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Title: Rewiring the Brain with Mindfulness and Meditation


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Rewiring the Brain with Mindfulness and Meditation
  • Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart
  • www.mindroads.com

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Awakening
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What are Mindfulness and Meditation?
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Mindfulness 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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What 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

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Specific Brain States Correlate with Happiness
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Meditation Activates a Brain Network Linked to
Empathy
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Meditation Changes the Circuitry of the Brain
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Meditation can, change the brain and forever
alter our sense of well-being.
Richard Davidson, Laboratory for Neuroaffective
Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Loving-Kindness Meditation
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How 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

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Threefold Training
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Meditation 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

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Meditation Helps the Therapist
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Meditation 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

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Awakening
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Reading
  • 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)

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Rewiring the Brain with Mindfulness and Meditation
  • Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart
  • www.mindroads.com
  • 651-225-1443 X3
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