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Daniel Siegel
An attentive brain. Scientific view for meditation
Daniel J. Siegel
The mindful brain
Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
Scientific editor Evgeny Pustoshkin
Reprinted with permission from W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and the literary agency Andrew Nurnberg
Legal support of the publishing house is provided by the law firm "Vegas-Lex".
© 2007 by Mind Your Brain, Inc.
© Russian translation, Russian edition, design. LLC "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", 2016
This book is well complemented by:
The New Science of Personal Transformation
Daniel Siegel
How to find harmony in our crazy world
Mark Williams, Danny Penman
The path to simplicity
Greg McKeon
What you and your children should know about the brain
John Medina
Dedicated to Caroline
Foreword
Welcome to the journey to the center of our life. Attentive awareness, the appeal of consciousness to the richness of the experience we are experiencing here and now, has an impact on physiological and mental processes and deepens interpersonal relationships. Now this can be considered a scientifically established fact. Being fully present in our awareness opens up new perspectives for a prosperous life for us.
All peoples of the world, all cultures have practices that help a person develop awareness of the present. The main world religions use various methods of focusing attention, from meditation and prayer to yoga and tai chi. Different traditions use different approaches, but they all have one goal - to deliberately focus awareness in such a way as to transform life. Mindful awareness is the universal goal of all cultures. Although the practice of mindfulness is often seen as a form of mindfulness management skill that focuses the mind on being in the present, this book takes an in-depth look at this practice as a form of maintaining a healthy relationship with oneself.
In my home discipline - the science of interpersonal relationships in the family - we use the concept attunement- attunement, consonance, adaptation. Through the prism of this concept, we explore the ways in which a person, for example, a parent, focuses attention on the inner world of another person, say, his own child. This focused alignment with the other person's mind forms neural connections that allow two people to feel that they “feel” each other. This state is vital if people want their relationships to be lively, energetic, full of mutual understanding and peace. Research shows that relationships based on this alignment can help build resistance and longevity. Our understanding of the practice of mindfulness is built on the basis of research on interpersonal attunement, as well as the self-regulating function of focused attention. They say that mindful awareness is a form of interpersonal attunement. In other words, maintaining attentive awareness is a way to become your own best friend.
We will look at how attunement can lead to the development of our brains in the direction of more balanced self-regulation. This is done by activating the process neurogal integration, providing flexibility of relations and understanding of oneself. This sense of being “felt”, a sense of being inseparably connected to the world, can help us understand how attunement with ourselves through the practice of mindful awareness can heal these physical and psychological dimensions and achieve well-being.
Studying the physiology of the brain helps to see the commonality of the mechanisms of these two forms of intra- and interpersonal attunement. By examining the neural aspect of our functioning and its possible correlation with mindful awareness, we can understand why and how mindfulness practice reliably strengthens the immune system, improves well-being, and enhances our capacity for healthy interpersonal relationships based on mutual understanding.
An attentive brain. A Scientific View of Meditation Daniel Siegel
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Title: Attentive Brain. A Scientific View of Meditation
By Daniel Siegel
Year: 2007
Genre: Biology, Foreign educational literature, Foreign psychology, Other educational literature, Psychotherapy and counseling
About the book “Attentive Brain. A Scientific View of Meditation by Daniel Siegel
What do Ford, Google, Goldman Sachs, Black Rock and General Mills have in common other than being incredibly successful? These corporations provide their employees with so-called mindfulness training that allows them to cope with the stress that awaits white collar workers both at and outside work. It's no secret that the abundance of professional tasks and the need to wade through tons of information garbage every day makes us scattered. Mindfulness is the state that Eastern monks and priests of some cults have learned to achieve, and only in a few cases have Europeans forced to work in offices. However, our contemporaries who managed to achieve "conscious wakefulness" are not only successful in their careers, but also happy people.
Now you also have a chance to learn meditation as a form of healthy perception of the world around you - Daniel Siegel's bestseller “Attentive Brain. A scientific view of meditation. " This book will tell the reader how to transform your life by learning to focus your mind. After reading it, you will understand that concentration and thoughtfulness do not require much effort, and concentrating attention on any daily activity is not only useful, but also very simple.
How many times have you had to sit out the last hour of your working day, answering calls automatically and thoughtlessly switching tabs? Or are you a workaholic who goes out of his way in the office to such an extent that at home he turns into a robot barely able to keep up a conversation? Daniel Siegel will tell you how to collect attention piece by piece: being a psychiatrist by training, the writer is well aware of the peculiarities of brain reactions and knows how to return to consciousness the qualities that are lost in the rhythm of city life.
