Mindfulness: The Issues and Prospects

سال انتشار: 1398
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Mindfulness is an art perfected in the East and re-imported from the West. Mindfulness as Man’s oldest getaway has been around for over 5,000 years. The Ancient Vedas of India were the first to document meditation, about1,500 BCE. Meditation gained ground as a Buddhist spiritual practice between 500-600 BCE. By 20 BCE, spiritual exercises involving mindfulness had spread to the west and ere documented in early Greek texts, but the practice was not embraced by early Christianity.Vipassna meditation, which originated in India 2,500 years ago, saw a resurgence in Burma in the 1950s. This practice focuses on self-transformation by mindful awareness and it can be considered as the basis for secular modern meditation practices. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of Massachusetts in 1979 to help treat patients with chronic illnesses – and since then, meditation has been widely studied and increasingly applied for its therapeutic effects The word mindfulness may be used to describe a psychological trait, a practice of cultivating mindfulness (mindfulness meditation), a mode or state of awareness, or a psychological process (Germer, Siegel, & Fulton, 2005). One of the most commonly cited definitions of mindfulness is the awareness that arises through paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally (Kabat-Zinn, 1994).Mindfulness has been described as involving three components: intention, attention, and attitude (Shapiro et al. 2006).Mechanisms of mindfulness include focused attention, decentering, and emotion regulation (Grabovac et al. 2011; Holzel et al. 2011). Mindfulness is characterized by Clarity of Awareness, Non-Conceptual, Non-Discriminatory Awareness, and Empirical Stance towards Reality, Present Oriented Consciousness and Flexibility of Awareness and Attention.Mindfulness is not vigilance or attention by voluntary focus on an object or an idea; it is not controlled processing in overall terms. When mindful, we are in fact varying the stimulus field in an active search for novelty. Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find and, knock, and it will be opened to you. This requires us to overcome the desires to reduce uncertainty in daily life, to override automatic behaviour, and to engage less frequently in evaluations of self and others than required. Mindfulness means not only, moment to moment awareness of present events, but also, remembering to be aware of something or to do something at a designated time in the future .Mindfulness is an indispensable factor in determining individual performance and shaping our learning experiences, it is the route to Excellence.Being aware of the fullness of our experience awakens us to the inner world of our mind and immerses us completely in our lives. People who live mindfully catch problems before they become serious, because they pay attention to their inner voice: a voice that includes intuition, wisdom, and a subtle but very sophisticated analysis of what is going on in the world, according to Boyatzis and McKee (2002).My recent work in the field of health psychology and positive psychology has provided me some insights and very definitive philosophy of a non- sectarian and non- political concept of health with strong relationships with western models as well as eastern models of mindfulness and yoga. Some of my colleagues have utilized various interventions strategies using CBT in enhancing the adjustment, health and happiness of various segments of society. The present presentation draws a lot from wisdom and practices of lot of people and merges some of the recent researches in the field of Psychology. I feel in the endless search of concepts, philosophies, theories, and intervention models; this conference will prove to be highly beneficial and productive in answering some questions and raising new issues.In my presentation, I plan to discuss the philosophical emergence of mindfulnessin connection with consciousness, therapy, and research. It may lead to a lively dialogue among the practitioners of psychotherapy, Hypnosis, Health and Excellence

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