Meditate to Create: The Impact of Focused-Attention and Open-Monitoring Training on Convergent and Divergent Thinking

Colzato, Lorenza S.; Öztürk, Ayça

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00116

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“…These mindfulness properties are thought to improve self-regulation and stress management by allowing individuals to refrain from trying to control the content of the mind 12,13 . Over the last decades, mindfulness-related treatments, such as mindfulnessbased stress reduction 14 and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy 15 , have been extensively researched and applied in different clinical and nonclinical populations with positive results.…”

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Lower trait frontal theta activity in mindfulness meditators

Tanaka

Peressutti

Teixeira

et al. 2014

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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Acute and long-term effects of mindfulness meditation on theta-band activity are not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate frontal theta differences between long- and short-term mindfulness practitioners before, during, and after mindfulness meditation. Twenty participants were recruited, of which 10 were experienced Buddhist meditators. Despite an acute increase in the theta activity during meditation in both the groups, the meditators showed lower trait frontal theta activity. Therefore, we suggested that this finding is a neural correlate of the expert practitioners’ ability to limit the processing of unnecessary information (e.g., discursive thought) and increase the awareness of the essential content of the present experience. In conclusion, acute changes in the theta band throughout meditation did not appear to be a specific correlate of mindfulness but were rather related to the concentration properties of the meditation. Notwithstanding, lower frontal theta activity appeared to be a trait of mindfulness practices.

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Lower trait frontal theta activity in mindfulness meditators

Tanaka

Peressutti

Teixeira

et al. 2014

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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“…As suggested elsewhere, FAM increases top-down control and thus strengthens top-down support for relevant information, while OMM weakens top-down control and thus reduces top-down support (Colzato et al 2012;Colzato et al 2015;Colzato et al 2016). Figure 1 captures the emerging idea that FAM tends to strengthen the impact of the task goal and/or the competition between alternatives (cf., Hommel 2015) by supporting serial processing, whereas OMM tends to weaken the impact of the task goal and/or the competition between alternatives (cf., Hommel 2015) by supporting serial processing.…”

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How Different Types of Meditation Can Enhance Athletic Performance Depending on the Specific Sport Skills

Colzato

Kibele

2017

J Cogn Enhanc

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Long-term engagement in mindfulness meditation has been found to be effective in achieving optimal athletic performance through decreasing the level of anxiety, ruminative thinking, and enhancing the experience of flow. Besides long-term training effects, the past years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of single bouts of meditation on cognition. In particular, focused attention meditation (FAM) and open monitoring meditation (OMM) instantly bias cognitive-control styles toward Bmore^(i.e., serial processing) versus Bless^(i.e., parallel processing) top-down control, respectively. In this opinion article, we argue that the distinction between FAM and OMM is particularly effective when considering different types of sports. We speculate that FAM may enhance performance in closed-skills sports (i.e., archery, gymnastic), based on serial processing, in which the environmental is predictable and the response is Bself-paced.^In contrast, we consider OMM to promote performance in openskills sports (i.e., soccer, sailboarding), based on parallel processing, in which the environmental contingencies determine an Bexternally-paced^response. We conclude that successful meditation-based intervention on athletic performance requires a theoretically guided selection of the best-suited techniques specific to certain types of sports.

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“…Mindfulness has been tested in schools on children, teachers and parents (Weijer-Bergsma, Formsma, Bruin, & Bögels, 2012), in the workplace on employees (Reb, Narayanan, & Ho, 2013) and on decision makers (Fiol & O'Connor, 2003). Mindfulness has a provably positive effect on creativity (Horan 2009, Ren et al, 2011, Colzato, Ozturk, & Hommel, 2012 which is a prerequisite of any innovative process (Amiable, 1997). Mindfulness has been found to be positively correlated with sustainable behavior (Jacob, Jovic, & Brinkerhoff, 2008, Amel, Manning, & Scott, 2009.…”

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Mindfulness and Sustainability: Utilizing the Tourism Context

Lengyel¹

2015

JSD

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After several decades of sustainability efforts humanity is still on track to worst-case climate scenario. Other planetary boundaries have also been transgressed. The symptoms point to a root cause termed by many as a crisis of perception and value system. Our consumption-oriented world view is unsustainable. What can catalyze a perceptual paradigm shift needed to avoid global socio-ecological collapse in the long-run? Besides its manifold beneficial effects tested clinically, mindfulness has been found to be positively correlated with sustainable behavior. The article gives a theoretical grounding of mindfulness highlighting some new aspects and argues that the tourism context serves as an exceptionally suitable medium for learning mindfulness techniques. Expanding on earlier openness to new experience and Google Trends research of the author it is demonstrated that tourists have a markedly raised level of openness to new experience and also that there is a strong demand side business case for developing more mindfulness-based tourism products both globally and specifically for Hungary. The study provides further evidence of the short fade-out period of positive vacation effects and shows what type of destinations and accommodations potential wellness and ecotourists consider best for learning mindfulness.

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Meditate to Create: The Impact of Focused-Attention and Open-Monitoring Training on Convergent and Divergent Thinking

Cited by 278 publications

References 24 publications

Lower trait frontal theta activity in mindfulness meditators

Lower trait frontal theta activity in mindfulness meditators

How Different Types of Meditation Can Enhance Athletic Performance Depending on the Specific Sport Skills

Mindfulness and Sustainability: Utilizing the Tourism Context

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