Title: Rewiring the Brain with Mindfulness and Meditation
1Rewiring the Brain with Mindfulness and Meditation
- Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart
- www.mindroads.com
2Awakening
3What are Mindfulness and Meditation?
4Mindfulness and Meditation are Mental Trainings
- Reduce stress
- Free the mind of afflictive emotions
- Develop qualities of
- Steadfastness
- Clear seeing
- Experiencing emotional distress
- Attention to the present moment
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6What Neuroscience Backs Up These Claims of
Benefit?
- Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Harvard University,
mid-1990s) - Modulation of Muscle Responses Evoked by
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation during the
Acquisition of New Fine Motor Skills, Journal of
Neurophysiology 74 (1995) - Zindel Segal (Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinic,
Toronto, 1994) - Cognitive Assessment of Unipolar Depression
Measuring Products, Processes, and Structures,
Behavior Research and Therapy 32 (January 1994)
147-58 - Jeffrey Schwartz (University of California-LA,
1996) - The Mind and the Brain Neuroplasticity and the
Power of Mental Force (NY Regan Books, 2002) - Helen Mayberg, University of Toronto (2002)
- Modulation of Cortical-Limbic Pathways in Major
Depression Treatment Specific Effects of
Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Archives of General
Psychiatry 61 (January 2004) 34-41 - Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin (2004)
- Long-term Meditators Self-Induce High Amplitude
Gamma Synchrony during Mental Practice,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
101 (November 16, 2004) - A Neural Correlate of Attentional Expertise in
Long-time Buddhist Practitioners, slide
presentation at the Society for Neuroscience, 2004
7Specific Brain States Correlate with Happiness
8Meditation Activates a Brain Network Linked to
Empathy
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10Meditation Changes the Circuitry of the Brain
11Meditation can, change the brain and forever
alter our sense of well-being.
Richard Davidson, Laboratory for Neuroaffective
Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
12Loving-Kindness Meditation
13How Do Meditation and Psychotherapy Compliment?
- Psychotherapy helps meditators, such as people
who - Adopt distance as a refuge
- Seek to spiritually bypass their psychological
injuries - An internalized nurturant parent helps
spiritual development - Opening up our emotional life helps create
vibrant nonattachment
14Threefold Training
15Meditation Supports Psychotherapy
- Offers tools for self-soothing
- Helps develop focus
- Builds skills in sensing, reflecting and
free-associating - Creates awareness of physical and psychological
matters - Deepens compassion for self and others
16Meditation Helps the Therapist
17Meditation Helps the Psychotherapist
- Renews therapist, counteracts burn-out
- Develops listening and intuition
- Helps therapist embody warmth and caring that is
not sticky - Develops capacity for unconditional presence
- Client is exposed to genuine, heartfelt love,
experiencing the touching quality of the
therapists presence
18Awakening
19Reading
- Aronson, Harvey, Buddhist Practice on Western
Ground (Boston Shambala, 2004) - Begley, Sharon, Train Your Mind, Change Your
Brain (NY Ballantine Books, 2007) - Hahn, Thich Nhat, Calling Me By My True Names
(Berkely, CA Parallex Press, 1973) - Jacobs-Stewart, Thérèse, Paths Are Made By
Walking Practical Steps to Attaining Serenity
(NY Time-Warner Books, 2003) - Welwood, John, Toward A Psychology of Awakening
(Boston Shambala, 2002)
20Rewiring the Brain with Mindfulness and Meditation
- Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart
- www.mindroads.com
- 651-225-1443 X3