Mindfulness can sharpen your mental focus

Given the listed benefits of mindfulness, which of the following is most likely to be true?

Practising mindfulness may help to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression

Practising mindfulness may boost interpersonal skills such as leadership and the ability to work effectively in a team

All three of the other answers are likely to be true

Practising mindfulness may have physical effects on the body such as being able to beat cancer

Mindfulness is best conceptualised as -

Being aware of the thoughts, feelings and experiences that happen to us on a moment-by-moment basis

The skill of forcing your attention and concentration on to a specific topic or task

At least two of the other answers are correct

An ability to suppress unwanted feelings, emotions and experiences

Mindfulness -

Can only happen when you sit still in order to concentrate on your moment-to-moment experience

Requires that you focus intently on your breathing and nothing else

Requires that you have your eyes closed

Can happen whenever you consciously pay attention to your physical and mental experience

Mind wandering is -

One mental state that is not mindful

Only harmful if it involves ruminating or dwelling on problems or worries

Unlikely to have any mental benefits

The opposite of mindfulness

It can be concluded from the article is that -

Mindfulness is a skill that can be honed through practice

Mindfulness is a trait in that some people may for whatever reason be more or less mindful than others

All of the other answers are correct

Mindfulness is a state in that people can sometimes be mindful and at other times distracted

Eight minutes of mindfulness practice -

Was demonstrated in one study to be sufficient for measurable psychological benefits

Is likely to be required perhaps several times a day in order to accrue the more meaningful benefits of mindfulness

Is required on a daily basis in order to accumulate the many benefits of mindfulness

Is required at least several times a week in order to accrue the multiple benefits of mindfulness

The dose-response relationship mentioned in the article suggests that -

Too much mindfulness practice may actually have negative effects on novices with little experience of mindfulness

More mindfulness practice is likely to result in a greater number or more meaningful benefits

Too much mindfulness practice may actually produce diminishing returns

At least ten weeks of mindfulness training is necessary in order to deliver the most significant benefits of mindfulness practice

The study conducted at Harvard Medical School suggests that -

Using MRI technology is the only meaningful way to demonstrate that mindfulness is beneficial for humans

People can improve their learning efficiency after only eight weeks of mindfulness training

Changes in the brain have been detected as a result of mindfulness training

People who are naturally more mindful tend to have brains that are observably different from people who are naturally less mindful

To develop mindfulness, you must -

Listen to guided audio tracks or watch videos on the subject

Be able to combine the mental training of mindfulness with physical exercise

Be able to invest time in paying conscious attention to your internal mental and external physical experiences

Have a background in spiritual or religious practices

Mindfulness can be developed -

Through intensive programmes of mindfulness training involving many hours of mindfulness practice per day

Through any or all of these three methods

By spending around ten to twenty minutes a day on exercises such as mindful breathing

Whenever a person is able to focus intently on his or her mental and physical experiences for a few minutes or even less

Mindfulness can sharpen your mental focus

Given the listed benefits of mindfulness, which of the following is most likely to be true?

Mindfulness is best conceptualised as -

Mindfulness -

Mind wandering is -

It can be concluded from the article is that -

Eight minutes of mindfulness practice -

The dose-response relationship mentioned in the article suggests that -

The study conducted at Harvard Medical School suggests that -

To develop mindfulness, you must -

Mindfulness can be developed -

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