Mindfulness practices help penitentiary inmate form an intimate relationship and develop responsible parenting skills
Mark L. Beischel – Calming the Brain through Mindfulness
THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MINDFULNESS
- Our brains are social by nature
- The foundation is set during the first year of life
- “Relational trauma” according to Schore
- The limbic system
- Frontal lobe development
- The “Executive” control center
- Neurotransmitters
- DNA telomeres
INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS
- Evolution of the cortex and survival
- Fear and anxiety resolved through relationships including spiritual
- Intimacy and the mirror neurons
- The development of attunement
- Intimacy skills:
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Communication of emotions
- Conflict resolution
- Sustaining commitment
- The neurobiology of mindfulness meditation
- Emotional benefits of mindfulness
MINDFULNESS AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION
- The evolutionary function of fear and anxiety
- Fast and slow circuits
- Fears and anxieties
- Stress and hippocampal damage
- Regulating fear
ELICITING THE RELAXATION RESPONSE: RESEARCH OF HERBERT BENSON
- Eastern meditation and visualization
- Gains through Benson’s method
- Genes expressed differently
- Anxiety and depression
- Cancer
- Heart disease
- The relaxation response also elicited by:
- Physical exercise
- Music
- Repetitive prayers
- Benson’s eight-step program for eliciting the relaxation response
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MINDFULNESS IN MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
- Mechanisms of action
- Focusing on the present
- Definition of Shapiro and Kubat-Zinn –self-regulation and self-management
- Re-perceiving non-judgmentally
- Eight themes of Teasdale, Williams, and Segal
- Rogers’ mindfulness exercise
- Mindfulness, spirituality, and cultural competence
- The therapist’s mindfulness attitudes:
- Self-compassion and attunement
- Empathy and attunement with others
- Emotional regulation
EASTERN AND WESTERN MEDITATION
- History of Eastern and Western meditation
- The “Desert Fathers”
- Evolution of meditation and contemplation
- Neuroscience of meditation and contemplation
- Maslow’s self-actualizing characteristics and meditation
- Attachment theory, meditation and self-actualization
- Newberg’s research on the “Centering Prayer” of Keating
MINDFULNESS TRAINING AND INTERVENTIONS FOR
- Children and adolescents
- Emotional regulation disorders
- Chronic depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Addiction treatment
CASE STUDY
- Mindfulness practices help penitentiary inmate form an intimate relationship and develop responsible parenting skills