“Why is it that some people are more vulnerable to life’s slings and arrows and others more resilient?” In this eye-opening talk, Richard Davidson discusses how mindfulness can improve well-being and outlines strategies to boost four components of a healthy mind: awareness, connection, insight, and purpose.

Richard Davidson is researching how mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains and what we know about people’s brains of individuals showing more resilience than others. Davidson is Wiliam James and Vilas professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds. His research is focused on the neural bases of emotion and emotional style and methods to promote human flourishing, including meditation and related contemplative practices. #Neuroscience #Wellbeing #MentalHealth Richard Davidson is Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Davidson’s research is focused on the neural bases of emotion and emotional style and methods to promote human flourishing including meditation and related contemplative practices. He has published more than 400 articles and is the co-author of “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” and “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body”, both published by Penguin. Davidson has been recognized for his research through various awards, such as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award and an Established Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD). Davidson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology and has been teaching psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1984. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Dr Neil Bailey, Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre, describes how mindfulness changes our brain to prevent mental illness. Vote on Neil’s video for the 2015 Thinkable Award: http://thinkable.org/submission/2037
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Mindfulness is an effective and side effect free method to treat and prevent mental illness, and improve mental health. Our research will test the changes in brain activity that take place as a result of mindfulness, helping us further understand how mindfulness can be used to improve our lives. Eventually, we hope to establish mindfulness practice as part of the core curriculum in high schools, so that every teenager benefits from a reduced risk of mental illness.

Scientists think the benefits provided by mindfulness come from an improved ability to direct our attention, so we can focus on the moment, rather than being distracted by worries about the future or regrets about the past. This improved attention is almost certainly the result of neuroplastic change. However, no one has systematically examined the effect of these changes on brain activity during the direction of attention. The current research project will examine changes in neural inhibition (the brain’s ability to quiet non-relevant regions) as a result of mindfulness practice. Understanding these changes will help us understand how mindfulness works to improve attention.

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MINDFULNESS AT WORK – 5 Tips To Being Mindful in the Workplace // How To Be Mindful At Work

Mindfulness in the workplace – it’s a great idea, but how do we implement mindfulness in business life? If you’ve been wondering how to be mindful in the office, this video is for you because I’m sharing my top 5 mindfulness at work tips.

Mindfulness in the office can help us make positive changes in our lives and at work. In this video, I’ll teach you 5 mindful techniques at work tricks for a healthier, less stressful, more productive day. Use these mindful techniques at work:

1) Mindful Minute
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5) Mindful Interaction

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Learn about the brain and the importance of Mindfulness Meditation.

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This video investigates the potential for mindfulness in treating substance addictions. It discusses what mindfulness is, how addiction works and presents research showing how mindfulness-based treatments have been effective in treating substance-based addictions (particularly cigarette addiction). It then provides information on how you can practice mindfulness on your own.

This video was made by McMaster Demystifying Medicine students Rajat Bhargava, Myfannwy Pope, Britney Baiden and Harleen Kaur Padwal.

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References:

Brewer, J. A., Mallik, S., Babuscio, T. A., Nich, C., Johnson, H. E., Deleone, C. M., … & Carroll, K. M. (2011). Mindfulness training for smoking cessation: results from a randomized controlled trial. Drug and alcohol dependence, 119(1-2), 72-80.

Brewer, J. A., Worhunsky, P. D., Gray, J. R., Tang, Y. Y., Weber, J., & Kober, H. (2011). Meditation experience is associated withdifferences in default mode network activity and connectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(50), 20254-20259.

Goldberg, S. B., Tucker, R. P., Greene, P. A., Davidson, R. J., Wampold, B. E., Kearney, D. J., & Simpson, T. L. (2017). Mindfulness-based interventions for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical psychology review.

Leech, R., & Sharp, D. J. (2013). The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease. Brain, 137(1), 12-32.

Witkiewitz, K., Bowen, S., Harrop, E. N., Douglas, H., Enkema, M., & Sedgwick, C. (2014). Mindfulness-based treatment to prevent addictive behavior relapse: theoretical models and hypothesized mechanisms of change. Substance use &misuse, 49(5), 513-524.

