| Mindfulness meditation refers to an eastern | | | | How does such a therapy session begin? |
| religious philosophy as well as a western technique | | | | Concentration usually involves the person focusing |
| for improving the efficiency of the mind. | | | | attention on a single object. They welcome every |
| Mindfulness meditation has been commonly used | | | | aspect of experience and clear their mind of |
| by American psychologists in an effort to conquer | | | | everything except what is mentally happening in |
| phobias, personality disorders and even in | | | | the moment. This form of concentration sees the |
| acceptance and commitment therapy (which is | | | | person give most attention to a target, or an |
| essentially therapy that helps a person "change" | | | | anchor, that will help a person stay in the present |
| their mindset). | | | | only. This target may be a physical object, or |
| Mindfulness meditation involves coming to a total | | | | perhaps something intangible like a process of |
| awareness of one's self and thoughts; he or she | | | | breathing. This helps the individual to keep the |
| will be aware of the body, aware of its functions | | | | mind focused; even if his or her attention |
| and processes and aware of consciousness-all | | | | wanders, it's easy to direct it back to the object. |
| within one mind. There are two primary focuses | | | | It's not important to keep uninterrupted attention |
| in achieving this type of medication. First, that the | | | | all the way through; rather, whenever distraction |
| person controls his or her self-regulation of | | | | occurs, without great effort or chastising, we |
| attention and second that he or she opens the | | | | simply bring the attention back to the anchor. As |
| mind up to curiosity, openness and understanding. | | | | this process progresses, the person will feel their |
| This is essentially a quest to gain insight, as | | | | mind start to calm and the thought process start |
| Buddha teaches that mindfulness and meditation | | | | to slow down. |
| are the pathways to enlightenment. | | | | |