Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2016 12:16:29 GMT -5
The United Kingdom is far ahead of the US in implementing the strong scientific evidence supporting mindfulness into its country's government. They have a group of mindful practitioners in their Parliament. They've added mindfulness to their paradigms for Mental health, Education, Military(esp. veterans). They just published a paper about the benefits of mindfulness in the workplace. I thought readers might find interesting their extended definition of mindfulness in this paper:The Mindfulness Initiative, United Kingdom Government Document, October 2016.(You can download the full PDF article from the Mindfulness Initiative October, 2016 Paper HERE and clicking button at bottom of that page.)
Mindfulness Initiative, United Kingdom Government Document, October 2016.
What is Mindfulness?
The cultivation of mindfulness is commonly associated with Buddhist traditions, but over the last 40 years these practices have been combined with modern psychological theory and developed into a secular training that has been the subject of thousands of scientific trials.
1 According to leading mindfulness researchers, to say that mindfulness is Buddhist is akin to saying that gravity is Newtonian;
2.Instead, mindfulness is best considered an inherent human capacity akin to language acquisition;
3 a capacity that enables people to focus on what they experience in the moment, inside themselves as well as in their environment, with an attitude of openness, curiosity and care.
4 In fact we are all somewhat mindful some of the time, but we can choose to cultivate this faculty and refine it to ever-greater degrees through practice. Being mindful does not necessarily involve meditation, but for most people this form of mind-training is required to strengthen the intention to stay present and cultivate an open and allowing quality of mind.
5 Particularly in a business context therefore, “Mindfulness” is most often referred to as a practice that individuals and teams can do on a day-to-day basis. Secular methods of cultivating mindfulness have been available since the development of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programmes for treating physical pain and poor mental health in the 1980s and 1990s.
These clinical interventions generally entail eight weekly classes of up to two and a half hours each, however a great deal of innovation over the last decade has led to a proliferation of programmes with varying lengths, intensities and delivery styles developed for very different audiences. No standardized training models for workplaces exist that have been proven to apply universally.
Typically, workplace mindfulness training ranges from one-hour introductory sessions to 10-week programmes. It is thought that the deeper fruits of practice are only available through courses of at least six weeks, due to the necessity for participants to start encountering and working through their own resistance and reactivity in relation to practice, alth0ugh this claim has not yet been tested through research.
www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/images/reports/MI_Building-the-Case_v1.1_Oct16.pdf
What is Mindfulness?
The cultivation of mindfulness is commonly associated with Buddhist traditions, but over the last 40 years these practices have been combined with modern psychological theory and developed into a secular training that has been the subject of thousands of scientific trials.
1 According to leading mindfulness researchers, to say that mindfulness is Buddhist is akin to saying that gravity is Newtonian;
2.Instead, mindfulness is best considered an inherent human capacity akin to language acquisition;
3 a capacity that enables people to focus on what they experience in the moment, inside themselves as well as in their environment, with an attitude of openness, curiosity and care.
4 In fact we are all somewhat mindful some of the time, but we can choose to cultivate this faculty and refine it to ever-greater degrees through practice. Being mindful does not necessarily involve meditation, but for most people this form of mind-training is required to strengthen the intention to stay present and cultivate an open and allowing quality of mind.
5 Particularly in a business context therefore, “Mindfulness” is most often referred to as a practice that individuals and teams can do on a day-to-day basis. Secular methods of cultivating mindfulness have been available since the development of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programmes for treating physical pain and poor mental health in the 1980s and 1990s.
These clinical interventions generally entail eight weekly classes of up to two and a half hours each, however a great deal of innovation over the last decade has led to a proliferation of programmes with varying lengths, intensities and delivery styles developed for very different audiences. No standardized training models for workplaces exist that have been proven to apply universally.
Typically, workplace mindfulness training ranges from one-hour introductory sessions to 10-week programmes. It is thought that the deeper fruits of practice are only available through courses of at least six weeks, due to the necessity for participants to start encountering and working through their own resistance and reactivity in relation to practice, alth0ugh this claim has not yet been tested through research.
www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/images/reports/MI_Building-the-Case_v1.1_Oct16.pdf