Mark L. Beischel – Calming the Brain through Mindfulness

Mindfulness Practiques help penitentiary inmates form intimate relationships and teach responsible parenting skills.

Mark L. Beischel – Calming the Brain through Mindfulness

NEUROBIOLOGY AND MINDFULNESS

• Social by nature, our brains are social
• The foundation is laid during the First year of your life
• “Relational trauma” Schore
• The limbic system
• Frontal lobe development
• The “Executive” Control center
• Neurotransmitters
• DNA telomeres​

INVESTIGATING EMOTORIAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS

• Evolution of the Survival and cortex
• Fear and anxiety are solved through Relationships that include spiritual aspects
• Intimacy, the mirror neurons
• The development of attunement
• Intimacy skills:
  • Self-awareness
  • Empathy
  • Communication of emotions
  • Conflict resolution
  • Keep your commitment
• Neurobiology and mindfulness meditation
• Mindfulness can have positive effects on your emotions

MINDFULNESS & EMOTIONAL REGULATION

• Fear and anxiety are an evolutionary function
• Circuits both fast and slow
• Anxiety and fear
• Stress and hippocampal injury
• Regulating fear

ELICITING THE RELAXATION RESPONSE: RESEARCH OF HERBERT BENSON

• Meditation and visualization from the East
• Gains through Benson’s method
• Gene expression can differ
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Cancer
  • Heart disease
  • Also, the relaxation response can be evoked by:
    • Exercise
    • Music
    • Repetitive prayers
• Benson’s eight-step program for eliciting the Relaxation response

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MINDFULNESS in MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT

• Mechanisms for action
  • The most important thing to focus on the Present
  • Definition of Shapiro, Kubat-Zinn –self-Regulation and self-Management
  • Re-Non-perceiving-Judging
• Eight themes from Teasdale, Williams and Segal
• Rogers’ mindfulness exercise
• MindfulnessSpirituality, cultural competence, and spirituality
• The therapist’s mindfulness attitudes:
  • Self-Compassion and attunement
  • Empathy and attunement towards others
  • Emotional regulation

EASTERN AND WESTERN EDITATION

• History of Eastern and Western Meditation
• The “Desert Fathers”
• Evolution of meditation and contemplation
• Neuroscience of meditation, contemplation and contemplation
• Maslow’s self-Meditation and actualizing your potential
• Meditation, attachment theory and self-actualization
• Newberg’s research on the “Centering Prayer” Keating

INTERVENTIONS AND MINDFULNESS TRAINING

• Children and adolescents
• Emotional regulation disorders
• Chronic depression
• Anxiety disorders
• Addiction treatment

CASE STUDY

• Mindfulness Practices help penitentiary prisoners form intimate relationships and learn responsible parenting skills.