Group Members

• Iqra Wali (104)

• Faiza Zubair (126)
• Kiran Jabeen (102)
• Wajeeha Asma (122)
 DEFINATION
• A mental state achieved by
focusing one's awareness on the
present moment, while calmly
acknowledging and accepting
one's feelings, thoughts, and
bodily sensations, used as a
therapeutic technique.
• The quality or state of being
conscious or aware of something.
 MOMENT TO MOMENT SEARCHES
• Daniel Kahbeman • Research of Amy Wrzesniewki
(Psychologist) (Positive Psychologist)
• Values time • Ellen Langer
• Understands relationship between (Social Psychologist)
individual moments and broader • Book
experience of life (Mindful Health and The Power
• MOMENTS of Possibility)
Mindfulness as a state of mind
• Everyday happenings and
physilogical,psycholigcal sensations.
Buddhist tradition
• A new age concept
• Common Physiological phenomenon
• Increasing attention in order to
“IDENTIFY DISTORTED
THINKING”
 Search for Novelty
• Mindfulness is an active search Being Mindful requires us
for novelty whereas mindlessness • To overcome the desire to reduce
involves passively zoning out to uncertainity in daily life.
everyday life • To override the tendency to
• “Automatic Pilot” engage in automatic behavior
(form of mindlessness) • To engage less frequently in
evalutations of self, others and
situations.
 Mindfulness Qualities
 Non Judging
 Non striving
 Acceptance
 Patience
 Trust
 Openness
 Letting go
 Gentleness
 Generosity
 Empathy
 Gratitude
 Loving kindness
 Living with Mindfulness
• With the help of mindfulness meditation, one can bring about increased
awareness to any activity and can be more receptive to current situation
and internal states.
• Examples:
 Being mindful of emotions
– One can learn to be less judgmental and
to watch anger and other emotional states
with compassion.
 Being mindful of eating
– It increases awareness of eating and is
helpful for those who want to change their
eating habits.
 Mindful stretching exercises
– Gentle exercises seeks to unite the body, mind and spirit and can result in
improved health and vitality.
 Mindful breathing and sitting as a meditation
– Meditation help to relax and focus the mind and make people feel more refreshed
and energetic.
• Treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, depression
 John Kabat-Zinn
 Mindfulness based stress reduction program (MBSR)
 Shapiro and colleagues (1998)
 They tested the effects of mindfulness meditation on premedical and medical students during
their stressful examination period.
 Brown and Ryan (2003)
 They conducted a study with cancer patients to check out their emotional states after meditation.
S  Biegal and colleagues (2009)
 They used a mindfulness based stress reduction technique
with adolescents with various psychiatric diagnoses and
compared them with a control group.

• Benefits beyond stress relief

 Weinberger and colleagues (1990)
 They demonstrated that affiliative trust and oneness
motivation increases through mindfulness meditation.
 Duncan (2009)
 Proposed a Model of mindful parenting that includes
moment to moment awareness of the parent-child
relationship.
 Astin (1997)
 He demonstrated significant increases in spiritual
experiences after mindfulness meditation.
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• Helpful in the field of psychology
 Schure and colleagues (2008)
 They conducted a qualitative study in which
counseling students were taught meditation
techniques and exercises and then assessed
for changes in their lives.
 Greason and Cashwall (2009)
 They predicted that higher degree of mindfulness
in psychology trainees increases level of self-efficacy
and empathy in them.
 Thomas (2006)
 Cultural intelligence (CQ)