Meditation & Mindfulness
What meditation and mindfulness mean and how they differ: the body scan, loving-kindness, zazen, the five hindrances, sati and the Anapanasati Sutta, MBSR and MBCT, how the practices reached the West, and what trials show and do not show.
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MEDITATION · FACT
Mindfulness as an innate ability
Mindful calls mindfulness an innate ability, which meditation cultivates and brief pauses in daily life can build too. On that view, meditation is one way to cultivate mindfulness, not another name for it, so the two words are not the same thing.
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9 lessons.
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- 01
Introduction: Meditation and Mindfulness
Sorting the words: meditation, mindfulness, relaxation and breathwork · Words you will meet again: two attention styles and mantra
- 02
What Meditation Is
Common myths, corrected · Focused attention, open monitoring and the three families · Beyond attention: kindness, imagery and lying-down practice
- 03
What Mindfulness Means
Three things people mean by mindfulness · The wandering mind, in practice and in daily life · Open monitoring and meta-awareness
- 04
Where Meditation Comes From
The traditions at a glance · Teachers who carried practice West · A timeline of the crossing West, 1893 to 1990
- 05
Where Mindfulness Comes From
From sati to mindfulness · MBSR and MBCT · Hospitals, schools, workplaces, the military and apps · Mindfulness of breathing in the early texts
- 06
Sitting Meditation
Posture and anchors as teachers describe them · Zen sitting: zazen, shikantaza and the two schools · When the mind rebels: the five hindrances · Retreats and teachers
- 07
Mindfulness in Practice
Formal and informal practice, mindful movement and walking · Basic exercises at a glance: breath counting, body scan, mindful eating · RAIN: staying with a difficult moment
- 08
How Meditation Might Work
How might it work? Stress, attention and the default mode network · The claim and the author · From argument to practice, and the objections
- 09
What the Evidence Shows
What trials show, and how strong · When meditation is hard: adverse effects · The critiques of the mindfulness movement
What you'll be able to do 17 objectives, from the pack's lessons
- Say what meditation, mindfulness and relaxation techniques are, and tell them apart, including watching the breath (mindfulness) from changing it (breathwork).
- Say in plain words what focused attention, open monitoring and a mantra are, and where the two attention styles are found.
- Correct the common myths about what meditation is and what it requires.
- Sort a described practice into a family of the 2015 scheme, and describe loving-kindness, compassion, guided imagery, non-dual practice and yoga nidra.
- Explain what researchers mean by the word mindfulness, and describe how they study the wandering mind and open monitoring.
- Tell the main meditation traditions apart from short descriptions, and say who carried practice to the West and when.
- Explain what sati meant in the early texts and where the bare-attention reading came from, and what scholars such as Sharf and Bodhi argue.
- Describe MBSR and MBCT, tell them apart, and say what trials and guidelines report about mindfulness programs in schools and workplaces.
- Describe how the early texts set out mindfulness of breathing: its discourse and opening scene, its sixteen steps in four groups, and where else it is taught.
- Describe how teachers frame posture, the breath as an anchor, Zen sitting, the five hindrances and retreats, including organizers' suitability statements.
- Tell formal from informal mindfulness practice, and describe the formal practices MBSR teaches, including mindful movement and walking.
- Identify the basic attention exercises, from mindfulness of breathing to mindful eating, from a short description.
- Set out RAIN as its teachers describe it, and say whose version is meant.
- Describe proposed mechanisms such as decentering and the body's stress routes, and the limits that brain-study authors state.
- Identify Robert Wright's stated positions as public sources report them, how they tie to practice, and the main objections and his replies.
- Summarize what trials and reviews show and do not show about meditation and mindfulness, how strong the evidence is, and what is known about adverse effects.
- Identify the main critiques of the mindfulness movement and the replies made to them.
- Cards
- 259
- Lessons
- 9
- Version
- 1.2.1
- Language
- English
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