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[1] [2] She is widely known as the "mother of mindfulness" [3] and the "mother of positive psychology". [4] Langer studies the illusion of control, decision-making, aging, and mindfulness theory. [5] [2] Her most influential work is Counterclockwise, published in 2009, the first test of her mind/body unity theory. [6]
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a mindfulness-based program [web 25] developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, which uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people become more mindful. [3]
Marsha M. Linehan (born May 5, 1943) is an American psychologist and author. She is the creator of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a type of psychotherapy that combines cognitive restructuring with acceptance, mindfulness, and shaping.
Levitt continued working as a musician and a voice-over actress [6] until she gave up both in her mid-20s, because of the pressure she put herself under. [5]She began developing meditation and mindfulness sessions for corporations, together with short films, television productions, and books on mindfulness. [5]
Indian Shambhavi Chopra, a former textiles designer and divorced mother of two who is now co-director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies, writes of her 10-day Vipassanā meditation training at a retreat center in Germany in her book Yogini: The Enlightened Woman, [54] and encourages students to explore Vipassanā practice and mastery as ...
Full catastrophe living: using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. Delta Trade Paperbacks. 1991. ISBN 0-385-30312-2. Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life. Piatkus, 1994. ISBN 0-7499-1422-X. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. Hyperion Books, 1994. ISBN 1-4013-0778-7.
Susan Smalley is an American behavioral geneticist, writer and activist.The co-author of Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, she is the founder of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (MARC), and professor emerita in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA.
Breathe, You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing, Parallax Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0938077381. Revised in 1996. Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, Parallax Press, 1991. ISBN 81-216-0675-6. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Bantam reissue, 1992. ISBN 9780553351392.