Mindfulness 1
Mindfulness is not this (with respect to your thoughts).
What is clearing your mind, getting rid of them, etc?
Name a benefit to mindfulness practice
What are (answers vary):
Give you more choices and more control over behavior
Reduce emotional suffering
Increase your pleasure and sense of well being
Helps focus your attention
Increase compassion
Lessen pain
Stress is universal as well as __.
What is individual?
Breathing exercises help reduce __ and __.
What are Stress and Anxiety?
The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections
What is neuroplasticity?
It is necessary to make time in your life for stillness and __.
What is non-doing?
According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, present moment is the only time we are truly __.
There are three ways that stress manifests itself in an individual. They are __, __, __.
What are physical, emotional, and thoughts?
This type of breathing includes exhaling for 4 seconds, holding the lungs empty for 4 seconds, inhaling to a count of 4, and holding air in your lungs for a count of 4.
What is box breathing or 4-square breathing?
"Neurons that fire together, __ together."
What is "wire"?
Mindfulness has to do above all with __ and __.
What are attention and awareness?
One way to embody mindfulness is to use your __.
What are 5 senses?
Being apprehensive, overwhelmed, frustrated, worried, angry, or stretched too thin are examples of this category of stress.
What is emotional?
If your mind has a tendancy to wander while practicing a breathing exercise, doing this might help.
What is counting OR using a focus word or phrase?
With repeated and directed __towards a desired change, we are able to "rewire" our brain.
attention
__ is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness.
What is meditation?
Mindfulness is paying attention to this.
What is the present moment?
Overthinking, not being able to concentrate, having bad thoughts, and exaggerating are all examples of this type of stress.
What is thoughts?
This type of breathing practice includes placing one hand on your chest and the other on your stomach, taking a deep breath and inhaling through your nose. Your chest should barely move.
What is belly breathing?
The ___ is the alarm center of your brain.
What is the amygdala?
What is the three-part definition of mindfulness?
What is:
-being in the present moment
-noticing physical sensations, emotions and thoughts
-without judgment
Mindfulness requires the cultivation of __.
What is awareness?
Provide an example of stress that exhibits itself through physical symptoms.
What is (variety of answers: headache, loss of weight, etc)?
This type of breathing is the "natural tranquilizer to the nervous system".
Your brain is __ to the good moments in life and __ to the bad moments.
What are teflon and velcro?