These days, students experience a significant amount of stress at university. According to the planetary health concept, internal transformative qualities, such as connectedness, may be essential for enhancing individual well-being and promoting sustainable behaviour. This randomised controlled study investigated whether online mindfulness training can enhance well-being and connectedness. One...
Theories on sensation of emotions in the body The existence of physical sensation that comes with experiencing an emotion is well investigated (Pace-Schott et al., 2019). James and Lange already postulated physical sensation as a central element in the emergence of an emotion (James, 1884). It has been suggested that somatosensory feedback can even trigger conscious emotional experiences...
Abstract Objectives The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of a brief body-focused meditation on body ownership, while considering interoceptive abilities, dissociative experiences, mood, trait mindfulness, and meditation experience. Method The sample consisted of 111 healthy students who participated in a randomized controlled trial and either listened to a 20-min...
The main goal of the study was to investigate the effects of a short loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on explicit and implicit evaluations of oneself and disliked public persons. We expected a more positive explicit and implicit evaluation of oneself and a disliked public person after the LKM and a mood improvement. Before and after the implementation of a short LKM vs. imagery task, mood,...