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Orientation to experience the second component involves maintaining an attitude of curiosity about objects experienced at each moment, and about where and how the mind wanders when it drifts from the selected focus of attention.
Clients are asked to avoid trying to produce a particular state e. relaxation , but rather to just notice each object that arises in the stream of consciousness. An ancient model of the mind, generally known as the five-aggregate model [79] enables one to understand the moment-to-moment manifestation of subjective conscious experience, and therefore can be a potentially useful theoretical resource to guide mindfulness interventions.
This model is based upon the traditional buddhist description of the Skandhas. This model describes how sensory consciousness results in the generation of feelings, perception or volition, and how individuals' previously conditioned attitudes and past associations influence this generation.
The five aggregates are described as constantly arising and ceasing in the present moment. The practice of mindfulness can be utilized to gradually develop self-knowledge and wisdom.
This could include understanding what the "present moment" is, how various thoughts, etc. Mindfulness as a modern, Western practice is founded on Zen and modern Vipassanā , [8] [9] [note 11] and involves the training of sati, which means "moment to moment awareness of present events", but also "remembering to be aware of something".
Sati is one of the seven factors of enlightenment. Mindfulness is an antidote to delusion and is considered as a 'power' Pali: bala which contributes to the attainment of Nibbana. This faculty becomes a power in particular when it is coupled with clear comprehension of whatever is taking place.
Nirvana is a state of being in which greed, hatred and delusion Pali: moha have been overcome and abandoned, and are absent from the mind. According to Paul Williams , referring to Erich Frauwallner , mindfulness provided the way in Early Buddhism to liberation, "constantly watching sensory experience in order to prevent the arising of cravings which would power future experience into rebirths.
According to Thomas William Rhys Davids , the doctrine of mindfulness is "perhaps the most important" after the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. Rhys Davids viewed the teachings of Gotama Buddha as a rational technique for self-actualization and rejected a few parts of it, mainly the doctrine of rebirth, as residual superstitions.
The aim of zazen is just sitting , that is, suspending all judgmental thinking and letting words, ideas, images and thoughts pass by without getting involved in them.
In modern vipassana -meditation, as propagated by the Vipassana movement , sati aids vipassana , insight into the true nature of reality, namely the three marks of existence , the impermanence of and the suffering of every conditioned thing that exists, and non-self.
Vipassana is practiced in tandem with Samatha , and also plays a central role in other Buddhist traditions. Vipassanā-meditation has gained popularity in the west through the modern Buddhist vipassana movement, modeled after Theravāda Buddhism meditation practices, [] which employs vipassanā and ānāpāna meditation as its primary techniques and places emphasis on the teachings of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta.
Anapanasati is mindfulness of breathing. Anapanasati means to feel the sensations caused by the movements of the breath in the body.
The Anapanasati Sutta gives an exposition on this practice. Satipaṭṭhāna is the establishment of mindfulness in one's day-to-day life, maintaining as much as possible a calm awareness of one's body, feelings, mind, and dhammas. The practice of mindfulness supports analysis resulting in the arising of wisdom Pali: paññā , Sanskrit: prajñā.
In contemporary Theravada practice, "mindfulness" also includes samprajaña , meaning "clear comprehension" and apramāda meaning "vigilance". In a publicly available correspondence between Bhikkhu Bodhi and B. Alan Wallace , Bodhi has described Ven.
Nyanaponika Thera 's views on "right mindfulness" and sampajañña as follows:. He held that in the proper practice of right mindfulness, sati has to be integrated with sampajañña, clear comprehension, and it is only when these two work together that right mindfulness can fulfill its intended purpose.
According to Buddhadasa , the aim of mindfulness is to stop the arising of disturbing thoughts and emotions, which arise from sense-contact. According to Grzegorz Polak, the four upassanā foundations of mindfulness have been misunderstood by the developing Buddhist tradition, including Theravada, to refer to four different foundations.
According to Polak, the four upassanā do not refer to four different foundations, but to the awareness of four different aspects of raising mindfulness: []. The Greek philosophical school of Stoicism founded by Zeno of Citium included practices resembling those of mindfulness, such as visualization exercises.
In his Discourses , Stoic philosopher Epictetus addresses in particular the concept of attention prosoche , an idea also found in Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Mindfulness traditions are also found in some Christian spiritual traditions. In his Rules for Eating, St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches, "let him guard against all his soul being intent on what he is eating, and in eating let him not go hurriedly, through appetite, but be master of himself, as well in the manner of eating as in the quantity which he eats.
