Warning: Twisted academic tone, grab bag of ideas — really curious about mixing psychotherapy and Buddhist mindfulness practices?
A culture of awakening. Should psychotherapies that employ mindfulness techniques incorporate beliefs from which mindfulness practices arose? Some suggest that taken out of their cultural context mindfulness practices are diluted.
Batchelor (1997) has suggested Buddhism is a “culture of [...]
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Out of the vaults. Here are some thoughts about mindfulness and psychotherapy:
A new vantage point. Why is mindfulness, as it has been conceived by Westerners, useful in psychotherapy? One compelling reason may be that it represents a new mode or vantage point, for most Western psychologists, from which to view their experience and the experience [...]
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Mindfulness definitely has exciting applications for use in psychotherapy. Depending on how you conceptualize it, there are certain commonalities between states induced and fostered by both mindfulness and psychotherapy. But what is mindfulness? Here are eleven definitions of mindfulness, mostly from cognitive psychologists, but also from a few Buddhist meditators. (If you’re interested in the [...]
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Posted in mindfulness, research on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I removed the long dormant Psychology News Blog from the list of ‘Psychology Blogs’ and replaced it with the intriguing Brain Blogger: Topics from Multidimensional BioPsychoSocial Perspectives. (How’s that for mission statement?)
One posts at Brain Blogger includes:
Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
Can the mind cure the mind, working on itself? Well, [...]
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Be one of the many many people that have checked out this video. Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist, describes her experience after suffering a massive stroke in her left brain. Her experience, oddly, was ecstatic. A piece about her ran in the New York Times on May 25.
But to really get a sense of [...]
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A preliminary study. Read the excellent article on mindfulness and ADHD at Sharp Brains: The Brain Fitness Authority. It’s written by Dr. David Rabiner, clinical child psychologist at Duke University. In contrast to the recent New York Times piece, it’s a more focussed and nuanced look into possible applications of mindfulness meditation, in this case [...]
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Three Common myths about the brain in a Scientific American article, one involving the common mistake, written about here previously, of confusing correlation and causality.
Myth: We only use 10 percent of our brainpower.
Myth: Some people are left-brained, others right-brained.
This myth has to do with alpha waves — see the following:
We can achieve a deeper sense [...]
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