The Mindful Self: A Mindfulness-Enlightened Self-view

This paper analyzes studies of mindfulness and the self, with the aim of deepening our understanding of the potential benefits of mindfulness and meditation for mental health and well-being. Our review of empirical research reveals that positive changes in attitudes toward the self and others as a r...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in psychology Jg. 8; S. 1752
Hauptverfasser: Xiao, Qianguo, Yue, Caizhen, He, Weijie, Yu, Jia-yuan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 13.10.2017
Schlagworte:
Buddhist psychology
mindfulness
Psychology
self
self-attitude
self-development
self-view
self
self-development
self-view
Buddhist psychology
mindfulness
self-attitude
ISSN:1664-1078, 1664-1078
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Zusammenfassung:This paper analyzes studies of mindfulness and the self, with the aim of deepening our understanding of the potential benefits of mindfulness and meditation for mental health and well-being. Our review of empirical research reveals that positive changes in attitudes toward the self and others as a result of mindfulness-enabled practices can play an important role in modulating many mental and physical health problems. Accordingly, we introduce a new concept-the "mindful self"-and compare it with related psychological constructs to describe the positive changes in self-attitude associated with mindfulness meditation practices or interventions. The mindful self is conceptualized as a mindfulness-enlightened self-view and attitude developed by internalizing and integrating the essence of Buddhist psychology into one's self-system. We further posit that the mindful self will be an important intermediary between mindfulness intervention and mental health problems, and an important moderator in promoting well-being. More generally, we suggest that the mindful self may also be an applicable concept with which to describe and predict the higher level of self-development of those who grow up in the culture of Buddhism or regularly engage in meditation over a long period of time.
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Edited by: Katja Corcoran, University of Graz, Austria
This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewed by: Dominik Mischkowski, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States; Tomasz Jankowski, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01752