Witkiewitz, K., Marlatt, G. A., & Walker, D. (2005). Mindfulness-based relapse prevention for alcohol and substance use disorders. Journal of cognitive psychotherapy, 19(3), 211.

Young, S. N. (2011). Biologic effects of mindfulness meditation: growing insights into neurobiologic aspects of the prevention of depression. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience: JPN, 36(2), 75.
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If strong cravings arise, a mindfulness tool can bring us back into the present moment & help us feel grounded.

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You Cultivate Self-awareness. You begin to understand the hidden reasons for perpetual cravings and overall substance use.

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You learn Self-actualization. Psychologists describe self-actualization as maximizing human potential. You will see that in simply one breath, one choice away.

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Mindfulness is an ancient practice that has been around about as long as Meditation. They tend to go hand in hand since they both help us focus on the present moment, and create a sense of calm within us.

In this video I go over the two types of mindfulness, and how to be mindful. These techniques will help you learn how to be present in the moment, which in turn will show you how to live a fulfilling life.

Life’s too short to be lived stressed out all the time. Thankfully there’s mindfulness which can can show us the path toward happiness and life fulfillment.

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There are 80 to 100 billion neurons in a human brain, and every single one of them can form thousands of connections with other neurons, leading to a complex network of hundreds of trillions of synapses that enable brain cells to communicate with each other.

Yet, despite the best efforts and findings of modern neuroscience, the true functioning of our mind remains one of the greatest and most fascinating mysteries. We know a lot about how our brain helps us stay alive, communicate, and perceive the world around us. But this knowledge, however brilliant, continues to change at an extraordinary pace and represents only a tip of a gigantic iceberg whose full beauty is hiding well from our sight.

Is it then preposterous to consider that something as trivial as focusing our mind and breathing steadily for a short time every day could have a profound effect on our well-being? Is it in our power at all to make changes to our own brain?

Neuroscientists have been studying the effects of mindfulness techniques on our brains, with some pretty compelling results. The introduction of Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) into clinical practice in the 1980s has resulted in substantial scientific advancement. Since then, researchers have been able to measure the activity and changes in the individual parts of the brain in humans.
Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, uses the MRI technology to look at very fine, detailed brain structures and see what is happening to the brain while a person is performing a certain task, including yoga and meditation.

According to her own words, Lazar herself used to be sceptical about the lofty claims her yoga teacher had made about the emotional benefits of meditations she should have expected to experience. When after attending several classes, she indeed felt calmer, happier, and more compassionate, she decided to re-focus her research on the changes in the brain’s physical structure as a result of meditation practice.

CAN MEDITATION GENUINELY CHANGE BRAIN STRUCTURE?

For her second study, she engaged people who had never meditated before and put them through a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training program, where they took a weekly class and were told to perform mindfulness exercises, including body scan, mindful yoga, and sitting meditation, every day for 30 to 40 minutes. Lazar wanted to test the participants for positive effects of mindfulness meditation on their psychological well-being and alleviating symptoms of various disorders such as anxiety, depression, eating disorder, insomnia, or chronic pain.
After eight weeks, she found out that the brain volume increased in four regions, from which the most relevant were:

HIPPOCAMPUS: a seahorse-shaped structure responsible for learning, storage of memories, spatial orientation, and regulation of emotions.

TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION: the area where temporal and parietal lobes meet and which is responsible for empathy and compassion.

On the other hand, the one area whose brain volume decreased was the AMYGDALA: an almond-shaped structure responsible for triggering the fight-or-flight response as a reaction to a threat, whether real or only perceived.

Here, the decrease in gray matter correlated with changes in the levels of stress. The smaller their amygdala became, the less stressed people felt, even though their external environment remained the same. It proved that the change in amygdala reflected the change in the people’s reactions to their environment, not in the environment itself.

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A talk given at the 10th Global Conference on Buddhism, July 2017

What do we get WRONG about mindfulness? Um, kind of a lot in some cases.

Mindfulness shouldn’t be a crutch we use to ignore uncomfortable feelings and just “let them go” without ever dealing with them.

When you’re disrespected, ignored, overlooked, harassed, or anything else, you’re entitled to feel angry. You don’t need to meditate those feelings away.

