This month's edition of the journal Psychological emotion offers a new series of studies on the effects of mindfulness meditation on both the capacity of working memory (the amount of information that we can manipulate in our minds at a time), and our ability to control our emotions - being "emotional intelligence." The basic idea is that working memory is used not only to manage our cognitive resources to assist in fluid intelligence, but also to control our emotions better. This link between working memory and emotion is the latest news. Before summarizing the results, here are some basic information about mindfulness meditation - what it is and what we know about it You'll be surprised by its size
What is mindfulness ..?
Mindfulness means being aware of a sense of purpose in the present, without trial. Mindfulness, a state of alert in which the mind is not caught in the thoughts, feelings, desires or feelings, but can come and go, a bit like watching a river flow by. Attention is observation without trial: It is this ability of the mind to observe without criticism. Once when one sees things without condemnation or conviction. We do not decide and do not judge.
The simple observation. Mindfulness is not selfish vigilance. There is no reference to itself. Carefully, we see all phenomena, without references to concepts like "me" "my" or "mine". and decide not to judge. The simple observation. Mindfulness is cultivated through meditation. This is a practice.
Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation practice can be transformative. It has been shown scientifically to have diverse and far-reaching impacts, and has the potential to transform the way we respond to life events.
* It reduces stress and negative emotional reactivity.
* It reduces psychopathology.
* It heightens attention and awareness.
* It promotes self-actualization.
* It enables seeing opportunities for open, spontaneous action in the world, free from egoism
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mindfulness in the company becomes widely recognized as an effective tool for mental and physical health. For example, in the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding more than 50 studies of technical tests of attention - from 3 in 2000 - to help relieve stress, calm the anxiety of addiction to improve care, lift despair.
Care and the military: How to cope with stress in a study published in the journal Emotion by Amish Jha and his colleagues persuaded 48 Marines who went to Iraq to participate in scientific study. For eight weeks before a deployment, a group of 31 marines regularly practiced meditation for two attention, while another group of 17 men had no training attention.
Jha asks if the care would improve the ability of soldiers to control emotions by improving the capacity of working memory. The reasoning behind this is the idea that memory capacity can not simply help to manage the information in reasoning and problem solving - but it can help manage emotions and keep your brain works well under pressure. This is a kind of emotional intelligence.
Stress is not - as expected - to reduce the capacity of working memory of the Marine Corps' But those who have practiced more attention than actually seen a slight increase in the working capacity of memory than the soldiers, who had no education, "conscious" Marines also the mood more positive and fewer negative moods bring home ...
Build fluid intelligence and to protect the stress, meditation, mindfulness, and mindfulness training of working memory could benefit people who are in a situation similar to the military. - That require intense physical fitness, mental and emotional work, such as firefighters, police officers, other first responders and emergency workers, scientists say. But, more generally, mindfulness meditation can help to protect cognitive function and use our intelligence to the fluid conditions of stress be it.:
life is stressful - if you take tests, or against cognitive pressures at work! If meditation is combined with the formation of the brain that our company offers a combination of training have far-reaching. Personally, I've always been working memory training with mindfulness meditation. These results come as a vindication of the beautiful I've lived with a great value for more than a year. I have long understood that our intelligence is not only the processing of information - that is also intelligent with our emotions.
