PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Life Satisfaction, Mental Model, Heritability
18 Apr 2018
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Mindfulness treatment for the parents of autistic children. Improve the performance of children: decrease aggressiveness, self injury. Meditator report closer relationship, greater acceptance, improved quality of communication between couples. Improve observing: we see things better with details, attending to stimuli. Describing: can accurately describe things we are experiencing. Acting with awareness: behave more thoughtfully, rather than automatically. Non judging of inner experience: not evaluating one"s thoughts, feelings. Nonreactivity of inner experience: allowing them come and go, without get attached to them. Body awareness: physical makeup of who we are. Mintal components of mindfulness (specific areas of the brain no tested) Strong connection between mind and brain structure, we can change the physical brain structure to change your mind! Some eastern activity like yoga is to change the brain physically. Peak experience cannot be manipulated, but flow and mindfulness can be recreated. People report the most likely situation when they experience flow.
