Understanding and Experiencing Mindfulness-Spectrum States
hosted byInstitute for Brain Potential (IBP)Understanding and Experiencing Mindfulness-Spectrum States is organized by Institute for Brain Potential (IBP).
Initial Release Date: 08/29/2022
Expiration Date: 08/29/2025
Duration: A 6-Hour Home Study Program for Health Professionals.
Description:
Mindfulness meditation is a practice based on developing cognitive flexibility and maintaining nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. Advances in neuroscience are revealing a spectrum of mindful states.
This program is designed to enable participants to acquire an understanding of how mindfulness-based meditation works, its health-related benefits, and how to practice and teach mindfulness.
Participants completing this program should be able to:
• Identify key experiential features of the mindfulness-spectrum states.
• Describe how to practice awareness of breath, mindfulness-based body scan, waking mindfulness, and tailored practices to improve mood, anxiety, and sleep.
• Discuss how mindfulness training can produce relieve pain,
• Identify how mindfulness alters the brain.
• List key features of a mindful lifestyle.
• Describe mindfulness techniques indicated for clients in medical, dental, and behavioral health practices
There Is No Time Like The Present
• Past and Future
• The Experience of Mindfulness Meditation
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Mindfulness-Based Mental Training
Mindfulness-Spectrum Techniques: There Is No Time Like the Present.
• Non-judgmental Breath Awareness
• Mindfulness-Based Body Scan
• Walking Mindfulness
• Eating Mindfulness Technique
• Tailored Interventions
Mindfulness-Based Pain Reduction and Health Promotion
• How Mindful Pain Reduction Works
• Indications
• An Adjunct to Opioid Medication
• Preparing Patients for Medical, Dental, and Surgical Interventions
• Acceptance of the Past, Present, and Future
How Mindfulness Alters the Brain
• You Don’t Have to be a Monk
• Improving Attention
• Elevating Mood
• Enhancing Nonjudgmental Awareness
• Reducing Somatic Distress
• Inhibiting Pain Sensitivity
• The Mindfulness Habit is Not Habit Forming
The Mindful Lifestyle
• Detaching from Negative Emotions
• Improving Emotional Resilience
• Acceptance
• Extending Healthy Cognitive Aging
