. She has also received other awards for her writing but, the one that directly impacted me was when her book Out of My Mind received the Sunshine State Young Readers award in 2011-2012. This award brings to attention the books that are considered to be great reads for my age group and it was this that brought the book to my attention when I was in the fourth grade. It was this book that helped me understand people with disabilities.

It is hypothesized that when the subject implements the mindfulness intervention she will experience less rumination. In other words, by improving the participant’s self-care routine we will also improve her SWB.

Journalists simplify empirical research findings into consumer news stories by summarizing the study into interesting, nontechnical terms for the general public, potentially resulting in misleading information that deviates from the findings of the research (Morling, 2012). In the popular press article, "Mindfulness Meditation Can Help You Make Smarter Decisions", Christopher Bergland (2012) suggests that brief sessions of meditation can result in making "smarter" decisions. Bergland based this claim on a an empirical study conducted by Andrew Hafenbrack, Zoe Kinias, and Sigal Barsade, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Psychological Science (2014). This article (Bergland, 2014) proposes that doing meditation prevents

Mindfulness has slowly crept into modern day America and has become commonly thought as unattached from its Buddhist origin. In order to attract customers and adherents, writers and teachers of mindfulness separated it from Buddhism. Secular practitioners still benefit from mindfulness, not as a religious meditative ritual, but as a concentration and thinking technique that can improve their wellbeing and efficiency. Even if mindfulness is used as an improved thinking tool and health practice, it remains linked to the Buddhist religion and ideals, and a clear ignorance of that relationship is wrong no matter the benefits. The appropriation of mindfulness into secular America also definitely waters down core Buddhist principles such as the

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