Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the act of paying full conscious attention to whatever you're doing in the present moment; it's the act of being right where you are fully present in this moment of now.

Riva Greenberg: 10 Tips For Mindfulness: The Healing Power Doctors Forget Riva Greenberg 2010

Mindfulness is not a bad thing, and making up rules to make one's life more interesting can be a good thing.

Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008

Mindfulness is not a bad thing, and making up rules to make one's life more interesting can be a good thing.

Counting Your Way to Safety Heather McDougal 2008

He developed a standardized teaching method called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR that introduced multitudes of adults to mindfulness meditation and yoga as a way to improve their capacity to deal with stress, chronic pain and illness.

Ramaa Reddy Raghavan: Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 2011

He developed a standardized teaching method called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR that introduced multitudes of adults to mindfulness meditation and yoga as a way to improve their capacity to deal with stress, chronic pain and illness.

Ramaa Reddy Raghavan: Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 2011

A 2007 study called Mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference by Norman Farb at the University of Toronto, along with six other scientists, broke new ground in our understanding of mindfulness from a neuroscience perspective.

David Rock: How Often Are We on Mental Autopilot? You Might Be Surprised David Rock 2010

A 2007 study called Mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference by Norman Farb at the University of Toronto, along with six other scientists, broke new ground in our understanding of mindfulness from a neuroscience perspective.

David Rock: How Often Are We on Mental Autopilot? You Might Be Surprised David Rock 2010

Using a meditative practice called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, Isicoff learned to acknowledge her pain, rather than fight it.

BUDDHA LESSONS 2008

A while back, I listened to this great audio program called Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn who founded a stress reduction centre at some medical school/hospital somewhere for people with chronic and terminal conditions and in it, he talks about mindfulness and being in the moment.

Catgirls, postcards, masturbation and the future. Elizabeth McClung 2008

He developed a therapy technique called Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MiCBT), which can be used to help gamblers shake off their addiction (see box).

TODAYonline 2010