Presence

This book is a profound, illuminating description of a journey into mindfulness. Perhaps even more rare, it is so well written it is both practical and a great joy to read.>

Auteur
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).

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

• 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