Why do you discuss a connection between low frequency neurofeedback and mindfulness meditation?
[ Top ] A: This is also discussed in more detail in the accompanying protocol guide. In his important book [ 6 ] “The Mindful Brain”, Daniel J Siegel, of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, defines mindfulness as awareness of the modifications of the mind accompanied by the attitudes of “curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love.” With low frequency work, and with skilled guidance and mirroring, we help our clients become aware of their own modifications of mind accompanied by the very same attitudes, although we might substitute the word appreciation for love. Siegel also states “Mindfulness meditation… is thought to be especially important for training attention and letting go of a strict identification with the activities of the mind as being the full identity of the individual.” It is how we pay attention to “the dance between the mind and brain.” It is “the self-regulation of attention …allowing for increased recognition of mental events in the present moment.” Even in
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