Mindfulness, to me, is being present in my daily life. It’s not just being at my daughter’s cheer games, but truly being there and participating in watching her and the other girls. Mindfulness is sitting with my grandpa and not just listening to stories from long ago, but actually hearing the stories. It’s me blocking out making my to-do list in my head while I take a shower. For me to incorporate more mindfulness into my life, the very first thing I need to do is to try and cut back on distractions that tend to pull me away – namely my cell phone. As a parent, I want to capture every picture I can of my kids, but after this reading and some soul searching I can remember plenty of times I was stuck behind my phone trying to get a perfect …show more content…
But I am human and sometimes let my emotions get the best of me. I was arguing with my mother over a child raising tactic, she felt I should be going a different route (the one she used on us growing up) versus the way I wanted to try. We both got heated and I said something to the effect that her version turned out so well since all of us children has screwed up in life. I knew it would be hurtful to her, because she takes our hurting and downfalls personally (probably more than she should). I immediately felt guilty for what I said; I honestly didn’t want to hurt my mother. My guilt could have been a positive action, if I would have had an open dialog with my mother about my feelings and expectations as her being the grandmother and me as the mother. I didn’t do it at that moment, and I wish I had. It took a few more episodes for me and my mother to finally have that conversation.
Road rage is definitely as response to high-stress lives, not only the act of driving. If I have a fabulous day, running on time and everything is running smoothly and someone cuts me off or sits too long at a red light, I will be understanding and forgiving of their actions. But, if my day at work was terrible, my kids aren’t listening to me and my husband forgot to do a simple task and someone cuts me off or doesn’t use a turn signal I can get irate, blow my horn, and make hand gestures. My personal level of road rage will definitely parallel from the day I have
Mindfulness should be taught in schools because it has been found to have a positive impact on the students ' mental well-being as mentioned above, as well as having positive impacts on a wide range of physical and mental health conditions, on learning and cognition, and on emotional and social skills and wellbeing among adults, according to Katherin (2012). Very little research has been done about mindfulness among the young people as compared to among the adults, with studies carried out so far having some methodological limitations such as limited use of control groups or randomization and small numbers, which result in tentative conclusions. Nevertheless, work is growing rapidly and the results are promising which suggests that mindfulness in schools is well worth doing.
The author of this academic journal explains a survey that was conducted for the second year in a row about the topic on road rage. It discusses various demographic, geographic and economic of people that were taken from the U.S Census Bureau of 25 largest metro areas. Only a f
A parent might walk into a classroom in the middle of mindfulness moments and weep for joy. An entire classroom filled with silent, still, and reflecting teenagers might seem like a miracle, but that is far from how the students perceive it.
When I think of mindfulness I contemplate of ones empathetic to interpret a situation. For two weeks every night before I went to bed, I wrote down three items I was grateful for. Some of the words were “Health”,” Family”,” Friends”,” Food”, and” Childhood”. This list goes on, what I grasped is whatever I did that day predisposed what I wrote down. On days I lifted I would appreciate my health, when I went away with my family I recognized how much I appreciated my family, when I was home for a day I realized how much I adored my bed. The new custom I obtained made me appreciate how indebted I am in my life to points I didn’t fathom before. This taught me to feel empathy for people who can’t say the same good things as me which gave me very good insight on to be grateful for the life I have.
