What is Mindfulness?

mindfulness forever fixed my sleep. I used to never be able to fall asleep, constantly thinking, hearing every single sound around me and focussing on them.
After having started daily meditation for at least half a year it just completely went away. Even now, when I don't meditate daily (in the traditional sense anyway) I still feel the effects. I just... fall asleep.

IT'S JUST SO EXPENSIVE

I think about we're I am what I'm doing that's a form of mindfulness too

okay i love this man

Mindfulness.if you thought about it you done it.????😮

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Thank You!

Awareness is a skill, and like any skill, it grows with practice. The reward? Freedom in the moment.

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I know what mindfulness is but what is the origin of mindfulness?

Why is mindfulness so underrated?

I lost track, still not sure what he is talking about

TLC waterfalls

Appreciable

He merely described TM, Buddhism, and it's old news repackaged.

YOU HAVE WEAK MIND ....ONLY...

Yes lord my thoughts omg help me 🤗🙏🏽

On Mindfulness, motivation, and pleasure: a different procedure and perspective from affective neuroscience


Procedure: Consistent and periodic alternation between a resting protocol (e.g. mindfulness) and the exclusive pursuit of meaningful behavior will increase motivation and positive affect (arousal and pleasure), and by making meaningful ideation more emotionally salient, will increase productive motivation and crowd out thoughts leading to anxiety and depression.

Explanation: Resting elicits opioid activity, or feels pleasurable, and meaningful behavior, as defined as behavior that has branching novel and positive outcomes (writing that great novel or just making the bed) elicits dopamine activity which causes attentive arousal. The awareness of subsequent meaningful behavior while engaging in relaxation protocols such as mindfulness elicits a ‘priming’ response, namely dopamine release that enhances ongoing opioid activity, and vice versa, making meaningful behavior seem self-reinforcing or ‘autotelic’, with cognition less likely to transition to perseverative thought (worry, regret, distraction) that elicits tension or anxiety. In other words, arousal and pleasure (i.e., dopamine and opioid) systems when simultaneously activated by disparate stimuli are synergistic, and co-activate each other to be more than the affective sum of their parts.


Although meditative practice reduces discursive thought or mind wandering that can lead to negative ideation or perseverative thought; it does not inhibit concurrent non-conscious awareness or anticipation of behavior or events subsequent to meditation that can in turn shape or ‘prime’ affective responses during a meditative session. A priming response, like the salivary response that precedes food or the sexual arousal that precedes intimacy, is a preparatory response that often occurs non-consciously, and changes the affective value or ‘feeling’ in the moment. Similarly, relaxing due to ‘being in the moment’ is pleasurable, but if we were told to expect ‘bad’ news or ‘good’ news in the near future, just the awareness of future events is enough to depress or elevate our feelings, but not altering in the slightest our ‘mindful’ or relaxed state. It follows that if mindfulness is paired with the awareness of subsequent positive or meaningful behavior, then rest in mindfulness will have a greater affective tone or ‘feel better’ than if such a prospect or expectancy was absent. This is perhaps why ‘savoring’, ‘loving kindness’ meditation, and ‘flow’ experiences represent highly pleasurable and arousing experiences, as they make future positive ideation contingent to obvious or subtle pleasures (due to relaxation, eating, drinking) and contrast with a lower level of pleasure during typical states of rest that generally precede a return to meaningless discursive thinking.


A final note on mindfulness: Mindfulness is not a one-off procedure to fight stress or feel good, but should be viewed as a default mode of thinking that can be engaged most of the day to manage affect, motivation, and overall wellbeing. However, although the mindfulness procedure is invaluable, a distinctive mindfulness process does not exist, but rather reflects the cognitive manipulation of affective processes in resting or relaxed states, and is not an exceptional process but a normal way of acting and thinking that makes our lives exceptional.



From ‘the book of rest, the odd psychology of doing nothing’ from the open source document web site scribd

"The ability to entertain a thought without accepting it is the sign of an educated mind "

~Not me

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I have no idea what he is on about yet loads of comments sayings it's great, what am I missing!

that same intro music was used in a safety video for Air China

Working on it

Ok but stupid name for it. It sounds much more like MIndUNfull, ness.

Ok

Has anyone healed with his medditstions?

1:37 "huge amount of time planning and worrying about the future, and a huge amount of time reminiscing about the past"

If you have one foot in yesterday, and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

---AA saying

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Very helpful!🙌

"Perseverate" - what does that mean? Is it a strange American corruption of persevere?

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sounds like a bunch of double talk

5:17 minutes.... i don't remember the last time i learned so much in a short time.. mindblown

Watched more than 50 times

I think of all the times I worried about the future without thinking and focusing on the present moment. Really makes you sit back and reflect on the current moment.

This small talk, changed my life for good! Thank you Jon. Life is wonderful, when you embrace every second of it AND be thankful that you're in the now and here.

Mindfulness is mentioned quite a bit during my Meditation Group Sessions....Very Grateful to hear this information and to see this video

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The 'professionals' appear to cling desperately to these self help, new agey, life wasting, junk therapy techniques because actually dealing with trauma is not cost effective or they simply don't know how. Best keep away from the facts pertaining to how frequently a child will be raped by one of their relatives or have cigarettes put out on them or will suffer profound, life damaging neglect. Let's all just focus on anything but trauma and attach a positive label to it. We can call it helpful and continue pretending that the pandemic of child neglect and abuse is fiction.

Greatest understanding

wooow, just wooow, very inspiring!

I don't know

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Something about all this smells fishy. “ Being here now” should be integrated into our zeitgeist enough to not need it in another cloak. Still,it’s helpful sometimes to see the obvious with a new name to it as a reminder. I just hate the moniker “ mindfulness” and having to be bored by a re- do.

Mindfulness doesnt solve poverty and poverty is the cause of more problems than lack of mindfulness

I thought mindfulness was meditation. Now I'm lost. I've been doing meditation for years and it's worked. Now I feel I don't even understand what it actually means.

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