Ask Mark 5.9 - Mindfulness...

Ask Mark 5.9 - Mindfulness... Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf . If you'd like to comment on any of this video, please e-mail [email protected]. For more information and queries, visit our Facebook page here: http://bit.ly/2cP4glc . CC-BY-NC University of Cape Town. Visit creativecommons.org for more information on this licence. Question: (1) Do you have an opinion on how mindfulness (and its formal practice of meditation) might affect the 'usual' way that the mind works, especially with relation to thinking? (2) How do you see the practice of mindfulness affecting the mind/ each of the four aspects of the mind you have taught us the last four weeks? (3) I'm not easily swayed by a lack of scientific evidence, but my subjective experience of mindfulness means the evidence must be there somewhere. Hence a follow-up question: "From a scientific perspective, have convincing neurological correlates been found?"