I elaborate a little more in the video. Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts on this!

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Have a go at this practice to see for yourself how mindfulness works. Learn how kindness and patience are needed to train the mind.

Playing Attention is the 1st of 8 animations by Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP – https://mindfulnessinschools.org/) to support the .b course (https://mindfulnessinschools.org/what-is-b/b-curriculum/) for 11 to 18 year-olds.

.b is a classroom-based course first conceived in 2008. Since then it has been constantly evolving in response to feedback from both students and teachers. These animations are designed to support
students with their home practice after each classroom lesson. They are freely available on http://www.dotbe.org/

MiSP is a registered charity whose aim is to bring mindfulness to young people and those who care for them. Key to our vision is that the quality of our teaching materials and the training of those who
deliver them in the classroom is of the highest standard. Our courses can only be taught in schools by MiSP-trained teachers (https://mindfulnessinschools.org/courses/) who have an established mindfulness practice.

MiSP would like to thank animator Martin Pickles (http://martinpickles.com/) for his outstanding work. Many thanks also to Tom Lowe (http://lowe-frequency.co.uk/) for the sound design, Tanera Dawkins (http://www.taneradawkins.com/TANWEBSITE2.swf) for the music, and Niamh Bruce (https://www.sanctuary.ie/facilitators/niamh-bruce/) for her voice. The concept of the swirling circles was developed by Geoff Marsh (http://geoffmarsh.com/) and Sam Woolf. (http://samwoolf.net/)

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Learn how the DBT Mindfulness skills can help in situations where you want to lash out and act impulsively. By using the What and How skills you can learn to identify your emotional and reasonable mind and choose to live in a Wise mind.

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Do you ever find yourself in a situation that makes you want to lash out and act impulsively? Black and white thinking can cause you to act without fully considering the situation. This can disrupt your inner peace and damage your relationships. The DBT skill of mindfulness is one solution to extreme black and white thinking. Mindfulness helps you slow down to take a step back and clearly evaluate the situation. It lets you become aware of yourself and your surroundings. There are two skills to guide you through your mindfulness practice. The what skills and the how skills. The what skills teach you how to enter a state of mindfulness. First, observe your surroundings and the feelings in your body next. Describe what you’ve observed by putting it into words and always state the facts. Finally, mentally participate and engage fully in the present moment. Try not to let past or future thinking get in your way. The how skills teach you how to act while in a state of mindfulness. First, avoid judgment. Simply notice without assigning good or bad labels. Next focus on one thing at a time. Try not to let external distractions get in your way. Finally, do what works for you. You might feel more effective when you’re in a comfortable chair or while taking a walk. There’s no exact way to practice mindfulness. Practicing the what and how skills of mindfulness are one way to get into your ideal state of mind known as a wise mind. In wise mind, you are in tune with your emotions and the information they give you as well as the logical facts of the situation you’re in. By combining the aspects of emotions and reason you can avoid impulsive behaviors and make healthy decisions. By practicing mindfulness you’re able to clearly recognize if you’re being overly emotional or overly rational. Once you have reached a balance of the two and you are in wise mind your decisions will align with your long-term goals. You’ll be able to reduce your stress and anxiety, be in the present moment and have more control over your behaviors.

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Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses Borderline Personality Disorder from the viewpoint of a clinician / researcher of the highest caliber.

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But not because it’s something new, mindfulness has been around for a long time – it’s just becoming well-known in the Western World because of all the research that’s been done showing how it actually has the power to change our brains from a stressed and anxious one to a more calm and grounded one overall.

In this episode of Good For Me TV, I teach you one of the most simple, straight-forward mindfulness exercises that you can do anytime, any place with no formal meditation required.

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This video is included in Week 5 of the free online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR) by Palouse Mindfulness (http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR_week5-PAIN.html). We are able to include this as part of the course thanks to the generosity of Vidyamala and Breathworks (http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/aboutbreathworks). Her new book, You are not Your Pain is available through Macmillan publishers (http://us.macmillan.com/youarenotyourpain/vidyamalaburch). This is identical to the video found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImXepDbMhQ except that the closed-captioning has been corrected and Spanish subtitles have been added.
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