Mindful individuals orient to ongoing events and experiences in a receptive, attentive manner.
Loucks hypothesizes that more mindful individuals are less likely to let powerful cravings dictate their eating behaviors.
The results, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, show that more mindful individuals reported greater belief in their academic abilities after a failure.
As it turns out, mindful individuals were also more likely to engage in positive reappraisal, finding meaning and benefit in the adversities of daily life.
I had discovered how history was pieced together in the real world, one trowel scrape at a time, by mindful individuals in search of historical documentation.
According to the study, instead of allowing failures to define them, more mindful individuals are able to shrug off minor setbacks and remain confident in themselves.
Across the four studies (n's = 65 − 141), results demonstrated that mindful individuals made more benign stress appraisals, reported less frequent use of avoidant coping strategies, and in two studies, reported higher use of approach coping.
Their results, published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, indicated that highly mindful individuals were 86percentt more likely to be in good cardiovascular health than individuals low in mindfulness even after adjusting for age, gender, and race.
"Being non-judgmental may increase the likelihood of accepting the self, which may increase the willingness of more mindful individuals to explore and examine the self ultimately, being more familiar or friendly with themselves," explains lead author Adam W. Hanley.
Self-discovery, heightened levels of self-awareness and ultimately self-realization have been the goals of progressive, mindful individuals for eons.
