moment some people add you know without judging

it so just really observing and then the practice of meditation is a more you

know kind of structured disciplined practice often with some kind of an

anchor where you're resting attention the breath or something like that

in some specific conditions the evidence is a little bit stronger on the effects

of mindfulness meditation and those are depression anxiety and chronic pain

the idea behind mindfulness based cognitive therapy is that by training

people in mindfulness meditation we increase their capacity for inter

reception and for being able to listen to their body so to speak and to drop in

the body and that will actually help them disengage from this cognitive

rumination with negative thoughts about self

we're testing these hypotheses in the brain by looking at the brain networks

that are involved and having people do specific tasks in the scanner to test if

they engage in these tests differently after having received the mindfulness

training

the purpose of this research is to find out the mechanisms of mindfulness

training in the brain and from that information hopefully make some changes

to the intervention that take those mechanisms into account for example

doing more of certain types of practices if we think these are the ones that are

key and perhaps doing less of other aspects of the mindfulness training if

science finds that these elements don't actually have so much of an impact I

think you kind of have this daily practice so that as you go about your

day you're able to be mindful and present or notice when you're not

because it's nobody does it 100%