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Cultivating Mindfulness

Benefits of Mindfulness • Increased ability to handle stress • Improved sleep • Enhanced physical health and emotional health • Greater focus and concentration • Increased empathy and compassion for self and others

Sara Lazar, Ph.D. MGH Psychiatric Neuroscience Research Program Lazar, et al., NeuroReport Vol 16 No 17 28 November 2005

Neuroplasticity

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Default Mode Network Self-Referential Processing

Meditation Training Changes the Default Mode Greater activity in somatomotor cortex • Increased interoception – awareness of emotion as feeling in • the body Insula connectivity shifts from reactive judgement to • executive function Farb et al (2007)Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2(4), 313-122

Adapted from Daniel Siegel’s Mindsight Institute Wheel of Awareness

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