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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. [2]
Mindfulness Meditation. Four components of mindfulness meditation have been proposed to describe much of the mechanism of action by which mindfulness meditation may work: attention regulation, body awareness, emotion regulation, and change in perspective on the self. [4] All of the components described above are connected to each other.
Contemplative neuroscience (or contemplative science) is an emerging field of research that focuses on the changes within the mind, brain, and body as a result of contemplative practices, such as mindfulness-based meditation, samatha meditation, dream yoga, yoga nidra, tai chi or yoga.
Buddhist psychology emphasizes the primacy of immediate experience. In the training of a contemplative psychotherapist, theoretical training is balanced with experiential training. By studying and experiencing his or her own mind, the contemplative therapist can then study and experience accurately the mind of others while engaging in ...
The tradition of mindful cognitive learning has been an important part of Buddhist and Taoist practices and tradition for thousands of years in East Asia, it is an important component of Traditional Chinese medicine and used extensively in Daoyin, Taiqi, Qigong and Wuxing heqidao as a therapy based on traditional intersectional medicine for prevention and treatment of mind and body disease ...
Ellen Jane Langer (/ ˈ l æ ŋ ər /; born March 25, 1947) is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University; in 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. [1] [2] She is widely known as the "mother of mindfulness" [3] and the "mother of positive psychology" [4].
Mindfulness is a peer-reviewed academic journal on psychology published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal's founding editor, beginning with the first issue in 2010, was Nirbhay N. Singh. [1] As of 2022, he was continuing as editor-in-chief.
The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is a psychological measurement that explores mindfulness. FFMQ is based on five independently developed mindfulness questionnaires that are bound together in a factor analytic study.