MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness is cultivating a movement-to-moment awareness. This can be achieved by a particular practice, such as breathing techniques or meditation, however; it is not exclusive to those practices. It allows awareness to exsist without judgement, creating space for emotions to come and go freely without the need to react or attach to them. Through the process of Mindfulness we learn to know the mind, train the mind and free the mind. Mindfulness techniques are being used from the military to fortune 500 companies. Mindfulness changes the structure of the brain, after eight weeks of a Mindfulness-Based -Stress -Reductions practice the hippocampus increased in cortical in thickness, which is responsible for the memory and learning in the brain, as well as emotional regulation.
Some of the benefits include:
-Heightened metacognitive awareness: Being able to step back from emotions and perceive them as occurrences
-Improved working memory
-Reduced emotional reactivity
-Reduced stress
-Managing Physical Pain
-Positive effects on communication
-Enhanced visual attention processing: Better performance of tests of concentration and attention.
-Reduction in negative emotions
-Increased creativity
-Helps prevent aging in the brain
Helps manage:
-Anxiety
-Depression
-High blood pressure
-Cancer
-Sleep issues
Some of the benefits include:
-Heightened metacognitive awareness: Being able to step back from emotions and perceive them as occurrences
-Improved working memory
-Reduced emotional reactivity
-Reduced stress
-Managing Physical Pain
-Positive effects on communication
-Enhanced visual attention processing: Better performance of tests of concentration and attention.
-Reduction in negative emotions
-Increased creativity
-Helps prevent aging in the brain
Helps manage:
-Anxiety
-Depression
-High blood pressure
-Cancer
-Sleep issues