“An attentive brain. A Scientific View of Meditation ”is a study of the influence of meditation and similar practices on our sensory perception and behavior. Daniel Siegel reveals the secrets of focusing consciousness, allowing you to turn off the "autopilot", abandoning ingrained patterns of behavior, and get out of the state when the days are indistinguishable from each other, faces merge, and emotions fade.
The Mindful Brain does not promise enlightenment - this is a book that tells how to learn to perceive information with the composure of Buddha and the greed of a business shark. It is for those who want to master practices rooted in millennia - and become a successful person in the 21st century.
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Daniel Siegel
An attentive brain. A Scientific View of Meditation
Daniel J. Siegel
The mindful brain
Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
Scientific editor Evgeny Pustoshkin
Reprinted with permission from W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and the literary agency Andrew Nurnberg
Legal support of the publishing house is provided by the law firm "Vegas-Lex".
© 2007 by Mind Your Brain, Inc.
© Russian translation, Russian edition, design. LLC "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", 2016
* * *This book is well complemented by:
Mindsight
The New Science of Personal Transformation
Daniel Siegel
Mindfulness
How to find harmony in our crazy world
Mark Williams, Danny Penman
Essentialism
The path to simplicity
Greg McKeon
Brain rules
What you and your children should know about the brain
John Medina
Dedicated to Caroline
Foreword
Welcome to the journey to the center of our life. Attentive awareness, the appeal of consciousness to the richness of the experience we are experiencing here and now, has an impact on physiological and mental processes and deepens interpersonal relationships. Now this can be considered a scientifically established fact. Being fully present in our awareness opens up new perspectives for a prosperous life for us.
All peoples of the world, all cultures have practices that help a person develop awareness of the present. The main world religions use various methods of focusing attention - from meditation and prayer to yoga and tai chi. Different traditions use different approaches, but they all have one goal - to deliberately focus awareness in such a way as to transform life. Mindful awareness is the universal goal of all cultures. Although the practice of mindfulness is often seen as a form of attention management skill that focuses the mind on being in the present, this book takes an in-depth look at this practice as a form of maintaining a healthy relationship with oneself.
In my home discipline - the science of interpersonal relationships in the family - we use the concept attunement- attunement, consonance, adaptation. Through the prism of this concept, we explore the ways in which a person, for example, a parent, focuses attention on the inner world of another person, say, his own child. This focused alignment with the other person's mind forms neural connections that allow two people to feel that they “feel” each other. This state is vital if people want their relationships to be lively, energetic, full of mutual understanding and peace. Research shows that relationships based on this alignment can help build resistance and longevity. Our understanding of the practice of mindfulness is built on the basis of research on interpersonal attunement, as well as the self-regulating function of focused attention. They say that mindful awareness is a form of interpersonal attunement. In other words, maintaining attentive awareness is a way to become your own best friend.
We will look at how attunement can lead to the development of our brains in the direction of more balanced self-regulation. This is done by activating the process neurogal integration, providing flexibility of relations and understanding of oneself. This sense of being “felt”, a sense of being inseparably connected to the world, can help us understand how attunement with ourselves through the practice of mindful awareness can heal these physical and psychological dimensions and achieve well-being.
Studying the physiology of the brain helps to see the commonality of the mechanisms of these two forms of intra- and interpersonal attunement. By examining the neural aspect of our functioning and its possible correlation with mindful awareness, we can understand why and how mindfulness practice reliably strengthens the immune system, improves well-being, and enhances our capacity for healthy interpersonal relationships based on mutual understanding.
I am not a follower of any particular tradition of meditation or mindfulness practice, nor have I ever been trained in meditation before starting this research project. Thus, the book presents a fresh perspective on meditation practice, not constrained by any one specific perspective. The book offers an exploration of the general concept of meditation. Mindful awareness can be cultivated in many ways, from the experience of attunement to relationships to educational approaches that promote contemplation to formal meditation practice.
Need
Currently, we desperately need a new way of being - within ourselves, in schools and in society. Modern culture in the course of its development, it has created a world burdened with many serious shortcomings, in which individuals suffer from alienation. Even schools have ceased to inspire achievement and have withdrawn from students. A society has been created, devoid of moral guidelines that would tell us how to move towards the creation of a global community of humanity.
I have watched my children grow up in a world where people are increasingly alienated from human relationships that are evolutionarily required for the normal functioning of our brains - these relationships are no longer part of our educational and social institutions and systems. V modern life Unfortunately, there are no human relationships that help to form vital neural connections. Not only do we lose the ability to tune in with each other - the hectic pace of life leaves us no time to tune in even to ourselves.
As a physician, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and educator, I was discouraged by how alienated so many clinicians are from mental health. During the lectures that I gave all over the world, I asked more than 65 thousand professional psychiatrists and psychotherapists the question: have they ever taken a course on consciousness or mental health... And 95 percent of the time I heard the answer "no". So what are we doing then? Isn't it time to realize the existence of consciousness as such - and not exclusively for the purpose of identifying the symptoms of various disorders?
