Importance of mindfulness in securing attachment

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Well mindfulness basically means the ability to stay in touch with what you feel, both what you feel physically and emotionally. If you're not in touch with what you feel, it's going to be very difficult to be in touch with anybody else's feelings. And particularly, you're not going to be able to really pick up your infant's emotional cues and it's just going to be much harder to read your child, if you can't read yourself emotionally. And mindfulness is a practice for learning to do this. To be both calm, focused and emotionally connected.

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Jeanne Segal, PhD

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Jeanne Segal is a mother and grandmother with an MA degree in psychology and PhD in sociology. She is an author whose books have been translated into 13 languages. Dr. Segal is the developer and content editor of Helpguide.org, a nonprofit website that helps people help themselves. Helpguide attracts over 1 million viewers a week and collaborates with the publishing arm of Harvard Medical School. One of the topics covered on the Helpguide.org website that is dearest to her heart is infant mental health.

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Well mindfulness basically means the ability to stay in touch with what you feel, both what you feel physically and emotionally. If you're not in touch with what you feel, it's going to be very difficult to be in touch with anybody else's feelings. And particularly, you're not going to be able to really pick up your infant's emotional cues and it's just going to be much harder to read your child, if you can't read yourself emotionally. And mindfulness is a practice for learning to do this. To be both calm, focused and emotionally connected.