명상도서관

명상도서관

Mindfulness meditation.
  • 자료유형센터
  • 저자명Kristeller, Jean L.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명APA(American Psychological Association)
  • 출판년도2007
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기APA PsycInfo
  • 발행사항p. 393–427
  • ISBN/ISSN
  • 소개/요약Mindfulness meditation is one of the two traditionally identified forms of meditative practice, along with concentrative meditation (Goleman, 1988). Mindfulness meditation, also referred to as "insight meditation" or "Vipassana practice," is playing an increasingly large role in defining how meditation can contribute to therapeutic growth and personal development. Although all meditation techniques cultivate the ability to focus and manage attention, mindfulness meditation primarily cultivates an ability to bring a nonjudgmental sustained awareness to the object of attention rather than cultivating focused awareness of a single object, such as a word or mantra, as occurs in concentrative meditation (see Carrington, Chapter 14, this volume; see record 2007-14796-014). Virtually all meditative approaches combine elements of both concentrative and mindfulness practice, but for therapeutic purposes, there are important differences in technique and application. In mindfulness meditation, attention is purposefully kept broader, utilizing a more open and fluid focus but without engaging analytical thought or analysis. Mindfulness meditation may utilize any object of attention--whether an emotion, the breath, a physical feeling, an image, or an external object--such that there is more flexibility in the object of awareness than there is in concentrative meditation and such that the object may shift from moment to moment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)