Masters of Mindfulness (Great Courses)
10 terms across 3 themes — every definition in the Atlas sourced from this manual, with executive examples and counter-moves.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Dacher Keltner's research: the emotion of encountering vastness reliably reduces self-focus and inflammation, and increases prosociality.
Wallace J. Nichols: proximity to water reliably shifts the nervous system toward a calmer, more creative state.
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
Daniel Siegel's term for the capacity to perceive your own and others' minds — integrating insight and empathy.
Rick Hanson: 'Velcro for negative, Teflon for positive.' The brain encodes threats faster and stickier than rewards.
Treating yourself with the same kindness, common humanity, and mindful awareness you'd extend to a friend.
Elissa Epel and Elizabeth Blackburn: chronic stress shortens telomeres; mindfulness practices slow that erosion.
Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed — a micro-intervention to insert a gap between stimulus and response.
Buddhist-derived principle: applying the right amount of effort, neither forcing nor slacking — taught by Shauna Shapiro and Rick Hanson.