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Mindfulness (psychology), Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining Metacognition, meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment. Mindfulness derives from Sati (Buddhism), ''sati'', a significant element of Hinduism, Hindu and Buddhism, Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, ''Vipassanā'', and Tibetan meditation techniques. Though definitions and techniques of mindfulness are wide-ranging, Buddhist traditions describe what constitutes mindfulness, such as how perceptions of the past, present and future arise and cease as momentary sense-impressions and mental phenomena. Individuals who have contributed to the popularity of mindfulness in the modern Western culture, Western context include Thích Nhất Hạnh, Joseph Goldstein (writer), Joseph Goldstein, Herbert Benson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Richard J. Davidson. Clinical psychology and psychiatry since the 1970s have developed a number of therapeutic applications based on mindfulne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cognitive Skill
Cognitive skills, also called cognitive functions, cognitive abilities or cognitive capacities, are brain-based skills which are needed in acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information and reasoning. They have more to do with the mechanisms of how people learn, remember, solve problems and pay attention, rather than with actual knowledge. Cognitive skills or functions encompass the domains of perception, attention, memory, learning, decision making, and language abilities. Specialisation of functions Cognitive science has provided theories of how the brain works, and these have been of great interest to researchers who work in the empirical fields of brain science. A fundamental question is whether cognitive functions, for example visual processing and language, are autonomous modules, or to what extent the functions depend on each other. Research evidence points towards a middle position, and it is now generally accepted that there is ''a degree'' of modularity in as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |