Part I. Mindfulness in Perspective

Chapter 1. Consciousness and Awareness: East and West

1.1. Consciousness and Awareness

1.2. One or Many: Self and World Around

1.3. Western Perspectives on the Self

1.4. Thinking Architecture and the Mental Status

1.5. Eastern Perspectives: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Yoga

1.6. Buddhist Perspectives on MIND

1.7. Hinduism: SELF as Atman, a Microcosmic Centration of Divinity

1.8. Narcissism

1.9. Mindfulness: More than a Five-Minute Time-out Practice

Chapter 2. Modern Mindfulness

2.1. Mindfulness: An Overview

2.2. Why Mindfulness?

2.3. Mindfulness Approaches in the West

2.4. Mindfulness: Foundational Perspectives

2.5. Mindfulness Meditation Practices in the West

2.6. The Role of Technology in Modern Mindfulness

Part II. Emotional Awareness and Mindfulness

Chapter 3. Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness

3.1. Emotions as a Second Language—or Should They be our First?

3.2. Emotions are our First Language

3.3. Emotional Processing

3.4. A Primer of Emotions

3.5. Feelings with Privileged Status: Loss, Envy, Greed, Jealousy, and Guilt

3.6. Emotional Literacy: The Refinement of Emotional Intelligence

3.7. The Developmental Psychology of Emotions in Infancy

3.8. Cultivating Positive Emotions and Mindfulness

3.9. Emotions and Motivation

3.10. Resilience

Chapter 4. Learned Mindfulness—An Emotional Intelligence Perspective

4.1. Learned Mindfulness: The Memory of Wholeness

4.2. Burnout: the Need for Learned Mindfulness as a Stress Reduction Tool

4.3. Mindfulness-Informed Tools

4.4. Emotional Self-Regulation

4.5. Emotional Intelligence Mindfulness Practice

4.6. Learned Mindfulness Is Emotional Hygiene

4.7. Learned Mindfulness: Remembering to Remain Actively Awake

Part III. Integrity: Mindfulness Engaged

Chapter 5. Authentic Integrity: A Premier Character Strength

5.1. An “Integrity Mindfulness” Model

5.2. Learned Mindfulness

5.3. Learned Mindfulness: Achieving Authentic Integrity

5.4. Authentic Integrity Is a Peakless Mountain

5.5. Learned Mindfulness: Character Strengths and Positive Psychosocial Characteristics

5.6. Integral Empathy

5.7. Transparency

5.8. Personality

5.9. The High-Reliability Personality

Chapter 6. Physician Wellness: Engaging Mindfulness

6.1. Enhancing Wellness and Physician Engagement

6.2. Enhancing Professional Engagement

6.3. The Benefits of Physician Engagement

6.4. Merging Physician Engagement and Organizational Alignment

6.5. Value-Based Self-Leadership Development

6.6. Mindful Equipoise: Integrity, Values, and Empathy

6.7. Final Thoughts