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Mindfulness Based Happiness development

Mindfulness Based Happiness development. Nathanael ROUX Created the 11th of April 2013 Updated the 29th of January 2018. Introduction. I study Dharma * since 2000 I guide meditation sessions since 2013

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Mindfulness Based Happiness development

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  1. MindfulnessBasedHappinessdevelopment Nathanael ROUX Created the 11th of April 2013 Updated the 29th of January 2018

  2. Introduction • I study Dharma* since 2000 • I guide meditation sessions since 2013 • I’m not a Mindfulness expert, there are plenty of greatteachers, much more qualifiedthanme, to provide guidance • But I have had the chance to discoverMindfulness, to practice it, to teachit and to see the benefits of it • It’swhatmotivated me to shareitwithyou * Dharma : Science of the Mind

  3. Happinessfundamentals • To be safe and healthy • To be satisfied and serene • To be calm, relaxed and peaceful • To be present and paying attention • To be unified and connected • To be inspired and to have a goal • To know how to enjoy and to be grateful • To take care of oneself and of others • To share, help, give, teach • To feel loved and appreciated, recognized • To be positive, to know how to step-out, how to let go and how to go ahead

  4. Mindfulness • Good news is that happiness could increase and that it could be easily learned • Mindfulness could help developping all the happiness fundamentals, in the same time • Mindfulness pratice enables happiness growth for ourselves, with benefits to others • Mindfulness enhance our Quality of Life • Mindfulness is a very simple and effective practice, with scientifically proven benefits

  5. WhatisMindfulnessFormalmindfulnessmeditation practiceAnd daily life usage • Method • Focus on breathing (as an anchor) • Here and now in the present moment • Non-judgmental Awareness of sensations, feelings and thoughts • Jon Kabat-Zinn definition of Mindfulness • « Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgementally »

  6. WhatisMindfulness • Benefits • Get access to peace and happiness in oneself • Independantly of outside conditions • Develop stillness and insight vision • Capacity to analyze situations and to wisely respond rather than automaticaly react – even in a frantic world • Develop capacity to observe oneself, to learn and change • Capacity to identify habits / conditioning and being able to transform them progressively • Develop capacity to pay attention • to yourself and others • Develop meta-attention • Capacity to be aware of when you have been distracted and to come back to the object of your attention • Unification of Body / Spirit • Heart openness • Empathy, compassion, lovingkindness, …

  7. Matthieu RICARD Mindfulnessbenefits • Scientifically proven benefits • Enable happiness growth for ourselves, with benefits to others • Be more positive, stress, anxiety and pain reduction, better resilience, more peaceful and happy • Measurable positive changes in the brain and body • Emotional Intelligence improvement : Intra/Inter-relationship skills and competences enhancement • Performance increase • Attention / Concentration / Focus / Memory • Innovation and creativity Richard DAVIDSON Daniel GOLEMAN Jon KABAT-ZINN

  8. Mindfulness • Scientifically proven benefits • Psoriasis : skin clearing twice faster (J.KABAT-ZINN) • Vaccination : 20 % stronger immune response (J.KABAT-ZINN ) • Depression : - 50 % relapse (M.WILLIAMS, Z.SEGAL, J.TEASDALE) • Modification of the left-right activity ratio of the brain : happiness, optimism, resilience (R.DAVIDSON) • Neural synchrony in gamma-band => attention enhancement (A.LUTZ et R.DAVIDSON) • Increased cortical thickness and brain grey matter density (S.LAZAR) Richard DAVIDSONMatthieu RICARD Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  9. Mindfulness • The second good news isthatyou do not need to live in a cave in the mountains, 10 to 30 minutes of pratice per dayisenough • MRIfmeasures show thatsignicantbrain structure modifications appearafter 8 weeks of 30 minutes daily practice • The more important isregularity and perseverance

  10. MBSR birth MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction • Dr. Jon KABAT-ZINN • Ph.D. in molecularbiologyfrom MIT • Professor of MedecineEmeritus and foundingdirector of the Stress ReductionClinic and the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachussetts • Founder of MBSR – MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction • Beganteaching MBSR at the SRC in 1979 to help patients copewith stress, pain and illness by usingmeditation and hatha-yoga • Book « Full catastrophe living » • http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/

  11. Mindfulness in the world • Dr. Richard DAVIDSON (Neuroscience) • First researcher to perform MRI experiments on meditators • Book « The emotional life of yourbrain » • http://richardjdavidson.com/ • http://www.investigatinghealthyminds.org/ • Daniel GOLEMAN (Psychologist) • Book «  Emotional Intelligence » • http://www.danielgoleman.info/ • Dr. Mark WILLIAMS (co-developer of MBCT - MindfulnessBased Cognitive Therapy – withZindel SEGAL & John TEASDALE) • Book « Mindfulness : Findingpeace in a franctic world» • http://franticworld.com/ • http://mbct.co.uk/ • Chade Meng Tan (Google) • Founder of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute – SIYLI • Book «  Search Inside Yourself » • http://chademeng.com/ • http://www.siyli.org/

  12. Mindfulness in the world • Michael CHASKALSON (UK Mindfulness leader) • Book « Mindfulworkplace » • http://mindfulness-works.com • http://mbsr.co.uk • Tim RYAN (USA congressman) • Book « Mindful nation » • How a simple practice can help us reduce stress, improve performance and recapture the american spirit • http://mindfulnation.org/ • Eline SNEL (Therapist, MBSR certified trainer) • Training schoolteachers to « meditation for kids » withstrong support of the Nederland Minister of Education • Book « Sitting stilllike a frog » • http://www.elinesnel.nl/ • Eckhart TOLLE • Book « The power of now » • http://www.eckharttolle.com/

