MINDFULNESS | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. For most of the farmers, knowing the customer also includes mindfulness of socio-economic class and income levels. Defining mindfulness as the ability to challenge stereotypes, they advance the idea that training in mindful thinking will reduce ageism. This commentary challenges the explanatory adequacy of cognitive nativism, suggesting that memetics has as much claim to utility and "mindfulness" as innate mental modules do. On the other hand, the tide of globalization threatens the good old practices of familialism and communitarianism and the scope for mindfulness to other persons. Mindfulness of strong cultural currents that give preference to youth over age is key to a critical social gerontology. The sense of trust, goodwill, connection or familialism and mindfulness are all about the traditional type of social capital. This is frequently addressed though fostering of mindfulness. A candidate for the strategy of creation is a virtue we might call mindfulness. In mindfulness training a person learns to be an observer of the flow of impulses, emotions, and events, without allowing them to compel actions that are not reflectively endorsed. For skills related to positive affect, patients learn to increase current pleasant events, work toward long-term goals involving positive affect, and apply mindfulness techniques to positive affect. And what does this mindfulness entail? Instead of breathing a collective sigh of relief and closing the books on the breach, it displayed collective mindfulness and recognized areas of its total performance that needed reform. Similarly, 'mindfulness' in question 44 is contrasted to the concept of 'competitiveness' under globalization. They suggest that mindfulness describes the condition in which one is attentive to what is occurring, and the consequences of actions, therefore providing a basis for more informed, self-endorsed actions.

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MINDFULNESS | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary