Barker - Mindfulness Meditation

Question 1

Mindfulness Definition (Barker)

Answer 1

paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally (phsyical, mental and spiritual well-being)

Question 2

Who introduced mindfulness (Barker)

Answer 2

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Question 3

Alternative healing Assumptions (Barker)

Answer 3

the interpretation of the mind, body, and spirit; the possibility of high-level wellness; the body as a vital system characterized by a natural flow of energy; and a participatory healing process

Question 4

Medicalization in healing (Barker)

Answer 4

a force that destroys our capacity to deal with the inevitability of pain, disability and death, by turning these states into technical problems

Question 5

Cause of disease (Mind over matter) (Barker)

Answer 5

• Having positive attitudes positively affects one’s health, while pessimism has “particularly toxic” consequences
• Our stress responses can become maladaptive in the case of chronic stressors that characterize everyday life

Question 6

The participatory healing process (Barker)

Answer 6

Individuals play an active and ongoing role in their own healing (by changing their behaviour, consciousness, and/or lifestyle)

Question 7

Healing (Barker)

Answer 7

• Healing is accepting things as they are rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be
• One must contribute to their own healing despite illness or disease

Question 8

Is Mindfulness tied to medicalization? (Barker)

Answer 8

Yes. Mindfulness is tied to medicalization because it expands on the terrain of human experiences and problems that are defined and treated as an illness or disorder