Mindfulness

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Introduction
Mindfulness is an ordinary cultivatable cognitive ability related to the well-being of psychology in both the adults and young people. It is characterized by the consciousness and approval of current opinion, emotions, and physical sensation (Bien and Beverly 2003). Mindfulness is intentionally developed using a secular method borrowed from the meditation practices of the Buddhists (Emet 2012). Mindfulness meditation training programs have been familiar to the adults and the small extent to children and young people. However, after realizing that it would be helpful to young people by promoting their social and emotional helping and improve their academic performance, a mindfulness meditation training program have become a priority …show more content…

The psychological brain changes accumulate through neuroplastic response repeating a task now and then. fMRI is a brain imaging procedure that provides proof that attention to the left hippocampal grey substance increases during MBSR (Kabat-Zinn 2012). The study of mindfulness has shown the positive correlation between the time spent in practicing and improvement in clinical depression symptoms, mindfulness, and well-being. It argues that reputation determines the instantaneous and long-term therapeutic effect of mindfulness. However, there are no scientific facts to prove that the time spent in the practice of mindfulness meditation determines the symptom improvement. Although the medical practice lasts for eight weeks, shorter mindfulness programs yield positive effects too. If a person spent 20 minutes in meditation for five days, it resulted in reduced depression, anxiety anger, and fatigue. On the other hand, it improved immune-reactivity as well as decreased cortical (Saltzman 2014). If a person underwent mindfulness training for four days, there was the improvement of mindfulness, visual-spacial memory, working memory and sustained concentration. It proved that the time spent in the practice did not affect the increase in sustained attention. Besides, pre-task motivation increases concentration task performance more compared to everyday practice alone. In other words, the trait does not support task engagement. Instead, the state

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