Dr. Elliot Cohen from Leeds Beckett University discusses mindfulness meditation. He explains that mindfulness meditation involves training the mind through practices like breath focus to cultivate mental states of clarity, focus, and stillness, while also enhancing creativity and adaptability. It can help address the modern stress epidemic by providing control, meaning, and purpose that may be lacking. Recommended readings on the topics of mindfulness, meditation, and their applications to stress and well-being are provided.

1. 'Mindfulness - Training in
Tranquility and Cultivating
Creativity'
Dr Elliot Cohen – Leeds Beckett Univetsity

2. The Mindfulness Revolution?

3. Popular Images for Mindfulness

4. Mindfulness Meditation
 Meditation involves training and taming the mind –
learning to cultivate positive mental states that
lead to experiences of clarity, focus and stillness,
whilst also enhancing one’s creativity and capacity
to adapt to different life situations. (Cohen 2015)

5. What do you see?

6. Posture –Breath – Mind
 Hold and release practice (Cohen 2015)

7. The Stress Epidemic?
 Disease  Dis-Ease
 Information overload (a problematic term)
 Loss of control, meaning, purpose?
 ‘Human Nature’ and ‘Nature’

8. Where are we? Who are we?

9. PhD on Daoism, Meditation and
Wilderness Therapy (Myers 2015)

10. Recommended Reading
 Goleman, D. (2003) Destructive Emotions: A Scientific
Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. London: Bantam Press.
 Hanh, T. N. (1991) The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual
on Meditation London: Rider.
 Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990) Full Catastrophe Living: Using the
Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and
Illness. London: Piatkus Publishing.
 Williams, M., Teasdale, J., Segal, Z., Kabat-Zin, J. (2007)
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself
from Chronic Unhappiness. London: Guilford Press.
 Recommended Link:
 Oxford Mindfulness Centre http://oxfordmindfulness.org/