In “You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help.” By Marc Parry the premise is simple. We are so distracted by our technology, that we don’t notice what it does to our attention span. Practicing mindfulness will help bring our attention back to where it needs to be and make us better students in the
Road rage can be displayed using your vehicle by tailgating, cutting other drivers off, speeding, or by using hand gestures or using profanities. I possess road rage frequently. I usually speed past other drivers going well past the speed limit. If I am stopped at an intersection and the driver behind blows on their horn or tailgates me when the traffic light has just changed from red to green, I will spin my tires until a large cloud of white smoke engulfs their vehicle and causes them to lose visibility and they are forced to wait longer to go through the intersection. Distracted driving is a more common issue with all of the technology and gadgets that are available to us these days. Driving distracted can be classified as eating, texting, checking emails, reading, singing, changing radio stations, taking a selfie, snap chatting, changing a child's diaper, spanking a child, or applying makeup while driving. I tend to refrain from distracted driving. However, one of my friends was speeding on Highway 90 just outside of Rayne and he was adjusting his bass knob on his subwoofer while not paying attention to the
If a person had road rage of extreme anger and behavior towards other drivers, one of the approaches that could explain why the person is like this is Behaviorism. Behaviorism is the use of rewards and punishments. John Watson created this in the direct opposition to Freud, it explains that the environment determines the behavior. Say, there are tons of cars honking or they are nervous, yelling at another driver could ease the nervousness they feel by the car moving in response to the yelling. Another way this could explain the road rage is Psychoanalytic. The Psychoanalytic Approach was started by Sigmund Freud. It explains that the unconscious mind wants pleasure. So, by yelling at the car/person in front of them they could get them to move which gives pleasure. A third reason
The last cause of the road rage is a life event. the road range could happen when the driver later for his job and wants to get the kids to the school in the morning .He tries to drive fast to drop them and could be angry if he saw the road stuck.Sometimes,he gets home in time for an important phone call. He doesn't care who could be put in harm's way as long as he gets there.Another case sometimes people are in a hurry for money. When an aggressive driver is in a rush to pick up a paycheck, or pay their bills on
Nerenberg believes that road rage is a “mental disorder and social disease,” which involves evolution. He states that throughout history mankind has had a competitive spirit and tries to dominate others. Nerenberg defines road rage as “ basically a maladaptive reaction to an identifiable psycho-social stressor that interferes with social functioning,” or, more simply put, “one driver expressing anger at another driver ... at least twice a year.” John Larson, a psychiatrist at Yale University, believes road rage is a “vigilante behavior” and that different levels of road rage exist. Furthermore, Larson believes that road rage is caused by association with sports, saying that a road rager is an individual who is “strongly imbued with the sports model, either from high school, college or professional sports; and from identification with sports heroes who become introjected models for behavior.” Make and model of a car is also a determining factor in road rage, according to Larson.
Road rage scholars consider other groups are evenly symbolized in the less fierce forms of hostile driving. Part of the hindrance is that jobs have moved from the metropolitan to the suburbs. Not shockingly, less people are trusting area transit and more on personally owned vehicles. Demographic alterations have aided in putting more drivers on the highways. There are merely more automobiles and more actions to deal with. The United States has given way over the limit of domestic crummy drivers. The highways are getting more jammed just as Americans seems constantly pushed for time.
Due to the composition of the sample, there are some limitations related to the generalizability of the study. Most of the participants were first-year undergraduate students (66%), women (80%), and whites (73%). Therefore, the results may not fully apply to men, nonwhites or non-traditional students. At the same time, the results may not be representative in individuals from non-Catholic religious beliefs. Despite the limitations, this study demonstrates the long-term positive effects of mindfulness
Many people think that mindfulness meditation consists solely of sitting still and thinking about nothing for twenty or thirty minutes and are put off by the thought. In fact, mindfulness
One time when me and my cousin got into a fight over something stupid. I was really mad at him and he was mad at me. I remember at one point in the fight he said he wished I moved to Texas and was never their. The reason he said that was because I was supposed to move to Texas but I didn't. Anyway I took that to heart and I was quiet and I felt very guilty. After that for the next
Mindfulness is the energy to be presently aware of your surroundings, yourself, and others in every moment of your daily life. To be mindful is more than just knowing that you’re hearing something, seeing something, or feeling something. In other words, it’s more than just knowing “what’s going on.” To be mindful is to be insightful. For example, when an individual realizes that they are angry they only allow themselves to feel anger and fail to realize that sadness, fear, and pain are all tied in with being angry. When one finally acknowledges that many emotions can tie in with one emotion, then they are insightful. They become mindful.
In this paper, I will describe my initial thoughts about the practice of mindfulness and my development regarding practicing it. Furthermore, I will explore the idea of being a mindful therapist and how I am hoping to apply this with patients in the future.