{"id":11,"date":"2018-01-11T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2018-07-24T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:30:20","slug":"mindfulness-online","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/mindfulness-online\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Mindfulness<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cYou can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.\u201d
Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/em><\/p>\n

Jon Kabat-Zinn, who introduced mindfulness into mainstream medicine and western society, has defined mindfulness meditation as:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe awareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Besides a type of meditation, Mindfulness is also the human ability to focus on and be aware of the present moment experience, paying attention to what is happening in our inner world<\/strong> (thoughts and feelings), in the body<\/strong> (physical sensations), and in the outside world (sounds, visuals)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them\u2014without believing, for instance, that there\u2019s a \u201cright\u201d or \u201cwrong\u201d way to think or feel in a given moment.<\/p>\n

Cultivating mindfulness can improve our mental and physical wellbeing, enabling us to become more conscious of others and ourselves. By practicing mindfulness we will have a clearer understanding about the mind and body connection, which is essential for developing a more harmonious, efficient and creative relationship with the world and ourselves.<\/p>\n

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Mindfulness meditation gives us a time-space in our lives when we can suspend judgment, explore our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind and approach our experience with warmth and kindness.<\/p>\n

How does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Has it ever happened to you to find yourself lost in thoughts brooding over past events while your mind is making judgments, assumptions, and criticisms?<\/p>\n

Has it ever happened to you to find yourself planning the future and feeling worried about it? These are common experiences that we as human beings are familiar with.<\/p>\n

In both situations we are not living the present moment<\/strong> because we are busy thinking about either the past or the future. Our mind<\/strong> is engaged in thinking, reflecting, daydreaming, planning, anticipating, worrying, forgetting, remembering, and so on.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness plays its effective role exactly when the mind is generating a series of thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By training the mind to pay attention to the moment-to-moment experience, we can help to alleviate the stressful and repetitive considerations and judgments our mind makes by default.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness can be cultivated through a series of formal and informal practices. Formal practices<\/strong> are called meditations such as being seated, walking, lying down, standing, and moving.<\/p>\n

Informal practice<\/strong> refers to any activity that we do in daily life with full attention. Any simple routine activity can be considered a mindfulness exercise when we bring full awareness to it such as having a shower, doing the washing up, reading, etc.<\/p>\n

The best way to know what mindfulness is to try it for yourself!<\/strong><\/p>\n


Who is it for and where it should be practiced?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mindfulness can be beneficial for people from different walks of life and different age groups (from children to older adults) and it can be practiced in groups or individually.<\/p>\n

It can be practiced in different places such as the home, hospitals, schools, and workplaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Mindfulness<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cYou can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.\u201d
Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/em><\/p>\n

Jon Kabat-Zinn, who introduc…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindfactory.org\/psychologist\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}