DepressionMeditationNeuroimagingIn recent years, mindfulness-based interventions have become increasingly popular as complementary treatment strategies for a number of medical and psychiatric conditions including depressive spectrum disorders. Mindfulness is a practice in which the objective is to maintain ones ...
Daily Mindfulness Activity:Choose a daily activity—something that you normally do on autopilot without much conscious awareness, such as brushing your teeth, walking the dog, doing the dishes, or eating a meal. For the next week, intentionally pay full attention to what is happening in that mo...
Before we delve into strategies forunplugging from digital distractions, we must understand what they are and how they affect us. Digital distractions take our attention away from the task at hand. They can be notifications from our phones or computers, emails, social media updates, or even the...
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Mindfulness practices have become increasingly popular as complementary therapeutic strategies for a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. This paper provides an overview of three mindfulness interventions that have demonstrated effectiveness for psychiatric symptoms and/or pain. The goal of this ...
This study examined the effects of a 9-month mindfulness teacher training (MTT) program on mindfulness skills, emotion regulation, and psychological well-being among future mindfulness instructors, compared to a control group.Eighty-seven mindfulness instructors-in-training participated in the MTT ...
Economic strategies for observation and training breathing To complement the physiological monitoring and allow observations outside the office and at home, some of the following strategies may be used to observe breathing pattern (rate and expansion of the breath in the body), and suggestion to fac...
contributes to effective strategies for regulating emotions; can help cultivate well-being by adding clarity to present-moment experience; and helps people respond to difficult situations without reacting in automatic ways. The “Resilience through Mindfulness” program includes the following weekly topics:...
Discover simple strategies to improve self-esteem while managing bipolar disorder. “It’s easy for me to buy things for others, but hard for me to accept gifts. I really don’t deserve anything.” Or, “It’s not worth it. I just can’t seem to get my act together these days.” ...
Brightmind offers a guided "journey" through mindfulness instruction that can cover topics like why to practice mindfulness, how to note and label emotions and sensations, and how to adopt basic focus strategies. In addition to daily guided meditations, there are talks, daily community sits, live...