Mindfulness

On Being in the Moment By Ivy Helman

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

Time.  We mark years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We mark seasons.  We mark life events. ... more Time.  We mark years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We mark seasons.  We mark life events.  We live our lives in time: both circular and linear.  Time began before we did and time will continue after we cannot experience it any further.  Some say we repeat time with rebirth.  Others suggest that we only have one lifetime of which we should make the most.  Still others suggest there is existence outside of time with concepts like infinity and eternal life. 

Encouraging Meditative Experiences through Respiratory-Musical Interaction

by Jay Vidyarthi

Mindfulness predicts less texting while driving among young adults: Examining attention-and emotion-regulation motives as potential mediators

by Kendra Robbins-Monteith

The effects of mindfulness on executive processes and autobiographical memory specificity

by Alexandre Heeren

Heeren, A., Van Broeck, N., & Philippot, P. (2009). The effects of mindfulness training on executive processes and autobiographical memory specificity. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 403-409.

Changes in ruminative thinking mediate the clinical benefits of mindfulness: Preliminary findings

by Alexandre Heeren

Heeren, A. & Philippot, P. (2011). Changes in ruminative thinking mediate the clinical benefits of mindfulness: Preliminary findings. Mindfulness, 2, 8-13.

Les interventions basées sur la pleine conscience: Une revue conceptuelle et empirique [Mindfulness-based Interventions: A conceptual and empirical review]

by Alexandre Heeren

Heeren, A. & Philippot, P. (2010). Les interventions basées sur la pleine conscience: Une revue conceptuelle et empirique [Mindfulness-based Interventions: A conceptual and empirical review]. Revue Quebecoise de Psychologie, 31, 37-61

Cross-cultural validity of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire: Adaptation and validation in a French-speaking sample

by Alexandre Heeren

Heeren, A., Douilliez, C., Peschard, V., Debrauwere, L., & Philippot, P. (2011). Cross-cultural consistency of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire: Adaptation and validation in a French sample. European Review of Applied Psychology, 61, 147-151.

Meditation-State Functional Connectivity (msFC): Strengthening of the Dorsal Attention Network and Beyond

by Jeffrey Greeson

published in 'Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine'

The reflective practice of Samurai educators

by Katie Thomas

Omgaan met chronische pijn: Blijven vechten tegen de bierkaai of aanvaarden?

by Ann Meulders

Meulders, A. (2011). Psychologie & Gezondheid, 39 (4), 256-257.

Book review: Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing

by Thomas Roberts

Neural correlates of focused attention during a brief mindfulness induction

by Elliot Berkman

With Janna Dickenson, Joanna Arch, and Matthew Lieberman in SCAN

Mindfulness meditation—the practice of attending to present-moment experience and allowing emotions and thoughts to... more Mindfulness meditation—the practice of attending to present-moment experience and allowing emotions and thoughts to pass without judgment—has shown to be beneficial in clinical populations across diverse outcomes. However, the basic neural mechanisms by which mindfulness operates and relates to everyday outcomes in novices remain unexplored. Focused attention is a common mindfulness induction where practitioners focus on specific physical sensations, typically the breath. The present study explores the neural mechanisms of this common mindfulness induction among novice practitioners. Healthy novice participants completed a brief task with both mindful attention (focused breathing) and control (unfocused attention) conditions during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Relative to the control condition, focused breathing recruited an attention network including parietal and prefrontal structures, and trait-level mindfulness during this comparison also correlated with parietal activation. Results suggest that the neural mechanisms of a brief mindfulness induction are related to attention processes in novices and that trait mindfulness positively moderates this activation.

Believing is seeing

by Michael Pirson

Believing is Seeing: Using Mindlessness (Mindfully) to Improve Visual Acuity

by Michael Pirson

Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: Challenging the Limits of Visual Acuity

by Michael Pirson

The Psychological Significance of Psalm 1

by John Uebersax

An ancient and venerable tradition holds that the first Psalm is the key to unlocking the meaning of the Bible. ... more An ancient and venerable tradition holds that the first Psalm is the key to unlocking the meaning of the Bible.  Application of psychological exegesis to the Psalm readily supports this view.

Being present in the face of existential threat: The role of trait mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to mortality salience.

by Philip Cozzolino

" Faz a ti mesmo aquilo que farias aos outros": estilo de vinculação como determinante da compaixão e auto-compaixão

by Jorge Fontinha

Incidental exposure to no-smoking signs primes craving for cigarettes

by Brian Earp

Earp, B. D., Dill, B., Harris, J., Ackerman, J., and Bargh, J. (2011). Incidental exposure to no-smoking signs primes craving for cigarettes: An ironic effect of unconscious semantic processing? Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology, Vol 2, No 1, 12-23.

The present study tests whether incidental exposure to no-smoking signs may ironically boost craving for cigarettes in... more The present study tests whether incidental exposure to no-smoking signs may ironically boost craving for cigarettes in smokers. Smokers viewed photographs in which no-smoking signs were either incon- spicuously embedded (prime) or edited out (control). Participants then used a joystick to make quick approach vs. avoid motions while viewing smoking-related and neutral stimuli on a computer screen (Chen & Bargh, 1999). We hypothesized that primed smokers, but not controls, would show an automatic reach bias toward the smoking-related stimuli. The data supported our prediction. Possible mechanisms for the effect are discussed, as well as implications for public health policy, negation-based social campaigns in general, and our understanding of the unconscious processing of semantic information.

Mindful Administration of IS Security Policies

by James Parrish