Do you know why for many patients with physical and mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety, panic disorder, etc., they are recommended to learn "mindfulness"? The mindfulness and stress relief course originated in medical schools in the United States and has been closely related to medical care and medicine from the beginning. In addition to the large number of practical cases applied to patients, there is of course relevant theoretical foundations and rich scientific research evidence behind them.
Back to the most fundamental question: "Why can mindfulness heal diseases? ", first of all, we want to introduce a very important theory to you. This is from the theory proposed by American psychologist Gary Schwartz in the 1970s - self-regulation model (self-regulation model).
What is the self-regulation mode?
Why do you think people get sick? American psychologist Gary Schwartz believes that the reason why people have diseases is not born, but has a vein.
Disattention
is at the source because we are losing our heart. Our heart is gone, so you will be inattentive and will be unable to maintain harmony and stability between your body and mind.
Disconnection
When we lose our hearts, we are easily lost to ourselves. What will this lead to? We will begin to feel indifferent and numb to ourselves, and start to regard many things as nothing, and can even do all kinds of things that hurt ourselves or others' physical and mental health, because we no longer care about ourselves and have no feelings for it. This is a very serious phenomenon.
disregulation
Then, many things will be separated from self-control. Whether it is temper, sleep, or work performance, there will be problems. But we may not be able to realize it ourselves. It's like autonomic disorder, which is also here.
Disorder
If it continues to be out of order, it will be out of order. For example, overeating (eating disorder), insomnia (sleep disorder), inattention (attention disorder),..., etc. These obstacles have had a serious and significant impact on us, and if you still don’t start to deal with it well, you will enter the last stage: abnormality.
Disease
Disorder means losing the usual comfortable, comfortable and normal state, which is already a "disease". At this time, we must seek clinical medical assistance.
Don’t want diseases, how to maintain health?
From the perspective of healing, the above context can be reversed. Since the heart is gone, it will eventually lead to illness, then you must find the heart back. Retrieve attention and maintain a connection with your body and mind, from concentration to connection, connection to regulation, regulation brings order, order brings comfort normal, that is, health.
How does mindfulness participate in the self-regulation mode of body and mind?
Mindfulness is that it does not start to participate at the last level of abnormality, but starts to do it from the "lost mind" at the most source. Mindfulness can help us get our attention back and keep us connected with ourselves. When you have links, you will naturally enter a state of regulation, and your body and mind can adjust yourself, because this is originally a function of a human. When your inner self is harmonious and orderly, you can also be in a healthy, comfortable and comfortable state.
Mindfulness can heal diseases
brings clinical benefits
From Gary Schwartz's self-regulation model architecture, we can clearly see that mindfulness has great help to clinical diseases lies in the fact that it starts to solve problems from the most fundamental point.Because it has low cost and high efficiency characteristics, mindfulness has become a very good medical aid and has been widely used in various diseases, such as depression, anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, cancer, chronic pain, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), sleep disorders, addiction, etc.
The theory of this article is partly quoted from the book "Mindfulness Healing Power"
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