Mindfulness practitioner Jon Kabat-Zinn refers to Thoreau as a predecessor of the interest in mindfulness, together with other eminent Transcendentalists such as Emerson and Whitman: [web 18]. The collective experience [note 17] of sages, yogis, and Zen masters offers a view of the world which is complementary to the predominantly reductionist and materialistic one currently dominating Western thought and institutions.
But this view is neither particularly "Eastern" nor mystical. Thoreau saw the same problem with our ordinary mind state in New England in and wrote with great passion about its unfortunate consequences. The forms of Asian religion and spirituality which were introduced in the west were themselves influenced by Transcendentalism and other 19th-century manifestations of Western esotericism.
Transcendentalism was closely connected to the Unitarian Church, [] [web 19] which in India collaborated with Ram Mohan Roy — and his Brahmo Samaj. Suzuki , who attempted to present a modern interpretation of Zen, adjusted to western tastes.
In , Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction MBSR program at the University of Massachusetts to treat the chronically ill. MBSR and similar programs are now widely applied in schools, prisons, hospitals, veterans centers, and other environments. Mindfulness practices were inspired mainly by teachings from the Eastern World , particularly from Buddhist traditions.
Kabat-Zinn was first introduced to meditation by Philip Kapleau , a Zen missionary who came to speak at MIT where Kabat-Zinn was a student. Kabat-Zinn went on to study meditation with other Zen-Buddhist teachers such as Thích Nhất Hạnh and Seungsahn.
Goenka in his Vipassana retreats, which he began in The body scan method has since been widely adapted to secular settings, independent of religious or cultural contexts.
Kabat-Zinn was also influenced by the book The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James [] which suggests that religions point toward the same experience, and which s counterculture figures interpreted as meaning that the same universal, experiential truth could be reached in different ways, including via non-religious activities.
Mindfulness is gaining a growing popularity as a practice in daily life, apart from Buddhist insight meditation and its application in clinical psychology. Mindfulness focuses the human brain on what is being sensed at each moment, instead of on its normal rumination on the past or the future.
The latest changes when people moved from real-life meditation sessions to the applications on their smart devices has been even more accelerated by the global pandemic.
Modern applications like are adapting to the needs of their users by using AI technology, involving professional psychologists and offering many different mindfulness approaches to serve a wider audience.
According to Jon Kabat-Zinn the practice of mindfulness may be beneficial to many people in Western society who might be unwilling to adopt Buddhist traditions or vocabulary. Mindfulness-based stress reduction MBSR is a mindfulness-based program [web 26] developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, which uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people become more mindful.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy MBCT is a psychological therapy designed to aid in preventing the relapse of depression, specifically in individuals with Major depressive disorder MDD.
Cognitive methods can include educating the participant about depression. Like CBT, MBCT functions on the theory that when individuals who have historically had depression become distressed, they return to automatic cognitive processes that can trigger a depressive episode.
Mindfulness-based pain management MBPM is a mindfulness-based intervention MBI providing specific applications for people living with chronic pain and illness. Acceptance and commitment therapy or ACT typically pronounced as the word "act" is a form of clinical behavior analysis CBA [] used in psychotherapy.
It is a psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways [] with commitment and behavior-change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. The approach was originally called comprehensive distancing. Hayes , Kelly G. Wilson, and Kirk Strosahl.
Mindfulness is a "core" exercise used in dialectical behavior therapy DBT , a psychosocial treatment Marsha M. Linehan developed for treating people with borderline personality disorder.
DBT is dialectic , says Linehan, [] in the sense of "the reconciliation of opposites in a continual process of synthesis. This emphasis in DBT on a balance of acceptance and change owes much to my experiences in studying meditation and Eastern spirituality.
The DBT tenets of observing, mindfulness, and avoidance of judgment are all derived from the study and practice of Zen meditations. Mode deactivation therapy MDT is a treatment methodology that is derived from the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy and incorporates elements of Acceptance and commitment therapy, Dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness techniques.
Mode Deactivation Therapy was developed and is established as an effective treatment for adolescents with problem behaviors and complex trauma-related psychological problems, according to recent publications by Jack A.
Apsche and Joan Swart. The Japanese psychiatrist Shoma Morita , who trained in Zen meditation, developed Morita therapy upon principles of mindfulness and non-attachment.
