...mindfulness decreases rumination, which is the act of being lost in thought about negative events as opposed to their solutions. A research paper from Harvard University found that our minds are lost in thought 47% of the time, which means we spend 40 years of our lives in thought and unhappy. But, when being mindful, one focuses on only the important things, thus decreasing rumination.Clearing the mind also makes it easier to pinpoint the causes of stress and get rid of it. Research shows that after practising mindfulness, the grey matter in your brain’s amygdala, a region known for its role in stress, can become smaller. Mindfulness encourages students to deal with stress instead of avoid it. Lastly, when being mindful, it becomes easier to hang onto important thoughts and memorize information. In a 2011 study, a group of participants underwent a month of mindfulness training, while another group had no training. After testing,they found that the group with mindfulness training had a much greater memory than the group without. This means that mindful practise can allow high school students to be able to memorize information better. Thus, integrating mindfulness into high schools will improve the emotional well-being of...
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...If so, what was it? Why were you surprised? If not, why not? The University of Phoenix Student Code Of Conduct didn’t surprise much because we all should have respect regardless if we are in a classroom setting on going to school online. People should mindful when writing a discussion in a proper tone to avoid coming off offensive to another. Going to school should be a good experience not an environment that’s uncomfortable for a person to share their idea, opinions and experiences. Academic Integrity did surprise me and also educated me on different types of plagiarism. I didn’t know the different know what it meant. I like that it brake them down with examples. Individuality play a major part and when I find information make sure I have all the resources. • What did you learn about the behaviors considered important for an ethical learner or student in the University of Phoenix learning community? I’ve learned there’s a lot of different types of behaviors such as strive for honesty in all scientific communications. Integrity, be open to criticism and new ideas, avoid discrimination against students on sex, and ethnicity. Have social respect prevent social harm through research and public education. Be mindful what you say it can cause or make some uncomfortable. Know and obey the Laws. • Why are the Student Code of Conduct and Student Code of Academic Integrity important to you and the University of Phoenix learning community? The Student...
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...Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Reaction Paper Denise Dugan California Baptist University Author Note This paper is being submitted to Dr. Kristen White in partial fulfillment for the requirements for MFT Counseling Techniques, PSY 525, on March 1, 2014. Abstract Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a group therapy approach that utilizes mindfulness techniques and cognitive therapy for depression relapse prevention. This paper will reflect the effectiveness of MBCT from a personal worldview. It will also discuss if MBCT can be utilized in different areas of psychological treatment including: marriage and family therapy, patients with anxiety, culturally diverse groups, and in working with religious patients. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Reaction Paper Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a group therapy treatment that integrates mindfulness and cognitive therapy practices to help individuals that suffer from recurrent depression in the prevention of depression relapse. Zindel Segal, John Teasdale, and Mark Williams developed MBCT, which was adapted from the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) work of Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center for helping people with chronic physical illnesses (Sipe & Eisendrath, 2011). The core element of this treatment modality is mindfulness. MBCT teaches focus on the here and now and to be mindful of the thoughts that are taking place. Mindfulness...
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...Meditation and mindfulness are words once mostly associated with hippies and monks. However, these practices are getting a lot of attention as a potential way to combat stress and illness in our modern world. This paper is a review of the book 10-Minute Mindfulness by S. Scott and B. Davenport (2017). This paper will discuss why I chose to review this book, two topics of interest that made an impression on me, scientific corroboration of claims about meditation and personal and professional application of the reading. Book When asked to chose a book to read for this class I saw the title “10- Minute Mindfulness” and knew immediately that would be the book I wanted to read (Scott & Davenport, 2017, p.1). Mindfulness through daily meditation is something I have...
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...Racial and ethnic profiling/racial profiling. Criminal Justice Ethics, 26(1), 3-20. Retrieved from Criminal Justice Periodicals Index database. f -The purpose for me picking this resource was to help me better my future to get more information on the job requirements to succeed in criminal justice as a person. Also look in any programs to help me get ideas to study more in this field. The resource provides information about careers in different areas of criminal justice like FBI, the C.I.A and even being the police. Criminal Justice field gives out the major points in jobs to help out college students to mindful in the choice they pick. This resource gives knowledge to help further your career if you really would like to become something even if you have different options. The resource will also give me ideas to pursue something else if I change my mind if I don’t want to be an FBI AGENT. My Relevance: Describe how this reference will be useful in your Research Paper. -Tanasichuk, Carrie L.; Wormith, J. Stephen. Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice. Oct 2012, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p415-441. 27p. e your APA Style reference here. -My purpose for me picking this article was to identify crimes threw out the United States as one. The main focus I had on this article was crime investigations with crimes like murder, robbery, and even rape. People can’t settle for less when it comes to major crimes but as I read over the article I got disappointed...
