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The Humanistic Psychologist

Volume 37, Issue 2, 2009

Special Issue: Mindfulness in Psychology

Mindful Awareness, Mindsight, and Neural Integration

Mindful Awareness, Mindsight, and Neural Integration

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DOI:
10.1080/08873260902892220
Daniel J. Siegela*

pages 137-158

Available online: 06 Jun 2009
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Abstract

Mindful awareness has been demonstrated to alter brain function, mental activity, and interpersonal relationships toward well-being. This article hypothesizes that mindful awareness promotes these positive changes through a proposed “internal attunement” that catalyzes the fundamental process of integration. Integration—the linkage of differentiated elements of a system—leads to the flexible, adaptive, and coherent flow of energy and information in the brain, the mind, and relationships. This coherent flow enables the individual to attain an intentionally established state of mindfulness with practice in the moment and creates the experiential substrate for developing mindful traits in daily life. By freeing the individual from the top–down associations of memory, mindfulness also promotes an emergent sense of a vital and resilient self.

 

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  • Available online: 06 Jun 2009

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Author affiliations

  • a Director, Mindsight Institute, Los Angeles, California

Author notes

  • Daniel J. Siegel -

    Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and his training in pediatrics, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and NIMH attachment research fellowship at UCLA. He is the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel is the author of Mindsight (Bantam, 2009), The Mindful Brain (Norton, 2007), and The Developing Mind (Guilford, 1999), and he is coauthor of Parenting from the Inside Out (Penguin, 2003). Dr. Siegel is currently the executive director of the Mindsight Institute (www.MindsightInstitute.com). He is on the clinical faculty at UCLA, where he serves as the codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (marc.ucla.edu) and coinvestigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (cbd.ucla.edu).

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