Spiritual health: dealing with spiritual health, its like a positive input on how you want to control your life.…
meditating. It is perfect for those who have never meditated before, but there is still a lot of…
The definition of mindfulness that is going to be used for this paper is that “mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we practice mindfulness, our thoughts tune into what we’re sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future. (Greater Good Foundation, 2013) “Although mindfulness originated as a Buddhist meditation practice (Kabat Zinn, 2003 p 145), its secular adaptations have recently received a great deal of interest in Western empirical phycology…
Growing up, my mother always preached to me the importance of mindfulness. This happens to be a big theme in the Dhammapada, as it states that to achieving nirvana and following the path…
Mindfulness is a state of conscious awareness following from living in the moment (Brown & Ryan, 2003: Kabat-Zinn, 1994), drawing more attention in recent years from researchers as well as practitioners. Reasons behind can be attributed to the beneficial effects mindfulness has on emotion regulation as well as interpersonal and cognitive abilities.…
Meditation is a practice that is found in some form across religions and continents, it is a concept that has been around for ages. Meditation has many positive effects on its participants ranging from the emotion level through increased positive emotions, better emotional regulation, and better socioemotional adaptability, cognitive level by modifying our perception of pain and stress, and on the physiological level by altering our heart rate, altering our brain functioning, and actually altering some of our brain structure to better deal with pain. Meditation is not mysticism but rather science that is starting to be uncovered.…
Mindfulness Exercises: (important to present multiple options to patients and let them know to choose what works best for them)…
In the last few decades there has been an incredible influx of interest concerning mindfulness, and it’s augmentation regarding mental health & well being, physical health, behavioural regulation, and interpersonal relationships (Brown et al, 2007).…
Langer, E. J., & Moldoveanu, M. (2000). The construct of mindfulness []. Journal of Social Issues, 56(1), 1-9. Retrieved from…
There are two types of motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic. An individual is extrinsically motivated when they are motived by the environment or consequences. Such motivation can come in the form of money, food, attention, privileges, etc. Intrinsically motivated individuals are motivated by their own interests and capacities (Reeve, 2009). One would say that they do an activity because it interests them. Intrinsic motivation comes from certain psychology needs that every person has within them. This paper will discuss the three types of psychological needs which are autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Those needs will then be tied into intrinsic motivation and how that affects the life of a Christian.…
Motivation may be defined as psychological forces that determine the direction of a person’s behavior in an organization. Motivation is central to management because it explains why people behave the way they do. A persons’ behavior tells how motivated they are to do their job at a higher performance level. There is intrinsically and extrinsic sources for motivation (Gareth, 2009) There are also two motivational theories which explains how an employee can be motivated.…
Motivation is a psychological feature that arouses an organism to act towards a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal directed behaviors. It can be considered a driving force; a psychological drive that compels or reinforces an action toward a desired goal. For example, hunger is a motivation that elicits a desire to eat. Motivation has been shown to have roots in physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and social areas.…
In choosing scenario that one deals with Caitlin and her blatant lack of motivation. Recognizing un-motivated students is something most educators can do on a daily basis, however, knowing how to resolve the issue is another story altogether. The student’s goals are what sets their drive for achievements and is how they self-motivate themselves. Motivational theories are how these students can reach their goals and break out of the ”I don’t care” downward spiral. When students have no motivation they tend to reach out with statements such as I do not care, or it is too hard to get an A in this class. The avoidance of academic challenges leads to different types of behavioral issues that can arise at school. It can even lead to a student needing disciplinary actions taken against them. However, if the educator can use logical consequences, punishment that fits the action, minor infractions can be solved easily. Caitlin is a new student, and she is a very difficult situation that will set up her ritual at this school. Caitlin is failing to apply herself and in turn she is not doing her best work because she lacks the desire to do so. She only hits a few points on Maslow’s hierarchy charts of needs. Caitlin has no feeling of belonging, has low esteem, and lacks self-actualization; she seems to be searching for who she is in this new place. She is distracted, interrupting her class, and not participating proving that she is simply un-motivated. Caitlin has physiological and safety; however she lacks in the other points of the hierarchy needs. She has lost her life as she knew it and is in a new environment in a divorced family. This is causing her distraction in class and her lack of motivation; she has nothing to motivate her in achieving her goals. Caitlin does not feel there is a reason to try and earn anything higher than a C. Therefore she has no intrinsic motivation. Caitlin is also lacking the extrinsic motivation due her situation in life and a…
Work motivation "is a set of energetic forces that originate both within as well as beyond an individual's being, to initiate work-related behavior, and to determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration"…
Motivation in an organizational context is the processes that account for an individual’s intensity (how hard the person tries), direction (the orientation that benefits the organization), and persistence of effort (how long a person can maintain his/her effort) toward attaining a goal.…