Looking for ideas
I stumpled on Dr Kozak's site on Mindfulness and golf.
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I have been thinking about mindfulness and "drawing on the right side of the brain" Betty Edwards book. It give a lot of ideas on how to keep it the presense by looking for shapes. Also there is a contradiction. One mindfulness skill is to "label" your observations, but that is not a good way to work with your "right side of the brain".
keskiviikko 12. joulukuuta 2007
sunnuntai 2. joulukuuta 2007
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
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Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body--mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training.
Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate Chinese students given 5 days of 20-min integrative training showed greater improvement in conflict scores on the Attention Network Test, lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity.
Longitudinal research examining and comparing the effects of different styles of meditation on brain and mental function and the duration of such effects is needed.'' Styles of meditation differ. This background raises the possibility that combining several key components of body and mind techniques with features of meditation and mindfulness traditions, while reducing reliance on control of thoughts, may be easier to teach to novices because they would not have to struggle so hard to control their thoughts.
Therefore, integrative body--mind training (IBMT; or simply integrative meditation) was developed in the 1990s, and its effects have been studied in China since 1995. Abbreviations: IBMT, integrative body--mind training; ANT, Attention Network Test; POMS, Profile of Mood States.
In short, the experimental group would show greater improvement in the executive attention network related to self-regulation; the Raven's intelligence test, which is known to differ with improved executive attention; mood scales related to self-control; and cortisol and immunoreactivity measures of stress to a mental arithmetic challenge.
The experimental group had a significantly lowered cortisol response to the mental stress after training than did the control group.
In the ANT and POMS, the experimental group showed significantly greater improvement after 5 days of IBMT than the relaxation control group.
Because we randomly assigned subjects to experimental and control groups and used objective tests with researchers blind to the condition, we conclude that IBMT improved attention and self-regulation more than the relaxation control.
The IBMT provides a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training by using appropriate experimental and control methods similar to those used to test drugs or other interventions.
Although no direct measures of brain changes were used in this study, some previous studies suggest that changes in brain networks can occur.
The current results with the ANT indicate that IBMT improves functioning of this executive attention network. The most important thing for coaches was to create a harmonious and relaxed atmosphere and give proper feedback for effective practice. The coach believes everyone has full potential and equality and that his/her job is to find and enjoy a person's inner beauty and capacities to help them think better and unfold their potentials rather than to teach them.
(Tang et al., 2007)
References
Tang, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, J., Fan, Y., Feng, S., Lu, Q., et al. (2007). Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(43), 17152-17156.
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Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body--mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training.
Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate Chinese students given 5 days of 20-min integrative training showed greater improvement in conflict scores on the Attention Network Test, lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity.
Longitudinal research examining and comparing the effects of different styles of meditation on brain and mental function and the duration of such effects is needed.'' Styles of meditation differ. This background raises the possibility that combining several key components of body and mind techniques with features of meditation and mindfulness traditions, while reducing reliance on control of thoughts, may be easier to teach to novices because they would not have to struggle so hard to control their thoughts.
Therefore, integrative body--mind training (IBMT; or simply integrative meditation) was developed in the 1990s, and its effects have been studied in China since 1995. Abbreviations: IBMT, integrative body--mind training; ANT, Attention Network Test; POMS, Profile of Mood States.
In short, the experimental group would show greater improvement in the executive attention network related to self-regulation; the Raven's intelligence test, which is known to differ with improved executive attention; mood scales related to self-control; and cortisol and immunoreactivity measures of stress to a mental arithmetic challenge.
The experimental group had a significantly lowered cortisol response to the mental stress after training than did the control group.
In the ANT and POMS, the experimental group showed significantly greater improvement after 5 days of IBMT than the relaxation control group.
Because we randomly assigned subjects to experimental and control groups and used objective tests with researchers blind to the condition, we conclude that IBMT improved attention and self-regulation more than the relaxation control.
The IBMT provides a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training by using appropriate experimental and control methods similar to those used to test drugs or other interventions.
Although no direct measures of brain changes were used in this study, some previous studies suggest that changes in brain networks can occur.
The current results with the ANT indicate that IBMT improves functioning of this executive attention network. The most important thing for coaches was to create a harmonious and relaxed atmosphere and give proper feedback for effective practice. The coach believes everyone has full potential and equality and that his/her job is to find and enjoy a person's inner beauty and capacities to help them think better and unfold their potentials rather than to teach them.
(Tang et al., 2007)
References
Tang, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, J., Fan, Y., Feng, S., Lu, Q., et al. (2007). Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(43), 17152-17156.
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Mindfullness and learning motor skills (Golf)
I am interested in learning about mindfullness. I think it might be a good tool for learning motor skills like golf - and also a tool for mental game of golf.
My way of learning is to write about things. It would be nice to get a group of people interested, but learning by my self is okay, too. I've started a wikiversity for this project - and I might enter some golf forums - like Golftuitiononline.
This is just a test to see how the process could start...
My way of learning is to write about things. It would be nice to get a group of people interested, but learning by my self is okay, too. I've started a wikiversity for this project - and I might enter some golf forums - like Golftuitiononline.
This is just a test to see how the process could start...
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