KINE 4370 Final: Reading Notes - 1st half (Weeks 2, 4, 8)
8 Nov 2016
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The difficulty of defining mindfulness: current thought and critical issues. Introduction: mindfulness has gained increasing attention in scientific and lay communities to deal with many psychological and physical disorders. Increasing interventions helped practitioners have mindfulness in everyday lives: have shown efficacy for several mood and anxiety disorders, chronic pains, reducing psychological symptoms in cancer patients, and reducing stress in healthy people. Also increase positive emotions and reduce negative ones. Associated with significant changed in brain functioning that might suggest improved levels of attention, memory and executive functions: surprising that significantly less effort has been made to create a definition of mindfulness. The concept of mindfulness within the buddhist tradition: early conceptualizations of mindfulness can be found in traditional buddhist scriptures. Sati is a term used to indicate lucid awareness of what is occurring and translated as remembrance or memory: developing a sati is valuable, leads to calm and content state, with emotional balance.
