PSY100H1 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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recently, meditation and other ancient practices have come back into studious fields of psychology. discrepancy based comparing me and you standards of comparison. focused on past (regret, guilt, memories) or future, rarely on present. our normal patterns of thinking are incessant and relentless. Mindfulness: an open, non-evaluative, non-reactive, present-moment focus of attention. much of our suffering has to do with resistance. the core of meditation self-awareness, wider gap between impulse and action, control over attention, greater focus of attention on present greater hedonic enjoyment! shares much in common with cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) (open, present- moment focus) difference: mindfulness is non-reactive/non-evaluative (doesn"t try to solve one"s problems) by practicing mindfulness, you learn to let go of things. rumination seems to be key (constant tendency to introspect) makes a neural network negative self schema. their attempted solution is cause of depression!
