How to Realize Mindfulness and Soothe the Mind and Brain

Abstract

  This paper will discuss how to realize mindfulness and soothe the mind and brain. While explaining from the perspective of “not closing the mind,” “not being swallowed up,” “self-as-process or awareness of the present moment,” and “self-as-context or awareness of the field of experience,” I illustrate how to realize mindfulness referring the transition from focused meditation to observation meditation practice. Then, how the practice of mindfulness changes the brain to produce clinical effects is explained while introducing our research using an EEG model of mind wandering.