Cultivating an understanding of consciousness based on direct experience is precisely the immediate goal of the practice of mindful awareness. We came to this world not only in order to understand our own consciousness, but in order to embrace our inner world and the souls of other people with kindness and compassion.
I deeply hope that by helping each other to align with our consciousness, we will be able to take ourselves and our culture beyond the many automatic reflexes that lead humanity along the path of self-destruction. The potential for human capacity for compassion and empathy is enormous. Realizing this potential in our difficult time can become a problem, but perhaps it can be resolved directly - through attunement with oneself, one's consciousness, one's relationships, accomplished from moment to moment.
Methodological approach
Mindful awareness is a very important, empowering inner experience, and this book will by necessity combine personal paths of knowledge with an objective scientific view of the nature of the brain and consciousness. This is the essence and highlight of the book - I tried to combine the subjective essence of the practice of mindful awareness with an objective analysis of direct sensory perception, supported by data scientific research, and at the same time outline the ways of practical application of these ideas.
A clear understanding of different ways of knowing is extremely important for moving forward: subjective experience, science and their professional application to practice are three independent sections of knowledge necessary as coordinates of reality, and their competent correlation is necessary for their combination to become useful and valuable. Prematurely combining these three elements can lead to erroneous conclusions about subjectivity, misinterpretation of scientific evidence, and illiterate applications of these ideas to clinical practice and teaching. A clear assimilation of ideas, experience and scientific research data will prepare us for the "pure" application of their synthesis to the work of helping people - we can help them learn, outgrow and alleviate suffering. If we are too quick to confuse these ideas in order to speed up their "practical" application, then the risk of confusion in our views of mind, consciousness and their work will increase.
Daniel Siegel
An attentive brain. A Scientific View of Meditation
Daniel J. Siegel
The mindful brain
Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
Scientific editor Evgeny Pustoshkin
Reprinted with permission from W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and the literary agency Andrew Nurnberg
Legal support of the publishing house is provided by the law firm "Vegas-Lex".
© 2007 by Mind Your Brain, Inc.
© Russian translation, Russian edition, design. LLC "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", 2016
* * *This book is well complemented by:
Mindsight
The New Science of Personal Transformation
Daniel Siegel
Mindfulness
How to find harmony in our crazy world
Mark Williams, Danny Penman
Essentialism
The path to simplicity
Greg McKeon
Brain rules
What you and your children should know about the brain
John Medina
Dedicated to Caroline
Foreword
Welcome to the journey to the center of our life. Attentive awareness, the appeal of consciousness to the richness of the experience we are experiencing here and now, has an impact on physiological and mental processes and deepens interpersonal relationships. Now this can be considered a scientifically established fact. Being fully present in our awareness opens up new perspectives for a prosperous life for us.
All peoples of the world, all cultures have practices that help a person develop awareness of the present. The main world religions use various methods of focusing attention - from meditation and prayer to yoga and tai chi. Different traditions use different approaches, but they all have one goal - to deliberately focus awareness in such a way as to transform life. Mindful awareness is the universal goal of all cultures. Although the practice of mindfulness is often seen as a form of attention management skill that focuses the mind on being in the present, this book takes an in-depth look at this practice as a form of maintaining a healthy relationship with oneself.
In my home discipline - the science of interpersonal relationships in the family - we use the concept attunement- attunement, consonance, adaptation. Through the prism of this concept, we explore the ways in which a person, for example, a parent, focuses attention on the inner world of another person, say, his own child. This focused alignment with the other person's mind forms neural connections that allow two people to feel that they “feel” each other. This state is vital if people want their relationships to be lively, energetic, full of mutual understanding and peace. Research shows that relationships based on this alignment can help build resistance and longevity. Our understanding of the practice of mindfulness is built on the basis of research on interpersonal attunement, as well as the self-regulating function of focused attention. They say that mindful awareness is a form of interpersonal attunement. In other words, maintaining attentive awareness is a way to become your own best friend.
We will look at how attunement can lead to the development of our brains in the direction of more balanced self-regulation. This is done by activating the process neurogal integration, providing flexibility of relations and understanding of oneself. This sense of being “felt”, a sense of being inseparably connected to the world, can help us understand how attunement with ourselves through the practice of mindful awareness can heal these physical and psychological dimensions and achieve well-being.
Daniel J. Siegel
The mindful brain
Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
Scientific editor Evgeny Pustoshkin
Reprinted with permission from W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and the literary agency Andrew Nurnberg
Legal support of the publishing house is provided by the law firm "Vegas-Lex".