Internal Family Systems Model IFS , developed by Richard C. Schwartz , emphasizes the importance of both therapist and client engaging in therapy from the Self, which is the IFS term for one's "spiritual center". The Self is curious about whatever arises in one's present experience and open and accepting toward all manifestations.
Mindfulness relaxation uses breathing methods, guided imagery , and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress. Mindful Kids Miami is a tax-exempt, c 3 , non-profit corporation established in dedicated to making age-appropriate mindfulness training available to school children in Miami-Dade County public and private schools.
This is primarily accomplished by training educators and other childcare providers to incorporate mindfulness practices in the children's daily activities. In , The Inner Kids Program , a mindfulness-based program developed for children, was introduced into public and private school curricula in the greater Los Angeles area.
MindUP, a classroom-based program spearheaded by Goldie Hawn 's Hawn Foundation, teaches students to self-regulate behavior and mindfully engage in focused concentration required for academic success.
For the last decade, MindUP has trained teachers in over 1, schools in cities from Arizona to Washington. The Holistic Life Foundation, a non-profit organization that created an in-school mindfulness program called Mindful Moment, is currently serving almost students daily at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School and approximately students at Patterson Park High School in Baltimore, Maryland.
At Patterson High School, the Mindful Moment program engages the school's faculty along with the students during a minute mindfulness practice at the beginning and end of each school day.
Mindful Life Project, a non-profit c 3 based out of Richmond, California , teaches mindfulness to elementary school students in underserved schools in the South Richmond school district. Utilizing curriculum, "Rise-Up" is a regular school day intervention program serving students weekly, while "Mindful Community" is currently implemented at six South Richmond partner schools.
These in-school mindfulness programs have been endorsed by Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin , who has recommended additional funding to expand the program in order to serve all Richmond youth. Mindfulness practices are becoming more common within educational institutions including Elementary and Secondary schools.
This has been referred to as part of a 'contemplative turn' in education that has emerged since the turn of the millennium. Within educational systems, the application of mindfulness practices shows an improvement of students' attention and focus, emotional regulation, creativity, and problem solving skills.
Renshaw and Cook state, "As scientific interest in the utility of Mindfulness-Based Intervention MBI in schools grew steadily, popular interest in mindfulness in schools seemed to grow exponentially".
Current research on mindfulness in education is limited but can provide insight into the potential benefits for students, and areas of improvement for future studies. Mindfulness in the classroom is being touted as a promising new intervention tool for young students.
According to Choudhury and Moses, "Although still marginal and in some cases controversial, secular programs of mindfulness have been implemented with ambitious goals of improving attentional focus of pupils, social-emotional learning in "at-risk" children and youth, not least, to intervene in problems of poverty and incarceration".
As cited by Renshaw and Cook, "Unlike most other approaches to contemporary school-based intervention, which are squarely grounded in behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and ecological systems theories, MBIs have their origins in Eastern religious traditions".
Yet, MBIs continue to be accepted by the mainstream in both primary and secondary schools because, "Mindfulness practices, particularly in relation to children who might otherwise be considered broken or unredeemable, fill a critical niche — one that allows its advocates to imagine a world where people can change, become more compassionate, resilient, reflective, and aware; a world with a viable future".
Available research reveals a relationship between mindfulness and attention. In addition, Flook shows how an eight-week mindfulness awareness program was evaluated in a random and controlled school setting and measured the effects of awareness practices on executive functions in elementary school children.
Their findings concluded, "Participation in the mindfulness awareness program was associated with improvements in behavioral regulation, metacognition, and overall executive functions". These perspectives are a valuable source of data given that caregivers and educators interact with the children daily and across a variety of settings.
According to Eklund, Omalley, and Meyer, "School-based practitioners should find promise in the evidence supporting mindfulness-based practices with children, parents, and educators". Mindfulness-Based Interventions are rising across western culture, but its effectiveness in school programs is still being determined.
Research contends, "Mindfulness-based approaches for adults are effective at enhancing mental health, but few controlled trials have evaluated their effectiveness among young people".
In a firmly controlled experiment, Johnson, Burke, Brinkman, and Wade evaluated "the impact of an existing and widely available school-based mindfulness program". According to their research, "no improvements were demonstrated on any outcome measured either immediately post-intervention or at three-month follow-up".
Mindfulness training appears to be getting popular in the business world, and many large corporations have been incorporating mindfulness practices into their culture.
