The Second Class
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
Chapter 7 describes and provides scripts for teaching the second class in the Koru Basic series. The class begins with an opening meditation, then moves into “check-in.” During check-in, ...
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The Fourth Class
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
This chapter describes the fourth and final class. There is a script for the opening meditation, followed by a description of check-in, with common student comments. The meditation skill ...
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An Introduction to Mindfulness and Acceptance Therapies for Psychosis
Brandon A. Gaudiano
in Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
Pharmacological treatments can be effective for reducing positive symptoms of psychosis. Nevertheless, additional interventions often are needed to address negative symptoms, functioning, ...
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Meditation: Practice and experience
Martine Batchelor
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
In this chapter it is proposed that the basis of Buddhist meditation lies in a combination of concentration and enquiry. It presents concentration and enquiry in reference to different ...
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Transformation
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
When the Koru courses started in 2005, the depth of the transformation that many students would experience in just four classes was not anticipated. Initially, the goals for the students ...
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The Third Class
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
The third class follows the same structure as the previous classes. In this chapter, as with the others, there is a script for the opening short meditation. This is followed by typical ...
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Session 8: Anger Management / Mantra Meditation
Michael H. Antoni, Gail Ironson, and Neil Schneiderman
in Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management: Workbook
Chapter 9 outlines the eighth session of CBSM treatment, which explores meditation (its physiological effects, medical applications, postures, and the meditative attitude). Mantra ...
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Session 8: Mantra Meditation / Anger Management
Michael H. Antoni, Gail Ironson, and Neil Schneiderman
in Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management for Individuals Living with HIV: Facilitator Guide
Chapter 10 outlines the eighth session of CBSM treatment, which explores meditation (its physiological effects, medical applications, postures, and the meditative attitude). Mantra ...
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Traditional and secular views of psychotherapeutic applications of mindfulness and meditation
Lynn C. Waelde and Jason M. Thompson
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
Expanding psychotherapeutic implementations of mindfulness and meditation (MM) raise issues about whether definitions, practices, and descriptions of meditative states should be guided by ...
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The “Stream” of Consciousness: Mind-Wandering, Introspection, Rumination, Meditation, and Mindfulness
Ian M. Evans
in How and Why Thoughts Change: Foundations of Cognitive Psychotherapy
Conscious thought is sometimes described as a stream of mental activity (stream of consciousness), an endless organizing of snatches of inner experience, daydreams, plans, and self-talk. In ...
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The practice of meditation
Michael A. West
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
This chapter describes the practice of meditation in the contexts of different religions, in human history, across cultures, in spirituality, in mysticism, and in literature. The varieties ...
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Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
Brandon A. Gaudiano (ed.)
Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis brings together the researchers and clinicians working at the cutting edge of acceptance/mindfulness therapies for ...
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Mindfulness Meditation in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis
Katherine Newman Taylor and Nicola Abba
in Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
This chapter places mindfulness for psychosis in the context of current cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) theory and practice. Formulation-based CBT identifies reciprocally related ...
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The First Class
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
Chapter 6 provides a detailed description of the first of the four classes that comprise the Koru Basic curriculum developed at Duke University to teach mindfulness and meditation to ...
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Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
College students and other young adults today are experiencing high levels of stress as they pursue personal, educational, and career goals. In recent years there has been increased ...
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Koru: A New Model
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
Chapter 1 introduces Koru mindfulness, the model developed at Duke University’s Counseling and Psychological Services for teaching mindfulness and meditation to university students. The ...
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How conscious experience comes about, and why meditation is helpful
Guy Claxton
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
The way one conceptualizes the experience, practices, and outcomes of meditation depends on the guiding metaphors one holds about conscious experience. This chapter offers metaphors of ...
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Session 5: Reacting Versus Responding
Colette M. Smart
in Wisdom Mind: Mindfulness for Cognitively Healthy Older Adults and Those With Subjective Cognitive Decline, Participant Workbook
In this session, a distinction is made between mindfulness (coming to the present moment) and awareness (what we find when we come to this moment). After a discussion of the prior week’s ...
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Anger Management / Mantra Meditation
Frank J. Penedo, Michael H. Antoni, and Neil Schneiderman
in Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management for Prostate Cancer Recovery: Workbook
Chapter 8 outlines the eighth session of CBSM treatment for prostate cancer recovery, which introduces mantra meditation techniques for relaxation, and discusses quality of thought, ...
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Session 5: Reacting Versus Responding
Colette M. Smart
in Wisdom Mind: Mindfulness for Cognitively Healthy Older Adults and Those With Subjective Cognitive Decline, Facilitator Guide
In this session, a distinction is made between mindfulness (coming to the present moment) and awareness (what we find when we come to this moment). After a discussion of the prior week’s ...
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