Multitasking And Mindfulness

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In today’s social media and technological age, the terms multitasking and mindfulness have become popular terms. The increase in everything technological has caused many to wonder whether or not it is making people too busy. Merriam-Webster defines multitasking as “the performance of multiple tasks a time.” A person who can multitask is someone who can do more than one task simultaneously. Some research says that having a busy mind is not healthy and that people should try not to have such busy minds. Studies on multitaskers suggest that regular multitaskers are likely to “have larger deficits in performance than those who multitask less.” (Carrier, Rosen, Cheever, & Lim, 2014) In other words, while multitasking might feel like you are …show more content…
According to the Mindful website, “Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.” A person who is mindful is aware of what they are doing or what is going on around them. In A Mindful Way Through Anxiety, Orsillo and Roemer describe mindfulness as a specific way of paying attention to things around you and expanding your attention to what you are experiencing. (Orsillo & Roemer, 2011, pg. 81). Many articles I read for this paper say that being mindful is a good way of breaking free of our busy lives. In her book for teachers, Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness (2009), Schoeberlein says that “just a few moments of mindfulness each day have been shown to alleviate stress, boost immunity, decrease pain, lessen anxiety, decrease insomnia, and improve creativity” (Schoeberlein David, 2009). As a first year student here at Suffolk, I tend to see both sides of mindfulness and multitasking within the confines of the school. I see it in classrooms, the library, outside of class and walking to class or leaving class. I happen to believe that my peers and I are more multitaskers than mindful …show more content…
11). Many studies show being mindful and practicing meditation increase concentration and focus and also reduce anxiety and stress. Many colleges and universities are now adding this to their campuses to help students be more successful. In the article Moving from Multitasking to Mindfulness, Roush describes that many colleges have now added direct teaching of mindfulness meditation as well as areas designed for students to find quiet time. (Roush, 2015). While mostly positive, not all of the research on this topic is. Some studies suggest that too much mindfulness can be negative. Research done on this topic describe that mindfulness and meditation can also cause some people to recall memories that never happened and that your memory following your meditation session can not be reliable. Psychologist Brent Wilson describes the results of his experiment showed that the participants “reality-monitoring accuracy may be impaired, increasing their susceptibility to false memories and that it was harder for people to later discriminate between things we encountered and things we merely imagined. In this way, they conclude, “mindfulness meditation appears to reduce reality-monitoring accuracy.” (Jacobs, 2015). Many people see
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