Mindful Movement and Skilled Attention
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience September 11, 2015 Dav eClark, Frank eSchumann, Stewart H. Mostofsky
Bodily movement has long been employed as a foundation for cultivating mental skills such as attention, self-control or mindfulness, with recent studies documenting the positive impacts of mindful movement training, such as yoga and tai chi. A parallel mind-body connection has also been observed in many developmental disorders. We elaborate a spectrum of mindfulness by considering ADHD, in...