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  • Mindfulness is the act of paying full conscious attention to whatever you're doing in the present moment; it's the act of being right where you are fully present in this moment of now.

    Riva Greenberg: 10 Tips For Mindfulness: The Healing Power Doctors Forget Riva Greenberg 2010

  • Mindfulness is not a bad thing, and making up rules to make one's life more interesting can be a good thing.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Mindfulness is not a bad thing, and making up rules to make one's life more interesting can be a good thing.

    Counting Your Way to Safety Heather McDougal 2008

  • He developed a standardized teaching method called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR that introduced multitudes of adults to mindfulness meditation and yoga as a way to improve their capacity to deal with stress, chronic pain and illness.

    Ramaa Reddy Raghavan: Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 2011

  • He developed a standardized teaching method called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR that introduced multitudes of adults to mindfulness meditation and yoga as a way to improve their capacity to deal with stress, chronic pain and illness.

    Ramaa Reddy Raghavan: Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 2011

  • A 2007 study called Mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference by Norman Farb at the University of Toronto, along with six other scientists, broke new ground in our understanding of mindfulness from a neuroscience perspective.

    David Rock: How Often Are We on Mental Autopilot? You Might Be Surprised David Rock 2010

  • A 2007 study called Mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference by Norman Farb at the University of Toronto, along with six other scientists, broke new ground in our understanding of mindfulness from a neuroscience perspective.

    David Rock: How Often Are We on Mental Autopilot? You Might Be Surprised David Rock 2010

  • Using a meditative practice called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, Isicoff learned to acknowledge her pain, rather than fight it.

    BUDDHA LESSONS 2008

  • A while back, I listened to this great audio program called Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn who founded a stress reduction centre at some medical school/hospital somewhere for people with chronic and terminal conditions and in it, he talks about mindfulness and being in the moment.

    Catgirls, postcards, masturbation and the future. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • He developed a therapy technique called Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MiCBT), which can be used to help gamblers shake off their addiction (see box).

    TODAYonline 2010

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