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S: PT – https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/mindfulness (last access: 22 July 2017); APA – http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/07-08/ce-corner.aspx (last access: 22 July 2017).
N: 1. From adjective mindful (mid-14c., from mind (n.) + -ful; related: Mindfully; mindfulness; Old English myndful meant “of good memory.”; Old English also had myndig (adj.) “mindful, recollecting; thoughtful,” which if it had lived might have yielded a modern *mindy) and word forming element -ness (denoting action, quality, or state, attached to an adjective or past participle to form an abstract noun, from Old English -nes(s), from Proto-Germanic *in-assu- -cognates: Old Saxon -nissi, Middle Dutch -nisse, Dutch -nis, Old High German -nissa, German -nis, Gothic -inassus-, from *-in-, noun stem, + *-assu-, abstract noun suffix, probably from the same root as Latin -tudo).
2. In 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn recruited chronically ill patients not responding well to traditional treatments to participate in his newly formed eight-week stress-reduction program, which we now call Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Since then, substantial research has mounted demonstrating how mindfulness-based interventions improve mental and physical health—comparably so to other psychological interventions.
3. “Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally,” says Kabat-Zinn. “It’s about knowing what is on your mind.”
4. Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, with compassion, and open-hearted curiosity. Through cultivating mindful awareness, we discover how to live in the present moment rather than brooding about the past or worrying about the future.
S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=mindfulness; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=-ness (last access: 22 July 2017). 2 & 3. https://www.mindful.org/jon-kabat-zinn-defining-mindfulness/ (last access: 22 July 2017). 4. TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/W44Nst (last access: 22 July 2017).
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