EF3080

• On successful completion of the course, the students should be able to;
• ➢ identify basics of mindfulness, advantageous and different stages of it
• ➢ describe medical, physiological backgrounds of mindfulness and recent developments
• ➢ relate the use of basic tools of mindfulness
• ➢ apply knowledge of mindfulness for solving problems

• ➢ Introduction to mindfulness: What is mindfulness, definitions, advantageous of being mindful; creative thinking ability, problem solving skills, clear and quick decision making, improved interpersonal-skills, stress and anger control, be happy etc. and different stages of mindfulness.
• ➢ Basic tools to develop mindfulness: Mind-body-friendship, mindful-sitting, mindful-walking, mindfulness in day-to-day activities.
• ➢ Medical and physiological background of mindfulness: How brain and nerve system function, mindfulness practice and consequent structural/functional changes in brain and nerve system, immune system etc.
• ➢ Recent developments in mindfulness practice: Recent developments in mindfulness practice, mindfulness as a preventive method to the society in general, prevention of alcohol usage, prevention of drug addiction and living with epidemic or any other illness.
• ➢ Lifelong development of mindfulness practice: Appreciation of mindfulness practice and how to develop it as a life style.

• Classroom lectures, practical and discussions

60%

40%

Tutorials - 20%

Theory (%)

40

Practical (%)

-

Other (%)

-

➢ Zinn, J. K. (2010). Where you go There you are. 10th anniversary edition, Hachette Books, New York, USA.

➢ Williams, M, Penman, D. (2011). Mindfulness: An Eight-week plan for finding peace in a frantic world. Rodale Inc., NY.

➢ Zinn, J. K. (2013). Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness. 2nd edition, Bantam Books, NY.

➢ Shapiro, S. L., &Carlson, L. E. (2017). The Art and Science of Mindfulness. 2nd edition, American Psychological Association, Washington DC.