PSYCH 2NF3 Lecture 27: Mindfulness
22 Jan 2019
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Mindful awareness: direct experience in the present moment. About a practice in which you maintain your attention (attention-practice: practice in focusing on one thing. Mindfulness meditation based stress reduction (mbsr) program, developed by dr. jon. Kabat-zinn: a molecular biology scientist: this shows us that there is scientific validity to this approach. Mbsr training could help improve immune function, accelerate rates of healing, and an overall sense of well-being: bettering mental health has an impact on people"s physiology and biology. Current directions in psychological science: health neuroscience (a new field_ This new field tries to think about how we can take practices that better our mental health, and the impact of it on the brain. When mindfulness is incorporated in psychotherapy, it leads to improvements in various disorders with reduction in symptoms and prevention in relapse: (hayes et al. , 2004; 1999; linehan, 1993; marlatt & gordon, 1985; parks et al. , Having insight into what you are thinking at any given moment.
