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The Significance of Mindfulness-Based Educational Methods Provided by Cognitonics for Positive Psychology Movement
The positive psychology movement fulfills a shift from the accent on repairing weakness to the enhancement of positive qualities of the personality and preventing the problems before the moment when these problems arise. The publications on positive psychology allow for distinguishing a factor being especially beneficial to well-being, this factor is called mindfulness. Generalizing a number of available definitions of this concept, mindfulness can be characterized as the ability to maximally proceed from the context while taking decisions in any situations. The paper sets forth the deep connections of cognitonics with the positive psychology movement. Cognitonics is a new scientific discipline aiming at compensating the negative shifts in the cognitive-emotional development of personality and society caused by stormy progress of information and communication technologies and globalization processes. It is shown that cognitonics suggests a system of original, mindfulness-based educational methods supporting effective cognitive-emotional development of the personality in modern information society.