Mindfulness meditation and curiosity: The contributing factors to wellbeing and the process of closing the self-discrepancy gap
International Journal of Wellbeing October 16, 2011 Itai Ivtzan, Hannah E. Gardner, Zhanar Smailova 24 citations
Actual/ideal self-discrepancy is the measurable difference between an individual's beliefs about who they think they are (actual self) and their image of the person they would ideally like to be (ideal self).When the self-discrepancy gap is small, higher psychological wellbeing exists.Mindfulness meditation, by means of greater awareness of the continuous fluctuation of thought from one point...