© 2007 by Mind Your Brain, Inc.
© Russian translation, Russian edition, design. LLC "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", 2016
This book is well complemented by:
The New Science of Personal Transformation
Daniel Siegel
How to find harmony in our crazy world
Mark Williams, Danny Penman
The path to simplicity
Greg McKeon
What you and your children should know about the brain
John Medina
Dedicated to Caroline
Foreword
Welcome to the journey to the center of our life. Attentive awareness, the appeal of consciousness to the richness of the experience we are experiencing here and now, has an impact on physiological and mental processes and deepens interpersonal relationships. Now this can be considered a scientifically established fact. Being fully present in our awareness opens up new perspectives for a prosperous life for us.
All peoples of the world, all cultures have practices that help a person develop awareness of the present. The main world religions use various methods of focusing attention, from meditation and prayer to yoga and tai chi. Different traditions use different approaches, but they all have one goal - to deliberately focus awareness in such a way as to transform life. Mindful awareness is the universal goal of all cultures. Although the practice of mindfulness is often seen as a form of mindfulness management skill that focuses the mind on being in the present, this book takes an in-depth look at this practice as a form of maintaining a healthy relationship with oneself.
In my home discipline - the science of interpersonal relationships in the family - we use the concept attunement- attunement, consonance, adaptation. Through the prism of this concept, we explore the ways in which a person, for example, a parent, focuses attention on the inner world of another person, say, his own child. This focused alignment with the other person's mind forms neural connections that allow two people to feel that they “feel” each other. This state is vital if people want their relationships to be lively, energetic, full of mutual understanding and peace. Research shows that relationships based on this alignment can help build resistance and longevity. Our understanding of the practice of mindfulness is built on the basis of research on interpersonal attunement, as well as the self-regulating function of focused attention. They say that mindful awareness is a form of interpersonal attunement. In other words, maintaining attentive awareness is a way to become your own best friend.
We will look at how attunement can lead to the development of our brains in the direction of more balanced self-regulation. This is done by activating the process neurogal integration, providing flexibility of relations and understanding of oneself. This sense of being “felt”, a sense of being inseparably connected to the world, can help us understand how attunement with ourselves through the practice of mindful awareness can heal these physical and psychological dimensions and achieve well-being.
Studying the physiology of the brain helps to see the commonality of the mechanisms of these two forms of intra- and interpersonal attunement. By examining the neural aspect of our functioning and its possible correlation with mindful awareness, we can understand why and how mindfulness practice reliably strengthens the immune system, improves well-being, and enhances our capacity for healthy interpersonal relationships based on mutual understanding.
I am not a follower of any particular tradition of meditation or mindfulness practice, nor have I ever been trained in meditation before starting this research project. Thus, the book presents a fresh perspective on meditation practice, not constrained by any one specific perspective. The book offers an exploration of the general concept of meditation. Mindful awareness can be cultivated in many ways, from the experience of attunement to relationships to educational approaches that promote contemplation to formal meditation practice.
Need
Currently, we desperately need a new way of being - within ourselves, in schools and in society. Modern culture in the course of its development has created a world burdened with many serious shortcomings, in which individuals suffer from alienation. Even schools have ceased to inspire achievement and have withdrawn from students. A society has been created, devoid of moral guidelines that would tell us how to move towards the creation of a global community of humanity.
I have watched my children grow up in a world where people are increasingly alienated from human relationships that are evolutionarily required for the normal functioning of our brains - these relationships are no longer part of our educational and social institutions and systems. In modern life, unfortunately, there are no human relationships that help to form vital neural connections. Not only do we lose the ability to tune with each other - the hectic pace of life does not leave us time to tune in even to ourselves.
As a physician, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and educator, I was discouraged by how alienated so many clinicians are from mental health. During the lectures that I gave all over the world, I asked more than 65 thousand professional psychiatrists and psychotherapists the question: have they ever taken a course on consciousness or mental health... And 95 percent of the time I heard the answer "no". So what are we doing then? Isn't it time to realize the existence of consciousness as such - and not exclusively for the purpose of identifying the symptoms of various disorders?
Cultivating an understanding of consciousness based on direct experience is precisely the immediate goal of the practice of mindful awareness. We came to this world not only to understand our own consciousness, but to embrace our inner world and the souls of other people with kindness and compassion.
I deeply hope that by helping each other to align with our consciousness, we will be able to take ourselves and our culture beyond the many automatic reflexes that lead humanity along the path of self-destruction. The potential for human capacity for compassion and empathy is enormous. Realizing this potential in our difficult time can become a problem, but perhaps it can be resolved directly - through attunement with oneself, one's consciousness, one's relationships, accomplished from moment to moment.
