mindfulness
mindfulness – sostantivo non numerabile
Most of us have issues we find hard to let go and mindfulness can help us deal with them more productively.
Medical studies show that mindfulness meditation helps ease stress.
It seems to me that practicing mindfulness is an important part of any exercise program.
Mindfulness apps are trending in a big way. Here are three we’re happy we downloaded.
Viviamo in un mondo che va sempre di corsa, aperto 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7, con tutto lo stress che questo comporta, dunque non sorprende l’esigenza di trovare modi per ‘staccare la spina’ e raccogliere i pensieri. Oggi uno dei metodi più popolari per raggiungere tale obiettivo è la pratica della mindfulness, una forma di meditazione che porta al concentrarsi sul presente prestando attenzione al respiro, al corpo, ai pensieri, in modo da stare costantemente in relazione con se stessi e con il mondo e l’accettare quello che c’è, sia che si tratti di sofferenza o di piacere.
La mindfulness (o consapevolezza), è una disciplina che deriva dal pensiero buddista e pare debba la sua esistenza in Occidente a Jon Kabat-Zinn, professore di medicina presso la University of Massachusetts, che la usò negli anni ’70 su pazienti affetti da dolore cronico. In seguito venne applicata anche in campo psicoterapico e da lì si diffuse come metodo efficace di ridurre lo stress della vita quotidiana.
Origini del termine
Mindfulness deriva dall’aggettivo mindful, spesso usato in costruzioni come mindful of e mindful that. L’Oxford Dictionary fa risalire il significato attuale di mindful – quello originale, di ‘memore’ è del Trecento – al tardo XIX secolo, quando l’Occidente cominciò a sviluppare interesse nei confronti delle religoni e filosofie orientali.
mindfulness – noun U
Most of us have issues we find hard to let go and mindfulness can help us deal with them more productively.
Medical studies show that mindfulness meditation helps ease stress.
It seems to me that practicing mindfulness is an important part of any exercise program.
Mindfulness apps are trending in a big way. Here are three we’re happy we downloaded.
Many of us live in a high-speed, high-stress, 24/7 world, so it is not surprising that people are looking for ways to tune out and gather their thoughts. One popular method of doing this is to practise mindfulness, a simple form of meditation that involves sitting quietly and focusing on the present moment by paying attention to thoughts, sounds, breathing or parts of the body, bringing the attention back whenever the mind starts to wander.
Mindfulness is an ancient technique used in oriental religions such as Buddhism and practices such as yoga, but its popularity in the West seems to owe its existence to a US medical professor, Jon Kabat-Zinn, who started to use it in the 70s as a technique for treating patients with chronic pain. It was subsequently used to develop cognitive therapy for mental health problems and from there spread into the mainstream as a way of dealing with the stresses of daily life.
Origins
Mindfulness is derived from the adjective mindful, generally found in constructions such as mindful of and mindful that. Mindful, which dates all the way back to the birth of modern English in the 14th century, originally meant ‘full of memory’, and the noun with the meaning ‘the state and quality of being mindful’ is not much less ancient. The meaning in this post is much more recent, however. The OED dates it to the late 19th century, when Western writers started to take interest in the religions and philosophies of the East.