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...individuals more well rounded and mindful. According to the “Five Traditional Criteria” in the Essential Guide to Critical Reading and Writing, this article does a good job in exhibiting accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage. Boyatzis has his PhD from Harvard University in Social Psychology and has been an active theorist in the field for over 40 years (Richard Boyatzis, Ph.D.). Because of his credentials and popularity in the field, I would consider this article to have strong authority. Coverage is also exhibited since Boyatzis provides references to other credible resources, and is concise about the topic he is covering (Walsh, Pezalla, & Marshall, 2014). Boyatzis’s thesis in the article is that by crossing disciplines, such as neuroscience and business management, we can “expand our theories and find new directions for out scholarly work” (Boyatzis, 2014, p. 303). From his thesis, I would consider the paper to be objective by also being opinionated in an appropriate, professional manner. The resources cited in the paper are all current; the oldest reference was from 2007, which is five years within the published date of this paper. However, due to the briefness of the article, there were only nine cited references. Also, since this article takes on a more opinionated approach, it doesn’t include more than just an abstract, body, and summary. However, Boyatzis makes sure to refer to various studies around the research...
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...Title of Educational Activity: Mindful Listening Purpose / Goals: To provide information and tools to assist the health care professional in communicating more effectively through the client/patient / care giver relationship, as listening is a significant part of the communication process. M0707121 Objectives List the educational objectives. 1. Response to and discuss the question: “What is communication?” Content (Topics) Provide an outline of the content/topic presented and indicate to which objective(s) the content/topic is related. I. A. B. C. D. E. II. A. B. C. D. E. F. III. 1. 2. 3. 1. Communication - What it is It is NOT about words It is about connecting with another person It is about deep listening It is about frank and honest dialog It is about trust Development of listening skills Increase in patient satisfaction Increase in patient retention Increase in best possible clinical outcomes. Increase in patient loyalty Increase in word of mouth referrals Increase in patient cooperation compliance The Myths of Listening Listening means agreeing: agreeing is not good listening Listening is a lot of hard work: focused, deep listening takes 45 seconds Listening requires you have to “act like you’re listening.” Listening takes too much time: people interrupt their clients after the first 12-14 seconds of the client speaking. What Makes A Mindful Listener A. A mindful listener “gets the whole picture”, not just the words but gestures, tone, attitude, expressions and pauses...
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...The research paper that I will being doing will focused the Two Dollar Challenge which will be taking place April 4th through the 8th. This program was founded around the astounding statistic that nearly half of the world survives on less than two dollars a day. The Two Dollar Challenge promotes a mindful movement to end global poverty. According to them here is what we can do: “We can get to know what we do not know about the economic lives of the poor. We can unlearn what we have learned about the end of global poverty. We can reconsider our role in the story of poverty’s end.” (Our Purpose) The point of the challenge of living off of two dollars each day for a week is to “push you outside your comfort zone to critically engage with and empathetically reevaluate global poverty and your role in its end.” (Our Purpose)....
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...Career Plan Analysis Paper Business Communications for Accountants 230 Chelsea Baker June 29, 2015 Instructor Christa Deeden Career Plan Analysis Paper This course applies to my career plan in many ways. Based on the Career Exploration I have chosen five career options for myself and I feel this will help a lot with a few of them. However the one I am most concerned with is the one at the top of my list which a bookkeeper/accounting clerk. Now when I first thought about this course and that job I could not really figure how to two could work together because my impression was being bookkeeper I would not have to do much communication however that thought was wrong. Being a bookkeeper is a vital part of a company because you are probably handle all the number of the company and because of that many people will look to you to see how the company is doing financially. This course has provided me with information on how to communicate this information properly, which might be the best way to do so and what type of stuff one would need to keep in mind when preparing reports, memos, etc. It has also showed me that it is not as simple as just writing something that there is a proper way to do so and one should be mindful when doing so. It also so thought me that one should do research when dealing with companies of different cultures because it is so easy to say the wrong thing without even knowing it just because words mean different things when you dealing with different...
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...countertransference. When exposed to this type of trauma, people need to identify and deal with their own emotional reactions and how this relates to their own experiences. As well as modulate their feelings and organize their thinking (Geller, Madsen, & Ohrenstein, 2004). The capacity to empathize, to feel with another person is the focal point of psychotherapy (McCann & Pearlman, 1990). That being the case, clinicians need to learn how to think clearly, modulate their emotions, feel effective when working with clients and maintain help that they are going to be effective. But, if the clinician is put into these states of stress by virtue of listening to others, they may feel inclined to withdraw from their clients (Geller et. al, 2004). When creating a psychotherapeutic relationship between a therapist and a client one approach that is considered as compatible with our theories and clinical foundations is that of the mindfulness based approach. According to Germer (2005), there are two general approaches that clinicians have applied in their clinical work. That of being mindful in psychotherapy and mindfulness – based psychotherapy (Turner, 2008). These two approaches have been shown to be effective and beneficial when in a therapeutic environment. Through...
