Episode #1723
Amishi Jha
Books mentioned
Peak Mind
Mentioned by Amishi Jha · at 00:00:00
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Meditation for Beginners
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Amishi Jha is a psychology professor and director of contemplative neuroscience at the University of Miami. She discusses how attention, stress, boredom, and mind-wandering affect cognitive performance, and explains mindfulness research involving military personnel, students, athletes, and others, including a four-week program with 12 minutes of daily practice.
What they talked about
- Difficulty of focusing and distractibility
- Mindfulness vs. breath manipulation techniques
- Attention system and its vulnerability to stress
- Training soldiers with mindfulness for performance
- Open monitoring practice and creative thinking
- Minimum effective dose of mindfulness (12 minutes)
- Loving kindness practice for self-compassion
- Comparison of mental and physical fitness
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