PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Timothy Leary, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Cognitive Flexibility
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Immobilization due to sleep reduces exposure to predators: hypothesis 3, sleep helps organisms to restore energy and other resources, sleep deprivation, complete deprivation 3 or 4 days max, partial deprivation (sleep restriction) Insomnia inability to fall asleep, trouble staying asleep: falling asleep, go to bed only when sleepy, don"t eat, read, or use screens (tv, phone, etc. , sleep in bed. Jon kabat-zinn: professor of medicine at university of massachusetts medical school who developed mindfulness meditation, he teaches it as a technique to help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness, zindel segal, researcher at camh in toronto. Less emotional reactivity: more cognitive flexibility, enhanced relationship satisfaction, enhanced well-being and happiness, reduces feelings of loneliness. Increases grey matter: goal of meditation, teach you to be fully attentive to your present experience in a non-judgemental way, focus attention on breathing in and out.
