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The nature of consciousness is a subject of enormous interest to both science and religion. Modern, secular mindfulness techniques have their foundation in ancient Buddhist thought, but it's only recently that neuroscientists have given serious attention to what actually happens in the brain when we meditate.
Dr Sara Lazar is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and leads the Lazar lab for Meditation Research at Massachusetts General hospital. She is one of the world's leading researchers into the impact of mindfulness techniques on the brain, and has been a yoga and meditation practitioner since 1994.
The Venerable Thubten Dondrub is resident teacher at Buddha House in Adelaide and has been an international teacher with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition for nearly 50 years.
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You can't open a magazine these days without seeing something about "mindfulness." The concept has become so ubiquitous, a friend asked me the other day if its popularity was just a fad.
As a social psychologist who has studied mindfulness for nearly four decades, I am certain that it is not. Unlike, say, the hula hoop, mindfulness actually is enlivening, and it can improve our lives greatly in measurable ways.
But I do see a risk in its newfound currency: The idea of mindfulness could become so watered down or misrepresented that we fail to fully appreciate its ability to better our lives — that we become mindless about mindfulness.
Mindfulness is often described as the ability to be in the moment, to be in the present, to be aware. The problem with this is that everyone thinks they are already aware. Some people meditate to become more mindful. Meditation is really just a tool that leads to post-meditative mindfulness. Although it's a good tool, it's a tool nonetheless, not the end.
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Dedicado a divulgar los mejores conocimientos y prácticas de administración de las organizaciones y empresas.
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From food cravings to telling off grumpy colleagues, some habits are hard to avoid even on our best days. We've rounded up these mindfulness reads so you can flourish in every facet of life—even during those tough times.
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Mindfulness is an attitude to living that helps you be more open, compassionate, and self-aware. It involves deliberately directing your attention away from autopilot and negative, judging thoughts, allowing you to be more present and connected to whatever is happening right now. It’s not a big stretch to imagine that more mindful people might make better relationship partners. And now there is clear research support for this relationship. A meta-analysis published in the Journal of Human Sciences and Extension last year found that higher levels of mindfulness predict happier, more satisfying relationships.
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Don't try to be perfect, just try to be better than you were yesterday.
¿Quien no ha sentido a lo largo de sus días esta tensión o sensación de desarmonía o disonancia psicológica? Momentos en que sentimos que algo no anda bien…
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Mindfulness adapts Buddhist meditation to everyday life. It seems effective
at managing depression and anxiety, and is taught in schools to boost
resilience and grades. Whilst it can help to share techniques to cope with
stress, this limits the scope for transformation. A fixation on self gets
reinforced, which serves a brutal market system. However, if mindfulness in
schools were to cultivate "moral and civic virtues," as British MPs suggest
it should, it could foster compassionate "pro-social" action.
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"Si estás atento al presente, el pasado no te distraerá, entonces serás siempre nuevo" decía Facundo Cabral. Hasta hace veinte años, la palabra mindfulness apenas se utilizaba, sin embargo, en Occidente, hoy en día, ésta palabra se está imponiendo al término meditación. Para todos los que practicamos meditación y queremos que, por el bien de…
La meditación es una técnica muy valiosa si se usa de forma integrada. Este relato psicológico nos describe un caso grave de evasión espiritual
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“Ultimate wellbeing has nothing to do with what's outside us,” says Daniel Goleman. What would happen if we could fully take charge of our own wellbeing... and what's the neuroscience that will help make it so?
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The senior leader I’m coaching feels stuck. For decades, Angela prospered in operational roles by leading with her brilliance. She was the expert, dogmatic about her opinions (and typically right), and if needed, she knew how to bully her views to the top. Yet her new role as beverage company COO required her to “play ...read more.
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Simple shifts to reduce anxiety and stress.
El sufrimiento es opcional y puede reducirse en nuestra vida. Es la consecuencia de creernos separados y ajenos al amor que somos
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La meditación nos ayuda a focalizar nuestra atención en la paz y el silencio que somos y que habita en el espacio entre pensamientos
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Estamos explorando un universo aún desconocido. Algunos lo llamamos conciencia, esencia, gran mente… Y más allá de como lo nombremos, estamos señalando a una calidad de la experiencia más profunda y genuina que las que estamos acostumbrados a vivir desde nuestra identificación con la mente personal.
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'Mindfulness' es una palabra mágica. Si la buscan en Google obtendrán nada menos que 39.600.000 resultados. Este término nacido en Boston se traduce como "atención plena... vía @agirregabiria
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El arte de gestionar tu atención sin esfuerzo mejorando algunos hábitos
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Dándole muchas vueltas, me he dado cuenta de que nuestros grandes momentos en la vida son Mindfulness porque si no, no tendrían sentido. Y si no lo son, es que la estamos perdiendo a pedazos. Y que la mayoría de problemas y pequeños conflictos que tenemos se deben a no tener esa actitud.
Si focalizas tu atención en dos cosas al mismo tiempo lo más probable es que ninguna de las dos salga bien. Hay tantos momentos en la vida que requieren tener todos los sentidos para vivirlos, que nos arriesgamos a perderlos…
No se puede amar sin notar que amas… Ni bailar. Ni escribir. Ni nada que queramos que se fije en nosotros y perdure. En el fondo, no se puede vivir nada intensamente sin una actitud
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