Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 4.2 Meditation and Mindfulness

Use your experience with the app in Chapter App: 4.2 Meditation and Mindfulness or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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Insight Timer includes a number of resources to aid with meditation, an activity designed to increase focused attention and mindfulness, which can be described as .
Mindfulness and meditation are practices designed to raise the practitioner’s awareness of their surroundings, a property referred to as .
Delilah is interested in the brain changes that meditation and mindfulness can produce in practitioners. According to brain scan studies, these changes .
fMRI studies have shown that individuals high in mindfulness tend to have decreased activity in the , the part of the brain associated with anxiety, when viewing images intended to evoke negative emotions.
Mindfulness and meditation are not the only activities that can temporarily put the practitioner in a different frame of mind. For example, some people have experiences that feel vaguely familiar, even when they haven’t happened before, a phenomenon known as .