Mindfulness and Performance [Paperback]

This volume gives an overview of cutting-edge research on mindfulness and its practical applications for maximizing performance and personal well-being.This volume illustrates how performers from a variety of disciplines - including sport, dance and music - can use mindfulness to achieve peak performance and improve personal well-being. An international group of leading scholars presents cutting-edge research, demonstrating the efficacy of mindfulness across cultures.This volume illustrates how performers from a variety of disciplines - including sport, dance and music - can use mindfulness to achieve peak performance and improve personal well-being. An international group of leading scholars presents cutting-edge research, demonstrating the efficacy of mindfulness across cultures.Incorporating the theoretical conceptualizations of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Ellen Langer, this volume illustrates how performers from a variety of disciplines - including sport, dance and music - can use mindfulness to achieve peak performance and improve personal well-being. Leading scholars in the field present cutting-edge research and outline their unique approach to mindfulness that is supported by both theory and practice. They provide an overview of current mindfulness-based manuals and programs used around the globe in countries such as the United States, China and Australia, exploring their effectiveness across cultures. Mindfulness and Performance will be a beneficial reference for practitioners, social and sport psychologists, coaches, athletes, teachers and students.Part I. Introduction to Mindfulness: History and Theoretical Understanding: 1. Mindfulness scholarship and interventions: a review Itai Ivtzan and Rona Hart; 2. Mindfulness, emotion regulation, and performance Zella E. Moore; 3. Self-compassion, distress tolerance, and mindfulness in performance Amy L. Baltzell; 4. Flow and mindfulness in performance Susan Jackson; 5. Peak performance: Langerian mindfulness and flow Sayyls!