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Mindfulness and Cognitive Control

2012-02-17/1 Comment/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychology

An important ability in life is the ability to act automatically. Once we have learned how to ride a bycicle it will work without much – if any – conscious effort or control being required. This is certainly a good thing. However, sometimes we function on autopilot when it might be less useful or we may respond in an automated fashion, without being quite aware that we are responding, not to mention how exactly we are responding. This is not... Read more

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Mindfulness and obesity

2011-12-21/1 Comment/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Mindfulness, Physiology, Psychology

Almost three weeks since the last post. NO! – meditation and mindfulness research did not come to a sudden standstill. I was abroad, presenting our work at the Research Seminar in Experimental and Neuro-Cognitive Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Then I travelled on to Belgium for talks in buddhist groups/centres in Liège and Brussels. While the European leaders were trying to come up with a plan to stabilise Europe’s finances we were meditating in the European Parliament, making... Read more

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Mindfulness meditation – How does it work? Part Two

2011-11-26/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Meditation, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychology

In a recent post I introduced a theoretical paper that outlines how mindfulness meditation works. Britta Hölzel and co-workers explain the assumed mechanisms that underpin the beneficial effects of mindfulness practice . Here I would like to offer a few more ideas that arose when reading this interesting paper. Hölzel et al’s (2011) model of mindfulness mechanisms A theoretical perspective of mechanisms of mindfulness The authors developed the presented model on theoretical grounds and – to a varying degree –... Read more

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Mindfulness meditation – How does it work?

2011-11-22/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Meditation, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychology

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 reach a state of liberation or even to move on to enlightenment, but we want to see whether some of the processes that lead to beneficial outcomes can be described in psychological and neuroscientific terminology. You may wonder if this is... Read more

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Mindfulness meditation reduces pain

2009-11-12/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Interventions, Mindfulness, Physiology, Psychology

Even brief engagement with mindfulness meditation reduces pain: A few days ago the Journal of Pain published a study carried out by scientists at the University of North Carolina. In this studies participants took part in a 3-day mindfulness meditation practice of 20 minutes per day and evaluated the pain experienced in response to electrical stimulation. Participants rated the pain much lower after the meditation training than before. Several control manipulations were tested to confirm that the observed effect was... Read more

Mindfulness and Cognitive Control

Mindfulness and obesity

Mindfulness meditation – How does it work? Part Two

Mindfulness meditation – How does it work?

Mindfulness meditation reduces pain

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