The independent mindfulness information website - Neuroscience of mindfulness. Neuroscience is a vast subject, so we have tried to present the basic information you may need in order to understand the neuroscience behind mindfulness. Much of the content of this page has been extracted or adapted from Dr Shanida Nataraja's book "The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and proof of the power of meditation", which is available in the Mindfulnet Amazon shop located on the resources page. All extracts and illustrations have been reproduced with the permission of the publisher & author. A brief introduction to the brain. The human brain is a reddish grey mass, with the consistency of firm jelly, which weighs on average the same as three bags of sugar and houses 100 billion individual brain cells called neurones. The human brain is organised in a hierarchical manner: the oldest parts controlling the more primitive, instinctual behavioural reflexes; the newest parts controlling the more sophisticated cognitive, sensory and motor functions.
Right Brain and Left Brain. Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation. Jeremy Hunter: Why Mindfulness Matters | The Flame. Drucker School Assistant Professor of Practice Jeremy Hunter says mindfulness “creates freedom and possibility to choose new and more positive ways of acting in the world. From what I can see, the world needs it.” (Photo by William Vasta) Business Managers Can Manage Themselves by Tapping Buddhist Concepts In the fifth or sixth century BCE, Buddhist texts extolled the power of being “awake, aware, mindful,” declaring, “a tamed mind brings happiness.” In his 1968 book, The Age of Discontinuity, theorist and educator Peter F. Drucker, considered the father of modern management, wrote about the virtues of “trained perception” and “disciplined emotion.”
Respective of its ancient and modern contexts, mindfulness—the concept of deliberately directing one’s attention—is what Jeremy Hunter has been teaching for more than a decade as assistant professor of practice at CGU’s Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. Other, later thinkers trod similar ground.
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