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Kine 4710 lecture 7
| 5 senses can be understood from the standpoint of defensiveness | 1. vision & hearing = most useful; 2. smell = secondarily useful; 3. taste = useful in preventing toxic intake The least useful is touch |
| how much do we wander? | 50% of personal mental experience is dominated by mind wandering |
| why is mind wandering bad? | MW predicts daily unhappiness. Negative moods increase when mind wandering increases (in experimental studies) |
| why do we mind wander? | We wander when distressed - amidst ‘regrets’ & ‘ruminations’ (past) & ‘worries’ (future). By not focusing on & resolving distress (and instead Mind Wandering), distress is perpetuated & intensified |
| mindfullness | paying attension to moments, intentionally, without judgements |
| attensional control is... | survival oriented and adaptive |
| telomere length and mind wandering? | need functional attension to lower mind wandering leading to longer telomeres |
| Buddhist principles | - a ‘present orientation’ through meditation - believed to result in a long life of 100 years |
| Taoist principles | - meditation increases longevity & increases ‘life force’ |
| Why have Asian cultures dominated meditation development in the 20th - 21st centuries | European east-west extended land mass - led to earlier farming & cultural-technological developments, Amongst technologies, European nations embraced explosive weapons consistently whereas Asian nations were more constrained, European nations were more mo |
| Discussion 1 | Greater self-reported mind-wanderings is related to shorter TL & to accelerated cell aging across the immune cell types measured These findings were robust after adjusting for confounds. Finding represents a link between the self perceived ‘wandering |
| discussion 2 | Cognitive &/or meditative interventions that target executive function (e.g. attention & working memory) can result in less MW & support healthy human aging. Effect size appears meaningful. S’s with the highest MW levels had telomeres shorter by ~ 200 b |
| Discussion 3 | The healthy sample was high on education & low on stress ( < ‘normal’ ) Because ‘low’ on stress, this sample was not appropriate for testing relationships between stress & TL. Therefore it’s not surprising that stress was weakly related to TL. But |
| Discussion 4 | Trait-like MW & cell aging result from development, learning & history ,LTL is a marker that reflects life-stress experiences, e.g. prenatal stress, abuse & childhood neglect, adult trauma & chronic stress, But LTL is protected by positive exposures like |
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