Asian-Pacific Islands Women's Health Forum Talk
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The document discusses mindfulness, defining it as paying moment-to-moment attention to one's experiences. It explains that mindfulness can benefit health by reducing stress, worry, and fear while improving focus, thinking, and decision making. The document recommends practicing mindfulness through awareness of one's thoughts, finding a mantra, and taking daily time for self-reflection.
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- 1. Mindful EveryMoment: Whymindfulness is goodforyour health
- 2. Rich Decker • B.S. in Psychology, Colorado State University
- 3. What wewilltalkabout todayWhat wewilltalkabout today ∞ What is mindfulness ∞ Why you should practice it ∞ How you can practice it
- 4. What Is Mindfulness: ∞ Both a process and an outcome. ∞ A way of being. ∞ Paying attention to our experience ∞ Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness
- 5. What mindfulness is notWhat mindfulness is not ∞Magical ∞A medication ∞Done randomly ∞A distraction ∞Easy
- 6. WhyyoushouldpracticeitWhyyoushouldpracticeit Yourbrain has only one agenda in mind: SURVIVALSURVIVAL
- 9. Benefits of Mindfulness PracticesBenefits of Mindfulness Practices ∞Less fear ∞Reduces worry ∞Increased focus ∞Betterthinking ∞Betterdecision making ∞Less Stress Illnesses ∞See the positive
- 10. What happens to the brain ∞ Neuroplasticity
- 12. How youcanpracticeitHow youcanpracticeit ∞Find A Mantra
- 14. How youcanpracticeitHow youcanpracticeit ∞ Take some time each day to have a visit with yourself
- 15. The Pen and The DogThe Pen and The Dog
Notas do Editor
- These are my notes
- Awareness that emerges when we pay attention to our experience in a particular way; intentionally, in the present moment, with curiosity, acceptance, and non judgement. Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment.
- It is always watching for signs of “lack and attack” Our brain is programmed to seek out the negative – dwindling resources, destructive weather, whatever’s out to hurt you.
- With the brain’s main agenda being survival it is mostly looking in the past to replay the past threats and looking to the future to anticipate further threats. Our brains are programed to look for and recognize patterns. While looking for patterns it is continually running through loops or repetitive programs. Hence, repetitive thoughts.
- Lessen fear, loneliness, and depression Reduces worry, anxiety, and impulsivity. Increases focus, memory retention, and recall. Better cognitive skills and creative thinking. Better decision making and problem solving. Improved immune system, reduced blood pressure, helps in pain management, heart disease, etc. You can train you mind to see more of the positive and less of the negative. When you begin to see more positive in your life it effects all areas of you life.
- Neuroplasticity: You can change your brain 3 areas specifically effected: Research has found that those who practice mindfulness shift their brain activity from the stress prone right frontal cortex to the calmer left frontal cortex. Less activity in the amygdala, where the brain processes fear. Research has shown an increase in the grey matter of the neocortex (higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language.) Work your brain like a muscle. As you would brush your teeth everyday, you need to brush your mind as well.
- Be aware of how you start your day and how you end your day. What are you feeding your head. 24 hour news channels. I would strongly suggest not watching them at all. The people who make those news programs know that we are attracted to negative information.
- Find a word or saying that has some meaning to you. Repeat that word or saying when you catch yourself caught in the past or the future.
- Get yourself in the habit of spending a few quiet moments each day to train your mind to watch your thoughts instead of always being your thoughts.
- What is this? (holding a pen)