The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

By B. A. Wallace, D. Goleman. 2006

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Mental balance and well-being: building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology. (2006, background): “The Buddhist assumption behind the pursuit of wellbeing is that one’s habitual state is afflicted because of mental imbalances but that one’s deeper nature underlying those mental imbalances is healthy and flourishing (Ruegg, 1989; Waldron, 2003; Wallace, 2006b, Wallace & Hodel, 2006).”
Contemplative Education: A Systematic, Evidence-Based Review of the effect of Meditation Interventions in Schools (2015, background): “…that unfolds (Kabat-Zinn, 1990); attentional faculty comprising of continuous attention to an object without forgetfulness or distraction (Wallace 2006) An 8-week group programme utilising various forms of mindfulness meditation including breath awareness, body scan exercises, walking…”
Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training. (2010, background): “People who have undergone extensive meditation training have shown improvements on cognitive performance (Cahn & Polich, 2006) and mood (Davidson et al., 2003).”
Mindfulness Revisited (2015, background): “The personal serenity and contentment derived from immersion in bare attention to momentary experience may be therapeutic, but it is not liberating or equivalent to wisdom from the Buddhist perspective (Wallace, 2006, 2007b).”
Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation on Emotional Intelligence, General Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Stress: Evidence from Thailand (2014, background): “MM also requires practitioners to cultivate a moment-to-moment awareness of the self and the environment (Wallace, 2006), acknowledge any stimuli nonjudgmentally (Kabat-Zinn, 1994), and maintain equanimity in the face of any pleasant or unpleasant sensation they are encountering during the practice ”
Brain Mechanisms Supporting Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation (2011, unknown): “The form of mindfulness meditation (focused attention/ Shamatha) used relies on sustained attention to an explicit awareness of sensations associated with respiration with an emphasis of acknowledging discursive sensory events without affective reaction.”
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states (2012, unknown): “, the breath), bringing attention back to the object whenever the mind wanders (Gunaratana, 2002; Wallace, 2006).”
Buddhist Styles of Mindfulness: A Heuristic Approach (2015, background): “Methodologically, this way of using Buddhist sources stands in contrast to some recent work (for example, Rapgay & Bystrisky, 2009 ; Wallace, 2006 ) that adopts what can be called a “rhetoric of authenticity” whereby contemporary approaches are compared to “original,” “authentic,” or…”
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (2010, background): “Wallace (2006, 2007); Wallace and Hodel (2008) argues strongly for a contextually embedded understanding of Buddhist meditation, and this approach will be followed here.”
Social Foundations of the Capacity for Mindfulness: An Attachment Perspective (2007, background): “One of the common goals of meditation is to achieve and maintain a state of deep relaxation and a natural, gentle pattern of breathing combined with alert attention (not drowsiness or mental laxity; Wallace, 2006b).”