"Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention to the present-moment experience without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training."
This subfield investigates the role that mindfulness and awareness play in persevering through challenging situations.
What is Mindfulness: This topic covers the basic definition and concept of mindfulness, its history, and its various forms.
Benefits of Mindfulness: This topic covers the various ways mindfulness can benefit an individual's physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Mindfulness Meditation: This topic covers the different techniques and practices used to incorporate mindfulness meditation into one's daily routine.
Mindful Breathing: This topic covers the importance of focused breathing in mindfulness practice.
Mindful Walking: This topic covers the practice of walking with awareness and how it can support mindfulness practice.
Mindful Eating: This topic covers the practice of mindful eating and how it can support healthier eating habits.
Mindful Communication: This topic covers how to communicate mindfully in one's personal and professional relationships.
Mindful Listening: This topic covers the importance of active listening and how it can support deeper connections in personal and professional relationships.
Mindful Decision Making: This topic covers how mindfulness can support better decision-making skills.
Mindfulness in the Workplace: This topic covers how mindfulness can improve workplace productivity, reduce stress, and support positive work relationships.
Mindfulness in Education: This topic covers the benefits of incorporating mindfulness into the classroom and how it can support students' academic and social-emotional development.
Mindfulness and Stress Management: This topic covers how mindfulness can help individuals cope with stress and anxiety.
Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery: This topic covers the use of mindfulness as a tool in addiction recovery.
Mindfulness in Aging: This topic covers how mindfulness can support healthy aging and improve well-being in older adults.
Mindfulness and Compassion: This topic covers the relationship between mindfulness and compassion and how they can be cultivated together.
Breath-centered mindfulness: Focusing your attention on your breath, inhaling and exhaling in a gentle and steady way.
Body-centered mindfulness: Bringing your attention to different parts of your body and observing any physical sensations, with acceptance and non-judgment.
Single-pointed concentration: Concentrating on a chosen object or idea with full focus, excluding all other distractions.
Loving-kindness mindfulness: Practicing compassion, love, and happiness towards oneself and others around us.
Walking meditation: Paying attention to the sensations as we walk with purpose and intention, taking care not to rush or ignore our surroundings.
Sound-centered mindfulness: Paying attention to the sounds in our environment, noticing any emotions or reactions they may evoke and letting them pass.
Observation Meditation: Observing thoughts and feelings from an objective distance, focusing solely on understanding them rather than reacting to them.
Body scan mindfulness: Identifying the physical sensations present in each part of our body, with the sole purpose of generating a positive attitude about our physical form.
Gratitude mindfulness: Initiate acknowledging and feeling thankful for moments of peace, love, and prosperity in our lives.
Reflective mindfulness: Reflecting on difficult emotions and experiences, with the aim of gaining insight and changing the way we perceive them in the future.
"Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan meditation techniques."
"Individuals who have contributed to the popularity of mindfulness in the modern Western context include Thích Nhất Hạnh, Herbert Benson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Richard J. Davidson, and Sam Harris."
"Clinical psychology and psychiatry since the 1970s have developed a number of therapeutic applications based on mindfulness for helping people experiencing a variety of psychological conditions."
"Mindfulness practice has been employed to reduce depression, stress, anxiety, and in the treatment of drug addiction."
"Mindfulness programs have been adopted within schools, prisons, hospitals, veterans' centers, and other environments."
"Mindfulness programs have been applied for additional outcomes such as for healthy aging, weight management, athletic performance, helping children with special needs, and as an intervention during the perinatal period."
"Studies have shown a positive relationship between trait mindfulness (which can be cultivated through the practice of mindfulness-based interventions) and psychological health."
"The practice of mindfulness appears to provide therapeutic benefits to people with psychiatric disorders, including moderate benefits to those with psychosis."
"Studies also indicate that rumination and worry contribute to a variety of mental disorders, and that mindfulness-based interventions can enhance trait mindfulness and reduce both rumination and worry."
"Evidence suggests that engaging in mindfulness meditation may influence physical health."
"The psychological habit of repeatedly dwelling on stressful thoughts appears to intensify the physiological effects of the stressor... with the potential to lead to physical health related clinical manifestations."
"Research indicates that mindfulness may favorably influence the immune system as well as inflammation, which can consequently impact physical health."
"Mindfulness appears to bring about lowered activity of the default mode network of the brain, and thereby contribute towards a lowered risk of developing conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease."
"Critics have questioned both the commercialization and the over-marketing of mindfulness for health benefits—as well as emphasizing the need for more randomized controlled studies, for more methodological details in reported studies and for the use of larger sample-sizes."
"While mindfulness-based interventions may be effective for youth, research still needs to determine the most appropriate methods in which mindfulness could be introduced and delivered in schools."