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The Liverpool Mindfulness Model

Peter Malinowski February 26, 2013 Research Blog 0

In my recent review paper on attentional control mechanisms in mindfulness meditation I also presented our Liverpool Mindfulness Model. The main purpose of this model is to serve as a structuring aid for our own meditation research.  It is thus …

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Neural mechanisms of attentional control in mindfulness meditation

Peter Malinowski February 7, 2013 Research Blog 0

Published a few days ago: In this focused review article I consider three main points: First, I present the general framework or skeleton (the Liverpool Mindfulness Model) my group uses as guidance for our meditation/mindfulness work . Second, I present …

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Mindfulness meditation – How does it work? Part Two

Peter Malinowski November 26, 2011 Research Blog 0

In a recent post I introduced a theoretical paper on the mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of mindfulness practice by Britta Hölzel and co-workers. Here I would like to offer a few more ideas that arose when reading this interesting …

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Mindfulness meditation – How does it work?

Peter Malinowski November 22, 2011 Research Blog 1

Buddhist Mindfulness practice has been around for more than 2500 years. Now, revamped in a psychological and neuroscientific context, we start asking the question, how this practice actually works. Well, we are not talking about how it helps individuals to …

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