  13. Mindfulness in the world • Mindfulness international congress at Hamburg University in 2011 • Creation by Doctor Jean-Gérard BLOCH in 2012, of the first Medical Degree in Mindfulness at University of Strasbourg « Diplôme d’Université de Médecine, Méditation et Neurosciences » • International Conference on Mindfulness at Sapienza University of Rome in May 2013 • Wisdom 2.0 Europe conference in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2014 • The Mindfulness Summit, in October 2015

  14. Mindfulness in the world • « The Science of Meditation Summit », in October 2016 • 5 days of conference with the greatest experts

  15. Mindfulness in the world • The UK Mindfulness initiative : The Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary group • http://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk • Mindfulness-APPG-Report – Mindful nation, in October 2015 • Building the case for Mindfulness in the workplace, in October 2016 • The Mindfulness initiative France • http://www.initiativemindfulnessfrance.com

  16. Mindfulness in the world • « A mindful Society », in April 2017 • http://amindfulsociety.org

  17. Mindfulness in the world • Conferencesplanned in 2018 • International Conference on Mindfulness • Amsterdam, July 2018 • Rencontres internationales Sciences Art Méditation • Strasbourg, France, June/July 2018

  18. Mindfulness in the world • Just search in Google for Mindfulness or MBSR and see the results • Have a look to the MindfulnessResearch Guide • http://goamra.org • Mindfulnessisfollowing an exponentialgrowthcurve and have entered the mainstream of society

  19. Mindfulness in the world • Mindfulnessisusedsince1979* to develop people happiness, health and well-being, to help to copewith stress, pain, illness, depression, death of loved one, end of life, … • Mindfulnessisused in numerousways: • Happiness, health and well-beingdevelopment • Children training to growbalanced and have a happy life • Coaching • Leadership development • Mindfulnessat work • MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction • MindfulnessBased Cognitive Therapy • MindfulnessBasedCompassionateLiving • Personaldevelopment * Mindfulnessmeditationispracticed for more than 2600 years => alsocalledVipassana

  20. Mindfulness at work • Minfulness training has been embraced by organisations as diverse as : • Google, Intel, General-Mills, McKinsey & Company, Deutsche Bank, Procter & Gamble, Astra Zeneca, Aetna, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Transport for London, Home Office, NHS, FaceBook, Twitter, eBay, KPMG, LinkedIn, BAE-Systems, Ford, Areva, Schlumberger, SAP-France, CHU de Bordeaux, L’Oréal, Chanel, EDF, Siemens, Orange, Sodexo, AXA, Société-Générale, Airbus, … • http://mindfulness-works.com/ • Mindfulness training sessions have already been done in Airbus Group in Toulouse • by Marie-Dominique CHAMARD : http://linstantdetre.com/ • by Martial VIDAUD : http://potentialproject.com/ • by Thomas GERARD : http://www.mindfulintelligence.com/ • And a specific training path have been developed by Google and availablethrough the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute • http://siyli.org

  21. Mindfulness in France • Christophe ANDRE • Psychiatrist Doctor in the Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris • Book « Méditer jour après jour » • http://christopheandre.com • Jean-Gérard BLOCH • Creator of the first Medical Degree in Mindfulness at University of Strasbourg « Diplôme d’Université de Médecine, Méditation et Neurosciences » • http://sfc.unistra.fr/diplome-d-universite-de-medecine-meditation-et-neurosciences-2160.html • Dominique STEILER • Chairholder « Chair Mindfullness, well-being at work and economic peace » • http://www.mindfulness-at-work.fr/

  22. Mindfulness in France • Fabrice MIDAL • Philosophe et writer, founder of « Ecole de méditation occidentale » • http://www.ecole-meditation-occidentale.fr/ • Yves LE-BIHAN • Director of the « Institut français du Leadership positif » • http://positiveleadership.fr/ • http://www.initiativemindfulnessfrance.com/

  23. Mindfulness in Aquitaine • Mindfulness training isalsoavailablelocally in Aquitaine, withcertifiedtrainers • Stephane FAURE • http://euthymia.fr/ • Corinne JOUSSAIN • http://www.lefildeletre.fr/ • Emmanuelle CHARENTON • http://www.mbsr-aquitaine.fr/ • Yvan WEMAERE • http://yvan-wemaere.blogspot.fr/ • Sonia PELISSON • http://www.so-mindfulness.com/ • Robin FIAULT • http://meditation-bordeaux.com/

  24. Mindfulness

  25. Mindfulness • Why not you ?

  26. Mindfulness Selective choice of books and CDs to learn meditation practice

  27. Mindfulness • Smartphone applications : • University of Massachusetts - Center for Mindfulness (UMass – CFM) • 10% Happier • Potential Project

  28. Mindfulness • Guided Mindfulness meditation by Jon KABAT-ZINN • Full catastrophe living by KABAT-ZINN • The Mindful workplace by Michael CHASKALSON • The miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh • Mindfulness in plain english by Bhante Hénépola Gunaratana • The art of meditation by Matthieu RICARD • The art of living, Vipassana meditation as taught by Satya Narayan Goenka by William HART • The joy of living by Yongey Mingyour Rinpoché • Lovingkindness by Sharon SALZBERG • The power of now by Eckhart TOLLE

  29. Mindfulness • The emotional life of your brain de Richard DAVIDSON • Emotional intelligence by Daniel GOLEMAN • Mindfulness, a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Mark WILLIAMS • Search Inside Yourself by Chade Meng Tan • Mindful nation by Tim RYAN • Sitting still like a frog by Eline SNEL • Breathe through this by Eline SNEL • Buddha’s brain by Rick HANSON

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