Army offer mindfulness coaching, meditation breaks and other resources to their employees to improve workplace functioning.
The introduction of mindfulness in corporate settings still remains in early stages and its potential long-term impact requires further assessment. Mindfulness has been found to result in better employee well-being, [] lower levels of frustration, lower absenteeism and burnout as well as an improved overall work environment.
Legal and law enforcement organizations are also showing interest in mindfulness: []. Mindfulness has been taught in prisons, reducing hostility and mood disturbance among inmates, and improving their self-esteem.
Many government organizations offer mindfulness training. Mindfulness has gained increasing empirical attention since [18] [] and has been studied often as an intervention for stress reduction.
However, this study included a highly heterogeneous group of meditation styles i. Additionally, while mindfulness is well known to have positive psychological effect among individuals diagnosed with various types of cancers, [] the evidence is unclear regarding its effectiveness in men with prostate cancer.
Thousands of studies on meditation have been conducted, though the methodological quality of some of the studies is poor. Recent reviews have described many of these issues. For example, the practice of mindfulness has also been used to improve athletic performance, [] [31] as a beneficial intervention for children with special needs and their caregivers, [] [] [] as a viable treatment option for people with insomnia [] [] an effective intervention for healthy aging, [] [] [] as a strategy for managing dermatological conditions [] and as a useful intervention during early pregnancy.
When exposed to pain from heating, the brain scans of the mindfulness meditation participants by use of functional magnetic resonance imaging showed their brains notice the pain equally, however it does not get converted to a perceived pain signal.
Research has also investigated mindful movements and mindful exercises for different patient populations. Research studies have also focused on the effects of mindfulness on the brain using neuroimaging techniques, physiological measures and behavioral tests.
Grey matter concentrations in brain regions that regulate emotion, self-referential processing, learning and memory processes have shown changes in density following MBSR.
Further, a direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes.
Mindfulness as a trait, distinguished from mindfulness practice has been linked to many outcomes. In an overview, [36] Keng, Smoski, and Robins summarize: "Trait mindfulness has been associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, agreeableness, conscientiousness, vitality, self esteem, empathy, sense of autonomy, competence, optimism, and pleasant affect.
A study found links between dispositional mindfulness and prosocial behavior. The mechanisms that make people less or more mindful have been researched less than the effects of mindfulness programmes, so little is known about which components of mindfulness practice are relevant for promoting mindfulness.
For example, meta-analyses have shown that mindfulness practice does increase mindfulness when compared to active control groups. It could also be that mindfulness is dose-dependent and increases with more experience. Some research into other mechanisms has been done. One study [] conceptualized such mechanisms in terms of competition for attention.
In a test of that framework, mindfulness was found to be associated as predicted with having an activated intention to be mindful, with feeling good, and with not being hurried or very busy.
Regarding the relationship between feeling good and being mindful, a different study [] found that causality probably works both ways: feeling good increases mindfulness, and mindfulness increases feeling good.
One theory suggests an additional mechanism termed as reperceiving. Reperceiving is the beneficial effect that comes after the process of being mindful after all the intention, attention, and attitude has been experienced. Through reperceiving there is a shift in perspective.
Reperceiving permits disassociation from thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, and allows one to exist with them instead of being defined by them. Many of the above cited review studies also indicate the necessity for more high-quality research in this field such as conducting intervention studies using larger sample sizes, the use of more randomized controlled studies and the need for providing more methodological details in reported studies.
Experimental methods using randomised samples, though, suggest that mindfulness as a state or temporary practice can influence felt emotions such as disgust and promote abstract decision-making.
Several issues pertaining to the assessment of mindfulness have also been identified including the current use of self-report questionnaires. Various scholars have criticized how mindfulness has been defined or represented in recent Western psychology publications. The popularization of mindfulness as a "commodity" [web 29] has been criticized, being termed "McMindfulness" by some critics.
According to Purser and Loy, mindfulness is not being used as a means to awaken to insight in the "unwholesome roots of greed, ill will and delusion," [web 30] but reshaped into a "banal, therapeutic, self-help technique" that has the opposite effect of reinforcing those passions.
More than 60, books for sale on Amazon have a variant of "mindfulness" in their title, touting the benefits of Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating, Mindful Teaching, Mindful Therapy, Mindful Leadership, Mindful Finance, a Mindful Nation, and Mindful Dog Owners, to name just a few.
