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When Liv Sutcliffe's hair-trigger temper gets her tossed off her beloved soccer team and alienates her best friend, Liv realizes that she has to do something about her anger issues; so she takes a class in mindfulness and ends up coaching her teacher's son, Damien, in soccer moves--but will her efforts at anger management be successful enough get her reinstated before the big game?

The capacity to selectively attend to internal experiences – internal attention (IA) – is a fundamental characteristic of human mental life and functionally important. IA enables adaptive forms of internally-directed cognition (IDC) (e.g., goal-setting) through its close links with working memory and inhibition. In turn, IA can alternatively potentiate maladaptive forms of IDC (e.g., rumination). For example, by narrowing attentional scope to negative thoughts and memories. Accordingly, IA is a potential target and mechanism of change for psychological interventions; for novel and established (e.g., mindfulness-based) interventions. Despite the theorized importance of IA in mental health, research has primarily focused on external (i.e., sensory-perceptual) attention and its dysregulation; likely due to lack of cognitive-experimental methods designed to directly measure and quantify IA and its dysregulation.We therefore aimed to advance the science of IA in three forms – its measurement, its role in maladaptive IDC and mental health, and as a candidate intervention mechanism. First, to advance measurement methods of IA, we introduced a novel experimental method designed to provide greater experimental control over the content and timing of verbal thought-like stimuli, to permit novel experimental study of IA processes (Study 1). Second, to advance understanding of the role of IA in maladaptive IDC and mental health, we test the role of IA processes in psychological disorders (attentional disengagement and bias in anxiety and depression, in Study 1; cognitive inhibition and PTSD, in Study 2). Furthermore, we develop a novel formalized computational theory and model, grounded in complex dynamical systems, for understanding the role of IA in IDC and mental health (Study 3). Third, to examine IA as a candidate intervention target, we test the role of selective IA, in the form of cognitive inhibition, as a mechanism-of-change in a randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention targeting IDC, among a traumatized population in whom cognitive inhibition is thought to be impaired and related to trauma-related psychopathology (Study 2).Accordingly, in Study 1, the novel Simulated Thought Paradigm (STP) was integrated into established cognitive-experimental tasks. In two independent experiments (NTotal = 122) we found and replicated evidence that emotional reactivity to negative thoughts predicted difficulty disengaging IA from-, as well as biased selective IA to-, those thoughts, which predicted cognitive vulnerability (e.g., negative repetitive thinking) and, in-turn, anxiety and depression. These studies and findings have exciting implications for the study of internal attention broadly – through the potential application of STP to existing and novel research questions and methods, as well as for informing models of IA in mental health.In Study 2, in a randomized wait-list control trial of Mindfulness-based Trauma Recovery for Refugees among traumatized asylum-seekers (N = 143), we found that IA dysregulation, in the form of cognitive disinhibition of trauma- and threat-related information, were associated with greater PTSD symptom severity. Although the intervention led to improved CI of trauma- and threat-related information, this change process did not mediate the intervention’s therapeutic effect on PTSD. Findings have implications for extant theory implicating cognitive inhibition deficits in post-traumatic stress and the role of IA in mental health; as well as for understanding of mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based interventions broadly and with respect to IA as a candidate intervention mechanism more specifically.

Elmer the patchwork elephant finds many things interesting during his walk, but cannot persuade any other animals to stop and enjoy them with him.

Little John Marco is a keen observer of his world, but nobody--not his big brothers and sisters, not his parents, or his neighbors--listens to him; and only the fat orange cat in the front yard agrees with him that the tree in the yard is falling down.

Almost any book--self-help, psychology, religion, sports, health and fitness, memoir, business, even fiction--can inspire a reader. The term is more often applied to a generic spirituality that is aimed to appeal to readers of any faith, or no faith. These books might not refer to God or a supreme being at all; if they do, it is in a decidedly nonreligious fashion.

\"In this illustrated picture book, a young child learns to find comfort in silence when the world becomes too noisy.\"-- Provided by publisher.

Adam Avin is a strong believer that mindfulness is the key to coping with stress, pressure and the strong emotions that the teenage years often bring. And he would know--he's not only a teen himself, but he's a mindfulness expert and the founder of Wuf Shanti, an organization that teaches kids of all ages to be more mindful. In Stress Less, Adam walks you through the reasons why coping with emotions and stress in a healthy way is good for your body and mind. He will teach you what mindfulness is and how to develop a mindful mindset so that you can find balance and focus on the present, rather than worrying about the past or the future. Stress Less features a foreword by Udonis Haslem, three-time NBA Champion with the Miami HEAT, founder of The Udonis Haslem Foundation and advocate for mental health in underserved communities, a passion that stems from his own experiences. Adam also shares his favorite tried-and-tested ways to overcome difficult feelings. You will learn about affirmations, meditation, breathwork and how to use journaling, all of which can help you feel less overwhelmed, anxious and depressed. Using these tools will help you to become calmer, happier and more content, and establish a solid mental health practice and toolkit to rely on for years to come.