This short animation illustrates the practice of mindfulness. For more information on mindfulness and improving wellbeing, visit www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/e....
Love this video explaining these 3 core concepts and how they are related. In a way this is life. You live a life of purpose; with intention. You pay attention to that and act/live your life; aligning actions with intent. Occasionally you fall off the wagon, but that's okay. You get back right up and try again and you keep getting better at it.
@alinoboy
5 жыл бұрын
Yes it’s Message was a simple one and that’s why it’s was so poignant and easy to understand and Adapt into our life. The frog was perfect for its usage without being distracting for me.
@khalidh3091
2 жыл бұрын
This an excellent video, which does a great job explaining what is mindfulness.
@mmorin8180
6 жыл бұрын
Génial! Amazingly profound yet so simple, brilliant, Merci
@heewonkim8371
7 жыл бұрын
Pretty good animation with explanations. Thank you.🙏
@jacekicksass
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. very helpful
@harsh46055
7 жыл бұрын
brilliant.
@ajmarr5671
4 жыл бұрын
Mindfulness, Meaning, and Neuroscience Mindfulness, for all its undeniable virtues, can nonetheless be boring, as ‘acting non-judgmentally in the moment’ cannot inhibit the basic human need to perceive future novel and positive outcomes. But one can indeed act non-judgmentally and still pursue singular and meaningful ends, and not only extend daily mindfulness, but enhance positive affect to boot. The procedure is easy, simply follow your usual mindfulness protocols, and simultaneously pursue or anticipate pursuing meaningful behavior (e.g. cleaning house, writing poetry, exercise, etc.). Do this continuously for standard sessions of a least a half hour and chart your progress. You will be more pleasurably alert, engaged, and incented to continue being mindful. Neurologically, this is due to ‘opioid-dopamine’ interactions, or the fact that mindfulness induces a state of deep rest, which is pleasurable due to the induction of opioid activity in the brain. Meaningful activity on the other hand induces dopaminergic activity, which is felt as a state of alert arousal. Opioid and dopamine neurons are located proximally in the midbrain, and when both are simultaneously activated will also co-stimulate each other, resulting in enhanced feelings of arousal and pleasure. Indeed, when rest is accompanied by highly meaningful behaviors (creating art, athletic prowess), pleasure and alertness are highly accentuated, resulting in ‘peak’ or ‘flow’ experiences. So there is my procedure and prediction, which of course you can prove or falsify for yourself, give or take an hour! (and best of all, no need here for web apps, books, seminars, or lessons. The best things in life, and lessons in life, should be free!) This interpretation is based on the work of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a leading theorist on emotion and incentive motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript. Berridge’s Site sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/ I offer a more detailed theoretical explanation in pp. 47-52, and pp 82-86 of my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing also: Meditation and Rest from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation
@ajmarr5671
4 жыл бұрын
@Kevin Honesh Thanks for your comment, and here is another way of looking at it. Consider a red apple. If I describe it to you as the most incredible taste sensation ever, you will be more attentively aroused by the apple, and literally find it more pleasurable than without the poetic description (wine connoisseurs take note!). On the other hand, if I just hand you the apple and you find it delicious, your attentive arousal will also go up. These two facts describe how arousal and pleasure systems in the brain, which are reflected by the activity of dopamine and opioid neurons, can interact, and do interact generally in our daily lives. My procedure with mindfulness simply recognizes this fact and demonstrates how we can manipulate incentive (arousal) and pleasure systems in the brain to enhance the affective attributes of mindfulness and extend mindfulness throughout our working day. This analysis comes from affective neuroscience, which unlike cognitive neuroscience (which is the primary source of mindfulness research), does not use brain scans (fmri) but rather is sourced on the analysis in real time of ‘in vivo’ molecular processes occurring in the midbrain, and with animals and not humans as subjects. Affective neuroscience is a more specialized discipline than cognitive neuroscience, but no less important, but only a few labs pursue it because it is more difficult and less ‘flashy’ than cognitive neuroscience. That’s why I strongly refer you to the affective neuroscientist’s Kent Berridge’s web site for an education on the other side of brain science. AJ Marr
Mindfulness and Happiness: a different perspective from affective neuroscience. Being in the moment, or being mindful, has as its major entailment a state of rest, which affectively is a pleasant state. However, happiness, if defined ‘affectively’ as a combination of pleasure and arousal, requires but a simple modification of mindfulness practice to elicit both affective states, and can easily be mapped to simple neurologic processes. Hypothesis and proof below. HYPOTHESIS: Dopaminergic activity will stimulate endogenous opioid systems when the latter are in a non-suppressed state. EXPLANATION AND ‘PROOF’: Activity that involves continuous positive act/outcome discrepancy or novelty (productive or meaningful behavior) while the covert musculature is inactive (a resting state) will result in heightened feeling of pleasure and arousal, or ‘eudaemonia’, ‘flow’, or ‘peak’ experience. This derives from the observation that neuro-muscular tension (or stress) inhibits endogenous opioid (pleasure) release, while relaxation accentuates it, the latter permitting opioid systems to be further stimulated by dopaminergic activity (arousal) elicited by meaningful behavior. The reason this explanation does not appear evident from general observation is that its counterpart as ‘flow’ or ‘peak’ experience is described through literary metaphor and not scientific language and obscures the independent and dependent measures that accurately describe it. The virtue of this explanation is that it is easily testable by anyone. Just get into a relaxed state (mindfulness protocols are the best way to do this) and then exclusively pursue or anticipate pursuing productive activity for periods of a half hour or so, and voila, you will have a flow or eudaemonic experience. It is that simple. I offer a more detailed explanation in pp. 47-52, and pp 82-86 of my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing This above book is based on the research of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a preeminent researcher and authority on dopamine, addiction, and motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript. Berridge’s Site and his article from ‘Scientific American’ magazine on the neuroscience of happiness sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/ sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf also: Meditation and Rest from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation
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