Buddhist commentators have criticized the movement as being presented as equivalent to Buddhist practice, while in reality it is very possibly denatured with undesirable consequences, such as being ungrounded in the traditional reflective morality and therefore, astray from traditional Buddhist ethics.
Criticisms suggest it to be either de-moralized or re-moralized into clinically based ethics. The conflict is often presented with concern to the teacher's credentials and qualifications, rather than the student's actual practice.
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New York: Hyperion, p. lxiv advises to use CD's with guided mindfulness practices: "Almost everybody finds it easier, when embarking for the first time on a daily meditation practice, to listen to an instructor-guided audio program and let it "carry them along" in the early stages, until they get the hang of it from the inside, rather than attempting to follow instructions from a book, however clear and detailed they may be.
Brill's Indological Library, 7. By over-emphasizing the nonjudgmental nature of mindfulness and arguing that our problems stem from conceptuality, contemporary authors are in danger of leading to a one-sided understanding of mindfulness as a form of therapeutically helpful spacious quietness.
I think that it is important not to lose sight that mindfulness is not just a therapeutic technique but is a natural capacity that plays a central role in the cognitive process.
It is this aspect that seems to be ignored when mindfulness is reduced to a form of nonjudgmental present-centered form of awareness of one's experiences. This was made possible through interpreting sati as a state of "bare awareness"—the unmediated, non-judgmental perception of things "as they are," uninflected by prior psychological, social, or cultural conditioning.
This notion of mindfulness is at variance with premodern Buddhist epistemologies in several respects. Traditional Buddhist practices are oriented more toward acquiring "correct view" and proper ethical discernment, rather than "no view" and a non-judgmental attitude.
But when it is used in relation to meditation practice, we have no word in English that precisely captures what it refers to. An early translator cleverly drew upon the word mindfulness, which is not even in my dictionary.
This has served its role admirably, but it does not preserve the connection with memory, sometimes needed to make sense of a passage.
That is, a capacity of attention and awareness oriented to the present moment that varies in degree within and between individuals, and can be assessed empirically and independent of religious, spiritual, or cultural beliefs.
Bedekar, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. Two volumes. See Thanissaro, Other discourses that describe the full four tetrads can be found in the Samyutta Nikaya 's Anapana-samyutta Ch.
The one-tetrad exposition of anapanasati is found, for instance, in the Kayagata-sati Sutta MN ; Thanissaro, , the Maha-satipatthana Sutta DN 22; Thanissaro, and the Satipatthana Sutta MN 10; Thanissaro, b. Nyanaponika spent his last ten years living with and being cared for by Bodhi.
Bodhi refers to Nyanaponika as "my closest kalyāṇamitta in my life as a monk. See Sharf , Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience. As such, this form of meditation requires no particular religious or cultural belief system.
Thus, Western researchers and clinicians who have introduced mindfulness practice into mental health treatment programs usually teach these skills independently of the religious and cultural traditions of their origins Kabat-Zinn, ; Linehan, b.
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An Erratum to this article was published on 10 April It is proposed that the mechanism through which mindfulness meditation exerts its effects is a process of enhanced self-regulation, including attention control, emotion regulation and self-awareness.
Research on mindfulness meditation faces a number of important challenges in study design that limit the interpretation of existing studies. Mindfulness practice enhances attention. Mindfulness practice improves emotion regulation and reduces stress. Fronto-limbic networks involved in these processes show various patterns of engagement by mindfulness meditation.
Meditation practice has the potential to affect self-referential processing and improve present-moment awareness. The default mode networks — including the midline prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex, which support self-awareness — could be altered following mindfulness training.
Mindfulness meditation has potential for the treatment of clinical disorders and might facilitate the cultivation of a healthy mind and increased well-being.
Future research into mindfulness meditation should use randomized and actively controlled longitudinal studies with large sample sizes to validate previous findings. The effects of mindfulness practice on neural structure and function need to be linked to behavioural performance, such as cognitive, affective and social functioning, in future research.
The complex mental state of mindfulness is likely to be supported by the large-scale brain networks; future work should take this into account rather than being restricted to activations in single brain areas. Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation — practiced widely for the reduction of stress and promotion of health — exerts beneficial effects on physical and mental health, and cognitive performance.
Recent neuroimaging studies have begun to uncover the brain areas and networks that mediate these positive effects. However, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear, and it is apparent that more methodologically rigorous studies are required if we are to gain a full understanding of the neuronal and molecular bases of the changes in the brain that accompany mindfulness meditation.
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