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Humans are programmed to think about issues outside their immediate vicinity, for example past events and speculation of the future. In fact, mind wandering appears to be the human brain's default mode of operation (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). The opposite of mind wandering is meditation...

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Autores: Hanson, Petra|||0000-0002-6845-1049, Shankar, Rohit|||0000-0002-1183-6933, Dale, Jeremy|||0000-0001-9256-3553, Luciano, Juan Vicente|||0000-0003-0750-1599
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:299043
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/299043
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1423847
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mindfulness
Burnout - professional
Wellbeing & happiness
Meditation
Pain
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Sumario:Humans are programmed to think about issues outside their immediate vicinity, for example past events and speculation of the future. In fact, mind wandering appears to be the human brain's default mode of operation (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). The opposite of mind wandering is meditation and mindfulness. For thousands of years, philosophical and religious traditions have studied the implications of meditation for individuals and society (Sun, 2014) concluding that happiness is found by living "in the moment". Practitioners are trained to resist mind wandering and to be grounded in the "here and now". Mindfulness is considered to be a decontextualized and "modern" form of meditation. As defined by Kabat-Zinn (1994) it is "paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally."