Mindfulness and anxiety disorders: Developing a wise relationship with the inner experience of fear

TY - CHAP

T1 - Mindfulness and anxiety disorders

T2 - Developing a wise relationship with the inner experience of fear

AU - Greeson, Jeffrey

AU - Brantley, Jeffrey

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Perhaps no condition better illustrates the intimate relationship between brain and behavior-mind and body-as the inner experience of fear. In this chapter, we present an integrative scientific view of anxiety and clinical anxiety disorders, with an emphasis on awareness and acceptance as a foundation for mind/body health. Whereas anxiety-related psychopathology is characterized by a desire to avoid the inner experience of fear, we postulate that practicing mindfulness can promote a wise and accepting relationship with one's internal cognitive, emotional, and physical experience, even during times of intense fear or worry.

AB - Perhaps no condition better illustrates the intimate relationship between brain and behavior-mind and body-as the inner experience of fear. In this chapter, we present an integrative scientific view of anxiety and clinical anxiety disorders, with an emphasis on awareness and acceptance as a foundation for mind/body health. Whereas anxiety-related psychopathology is characterized by a desire to avoid the inner experience of fear, we postulate that practicing mindfulness can promote a wise and accepting relationship with one's internal cognitive, emotional, and physical experience, even during times of intense fear or worry.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84891980691

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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-09593-6_11

DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-09593-6_11

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780387095929

SP - 171

EP - 188

BT - Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness

PB - Springer New York

ER -