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...Frankenstein There are no terminal diseases or people suffering from being paralyzed, medical technology and science have advanced to incredible heights. A woman is crippled by the loss of her five year old child, but she can go to the a medical facility and use his DNA to have a clone made, the same exact little boy she just lost; a football player was in a bad car wreck and is now paralyzed, his life revolves around his favorite sport that he can no longer play, again with science he can be healed, scientist use stem cells to repair his spinal cord, he is back in the game. This may sound amazing, but it comes with its luggage, a very high cost, other lives, more specifically human lives. With stem cell research and cloning can fix many problems, but the ways to make this possible requires human life in the form of embryos. Not only that but having the power to chose who lives and who dies is a power no human should have, that is a power reserved only for God himself. According to Merriam-Webster, bioethics is the ethics of life and biology, in the context of this paper, it is the ethics of creating and altering life. It deals with the ethics and implications of stem cells, In Vitro Fertilization, cloning and related issues. For years cloning and reviving organisms have been the imagination of writers and directors and dreams of scientists, but now, those dreams are possible with science and technology being advanced more and more everyday. Stem cells can be used to repair...
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...for a graduate student. I tend to write the way I speak and my grammar is worst than my eight year old sons. I can use the fact that english is not my first language, but I honestly think, I have been so used to speaking and writing in slang so much it is hard for me not to now. I knew I had to start correcting myself and be more mindful of my grammar and language once I started teaching. It is still a work in progress, I try to usually keep my messages to the parents short and simple. I also write in cursive, that way when I misspell a word it is harder to see. My research skills has not been any better. I am still learning how to cite my citations. I cannot tell the difference between MLA and APA format. I tend to have a hard time putting what I need into my own words and summarizing. I do not like writing papers, but it is unavoidable in graduate school. After reviewing the research guides and completing the avoiding plagiarism tutorial I now have a little bit of a guide to follow. My strength has always been my ability to take notes. I love to write, I tend to have a hard time summarizing, so I write everything done. When I am doing a research, I would write down anything that has to do with my topic. Having the information has never been a problem for me. I enjoy doing an outline, writing in phrases and picking out key words. I can look for sources online as well as in the library. My weakness if my spelling and grammar. I also write a lot of run on sentences and fragments...
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...Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft Grand Canyon University: HLTH 310V Abstract As nurses it is important to understand that there is not just one faith, but there are numerous faiths. In order to provide quality of care to our patient, it is important we have insight and understanding to one’s belief. Three religions that are often encountered in health care are Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism with similarities and differences shared within the religions. This paper describes each religion with its spiritual perspectives on healing and its healing components. Also discussed is how the health care providers spiritual belief may differ from the patient beliefs. The comparison is also made with the religions and Christianity with its philosophy of faith and healing. Health Care Providers and Faith Diversity Today health care facilities are faced with patients of diverse backgrounds in religion and faith beliefs. Our job as health care providers is not only to provide promotional, preventative, curative and rehabilitation to our patient and families but to also provide them with emotional and spiritual healing as well. It is important to gain information about our patient and the religion they use to practice with, in order to help in their healing process. Three faiths that will be discussed are Islam, Buddism, and Hindusim. These three faiths will also be compared to Christianity. Islam is a religion in which they voluntary submission or...
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...Chapter 1 Expanding the Gates of Perception Christopher Johns Aldous Huxley (1959) reflected on his experience of taking mescalin and its impact in enabling him to access the greater ‘mind at large’ and in doing so to circumvent the brain and nervous system as some sort of reducing valve. In other words, taking mescalin blew fuses and opened Huxley’s mind to perceive things in new and different ways. Hence the title of his book, The Doors of Perception. As we go about our everyday business we take the world largely for granted and respond habitually. Meaning is projected into events that enable us to take things in our stride, and in doing so, reinforce our sense of self. Thus the multiple doors of possibility are not always visible: instead, existing knowledge and experience are defended as if the ego itself is threatened. The more we know, the more threatened we become when that knowing is challenged. A certain degree of anxiety and fear is useful for learning (see Joyce 1984; Casement 1985; Freshwater 2000). However, too much fear and anxiety is not conducive to learning. Perhaps we all need mescalin in the morning to heighten our perceptions, to lower our defences and open ourselves to possibility. From a Buddhist perspective we are caught in a world of samsara, depicted by the cock, the snake and the pig – craving, aversion and delusion respectively – who chase one another around and around, locked into a world of greed, hate and ignorance. It is a restless world of...
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...|[pic] |Instructor Policies | | | | | |HUM 105 | | |World Mythology | | | | |Campus/Learning Center: South | |Facilitator Information | | | | | |Dr. Raphael A. Mizzell | |Mizzela@email.phoenix.edu (University of...
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