Mindfulness Definition | What Is Mindfulness - Greater Good
2024年9月19日 · Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a …
Five Ways Mindfulness Meditation Is Good for Your Health
2018年10月24日 · In several studies, mindfulness meditation appeared to increase levels of T-cells or T-cell activity in patients with HIV or breast cancer. This suggests that mindfulness could play a role in fighting cancer and other diseases that call upon immune cells. Indeed, in people suffering from cancer, mindfulness appears to improve a variety of ...
Mindfulness | Greater Good
2024年10月10日 · Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a …
Seven Ways Mindfulness Can Help Teachers - Greater Good
2015年3月30日 · Mindfulness helps strengthen our relationship with students Research on effective classroom management points to the importance of teacher-student relationships. We can set up great management systems involving guidelines and limits, but if our students don’t trust and respect us or think we don’t respect them, we’re in for some challenges.
Mindfulness Quiz - Greater Good
The practice of mindfulness has been linked to happiness, health, and psychological well-being, but many of us may not know exactly what it is, let alone how to cultivate it. The quiz below draws on a mindfulness scale developed by researchers at La Salle University and Drexel University, led by psychology professor Lee Ann Cardaciotto. Please ...
Three Ways Mindfulness Can Make You Less Biased - Greater Good
2017年5月15日 · 2. Mindfulness helps us decrease our negativity bias. Most of us naturally pay more attention to and react more strongly to negative events than positive events in our lives—a phenomenon called the negativity bias. This is due to our early evolutionary history, where being vigilant counted heavily for our survival.
Why Mindfulness Matters - Greater Good
2010年5月17日 · Why Mindfulness Matters. This month on Greater Good, experts explain the benefits of mindfulness--and how you can cultivate it. It’s been 30 years since Jon Kabat-Zinn launched his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. What began as a bit of a lark—an attempt by a molecular ...
Why We Need Mindfulness at Work - Greater Good
2015年11月4日 · Research suggests that mindfulness training helps make people more compassionate and empathetic toward others. By improving the way people relate to one another, ideally it can change corporate culture for the better, creating a more supportive, friendlier workplace with better relationships.
The State of Mindfulness Science - Greater Good
2017年12月5日 · During the past two decades, more and more scientists have studied mindfulness —a Buddhist-inspired collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Their early findings triggered an enormous amount of enthusiasm for meditation. Sometimes, however, journalists and even ...
Five Ways Mindfulness Helps You Age Better - Greater Good
2023年12月4日 · Mindfulness leads to better overall quality of life What most of us want out of our elder years is a better quality of life—and there is ample evidence that being more mindful can help. For example, one 2023 study measured “trait mindfulness” (how mindful people were in everyday life) within a group of individuals who were mostly over 80 ...