Mindful Breathing

By Donald D. Matthews PsyD

Mindful Breathing is a metacognitive strategy for increasing self-awareness, monitoring cognition, attention and emotions, cultivating wellness and reducing stress. It combines a deep breathing technique with mindfulness that increases our ability to monitor our cognition and regulate our attention and emotions. It also promotes a healthful mindset so we can cope with daily stressors more effectively. Mindful breathing can be taught to individuals or groups to increase metacognitive thinking and to develop resilience to respond to stressful situations. Mindfulness techniques like mindful breathing are currently receiving considerable attention from researchers in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Psychologists and mental health practitioners are finding therapeutic benefits to teaching self awareness practices such through mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) which share similarities with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). These types of therapies are "present centered" and "solution focused" approaches for improving the quality of thinking and enhance self-awareness. Mindfulness practices as therapeutic interventions for psychological conditions enhance metacognitive thinking ability (self knowledge and self regulation) and introduce healthful patterns of thinking to enhance mood and reduce anxiety.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1654771589
• ISBN13: 9781654771584
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"