PSYC 403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Loving-Kindness, Impulsivity, Cognitive Therapy
13 May 2018
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Mindfulness-Based Therapies and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• What is mindfulness?
o Mindfulness: the awareness that arises from paying attention on purpose, in the
present moment, and non-judgementally
▪ Definition by Kabat-Zinn
• He brought mindfulness to people’s attetio
▪ Attention-Intention-attitude
▪ Attention-> paying attention to the present moment without worrying
about the past or future
▪ Intention-> aware of present circumstances, not passive
▪ Attitude-> thankful to yourself, curious about your mind
o John Kabat-Zinn wrote Full Catastrophe Living
o Kabat-Zi’s see attitudial foudatios of idfuless:
▪ Non-judging
• Do’t judge hat oes up for you
• Not good or bad
▪ Patience
• Things unfold in their own time
▪ Beginners mind
• Able to be surprised by what happens
▪ Trust
• Not constantly questioning what you feel
▪ Non-striving
• Not trying to change anything
• Doing it for the sake of mindfulness
▪ Acceptance
• Accepting things as they are
• Accepting pain
▪ Letting go/ be or non-attachment
o Formal mindfulness meditation practice
▪ Mindful breathing
• Have thoughts, accept them, and return to breath
▪ Body scan
• Start with fingers, go up arm, to head, go down the body
• Walk through each aspect of the body
▪ Mountain meditation
• Picture self as a mountain
• Everything around the mountain is what you experience
▪ Loving kindness meditation
• Develop positive feelings towards yourself and other people
o Hard for people to do
▪ Hae thoughts ad thik they’re ot good at it
▪ But supposed to have thoughts
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