Presence

How Mindfulness and Meditation Shape Your Brain, Mind, and Life

Paul Verhaeghen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-939560-6 (ISBN)

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Research on the beneficial effects of mindfulness and meditation has boomed over the last decade. This volume is the first book-length review of this extensive body of research, aimed at the non-specialist reader, examining effects on brain activation, brain structure, attention, stress, and well-being, and how mindfulness works as therapy.

Mindfulness and one of the roads to it, meditation, have become increasingly popular as a way to promote health and well-being. Meditation can create mindfulness in daily life, which becomes an ingrained habit if applied consistently-it can boost immune function; lower levels of stress, anxiety, or depression; lift affect; regulate emotion more easily; and make you happier.

Presence reviews how meditation calms the body and what goes on inside the brain during meditation-how it impacts control over attention, awareness of the body, and the experience of self. It examines how meditation leaves telltale lasting traces in brain structure, and how it impacts important areas of life such as well-being, stress, and health. In addition, it examines how mindfulness can be useful as therapy, alleviating depression, anxiety, worry, and pain. A final chapter provides advice on how to meditate and practice mindfulness in a scientifically sound way, based on what we know about how meditation works.

Over the last decade, research on these beneficial effects has boomed in the cognitive and behavioral psychology and neuroscience literature, and Presence provides an overview of this research that is thorough and accessible for the curious meditator, seasoned or beginner, as well as for students and practitioners of contemplative science and related fields.

Paul Verhaeghen is professor in Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he mainly studies attention, memory, aging, and their interfaces, as well as the link between rumination, depression, and creativity. He is also a long-term meditator and occasional mindfulness teacher. He has previously written The Elements of Cognitive Aging: Meta-Analyses of Age-Related Differences in Processing Speed and Their Consequences (OUP 2014), as well as the award-winning novel Omega Minor (2007).

Preface
Chapter 1: What is Mindfulness?
CHAPTER 2: Your Body and Brain on Meditation
CHAPTER 3: The Meditating Brain in Action: Attention, Body, and Self
CHAPTER 4: Telltale Traces in the Brain
CHAPTER 5: From Monkey Mind to Monk's Mind: Mindfulness Practice and Attention
CHAPTER 6: Mindfulness Practice and Well-Being
CHAPTER 7: Mindfulness as Medicine
CHAPTER 8: Meditation and Mindfulness: Final Words
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	4
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 155 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	0-19-939560-8 / 0199395608
ISBN-13	978-0-19-939560-6 / 9780199395606
Zustand	Neuware