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Attention as a powerful brain system is vulnerable.
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And when we look at individuals over high stress intervals, Think of a student over the academic semester, or a lawyer preparing for a trial, or even in the trial,
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an athlete during competition season.
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These are demanding intervals, and many of us have these intervals over and over again in our lives, whether we know they're coming or not.
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When we are under high stress, high demand intervals, our attention will suffer.
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We've seen this over and over again.
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And oftentimes we think of this notion of resilience bouncing back.
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maintaining or regaining a capacity that may get degraded, like attention will over high stress.
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One of the things I've been very interested in doing is really considering a notion almost preceding resilience, something I call pre -sillience.
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In this sense, what we're doing is training our mind daily, no matter the level of demand in our lives.
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Just like engaging in physical activity, not just to train for a big event like a marathon, but to stay physically, Healthy daily.
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Why do we do this?
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because we know when we need our bodies to be strong and fit, Think of just being in an airplane and putting your bag above your seat, or carrying in a heavy bag of groceries.
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It would not be wise to, in that moment, decide to drop to the ground and do some push -ups.
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You need to embody the strength so that you can use it to live your life.
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The mind is no different than the body.
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that the mind, needs to be exercised daily.
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To optimize, our psychological well -being, and our ability to function and perform at our best.
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But, The question has been how to train the mind to do this.
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And thankfully, Decades of research in my own lab and many others has now given us a solution.
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Mindfulness training.
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Something that's been around for millennia.
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The opposite of a wandering mind is a mindful one.
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And I think of mindfulness really about keeping that button on play, if you will.
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If you think of the mind as an MP3 player, we're not in fast forward or rewind.
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We're in play.
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What does that mean?
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We're experiencing the moment to moment unfolding of our lives.
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We're there in the present moment.
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And one other feature is very important regarding mindfulness.
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It's about being in play, attending to the present moment, without editorializing about what's going on.
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So we're not reacting to it or what we might call mentally elaborating, creating stories about what's going on.
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It's really more like getting the raw data of what's occurring in our lives.
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And because there's such a strong pull to fast forward and rewind, we need training to be able to keep ourselves in play.
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So given the power of attention and its vulnerabilities,
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and arriving at a solution for how we might train it A very important question to me became, What's the minimum effective dose?
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We want to offer mindfulness training to people that are in very high demand and often time pressured.
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Frankly, that's all of us.
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So what is the shortest amount of time? that people can engage in mindfulness practice daily and see beneficial effects.
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To answer this question, we embarked on a very long series of studies in my lab.
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In fact, the whole thing probably took about a decade.
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Because these are human beings, and it's not a drug study per se, but it's a study in which we're asking people to do something every day, we wanted to see what the dose was,
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meaning how much time they spent engaging in mindfulness practice, that resulted in beneficial effects.
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So we used what's called a data emergent approach.
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We just put all the data from all the participants with them reporting how much they practiced, and then we looked to see how much they practiced.
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What was the minimum number that people practiced where we saw benefits in our objective measures of attention? and mood.
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It ended up that those who practice 12 minutes or more a day benefited their attention was stronger. and protected.
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But those who practice less did not benefit.
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In fact, they look no different than participants who did not even receive training.
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This told us we were on to something, something big, that there is a minimum effective dose.
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So we went on to more studies in which we didn't bother assigning them 45 minutes or 30 minutes.
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We assigned them 12 to 15 minutes.
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We found that people were much more willing to do this amount of time of practice
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and that consistently they showed beneficial effects.
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So 12 is in some sense your daily dozen mindfulness practice number, and I encourage you to shoot for that number.
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But here's the other thing I want you to keep in mind.
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Just like physical exercise, The more we do, the more we benefit.
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So if you can do more than 12 minutes, certainly aim to do so you will benefit.
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And if you need to reach a minimum threshold in your busy lives, shoot for your daily dozen of mindfulness practice.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “The daily routine that fixes your ability to focus”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: mindfulness, practice, daily, attention, training. Deze video bevat 60 zinnen en 877 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:28. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 160 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| interval zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪntɚvəl/ | interval |
| distress zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | druk, stress |
| beneficial bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/ | gunstig |
| rewind werkwoord | /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/ | weer oprollen |
| resilience zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/ | veerkracht, herstellingsvermogen |
| assign werkwoord | /əˈsaɪn/ | toewijzen |
| participant zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/ | deelnemer, participant |
| degrade werkwoord | /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/ | degraderen, aftakelen |
| embark werkwoord | /ɪmˈbɑɹk/ | beginnen, starten |
| embody werkwoord | /ɪmˈbɒdi/ | belichamen |
| optimize werkwoord | /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/ | optimistisch zijn/handelen |
| precede werkwoord | /pɹɪˈsid/ | voorafgaan, laten voorbijgaan |
| unfold werkwoord | /ʌnˈfoʊld/ | openvouwen, uitspreiden |
| wander werkwoord | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | zwerven, rondtrekken |
| groceries zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | boodschappen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- We've seen this over and over again.
- Why do we do this?
- We're there in the present moment.
- Frankly, that's all of us.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | We've seen · I've been · has been |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | those who practice |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we're, didn't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, editorialize /ˌed.əˈtɔːr.i.ə.laɪz/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: rewind /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/, degrade /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/, editorialize /ˌed.əˈtɔːr.i.ə.laɪz/, oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/, optimize /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: frankly /fɹæŋkli/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: degrade /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/, groceries /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, regain /ɹiːˈɡeɪn/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als interval, distress, beneficial.
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