Mindfulness meditation (MM) is a commonly used psychological intervention for pain, mood, and anxiety conditions, but can be challenging to practice with severe symptoms without proper training. The Mindfulness Meditation app (MMA) is a supportive training tool specifically developed for this study to aid in the practice of mindful breathing using a smartphone. This study aims to evaluate the...
Current research suggests that associations between headache conditions (migraine, tension) and imbalances in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) are due to stress-related dysregulation in the activity of the parasympathetic-sympathetic branches. Mindfulness meditation has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing pain-related distress, and in enhancing heart rate variability-a vagal-mediated...
Introduction/Aim: Mindful breathing is a commonly used approach in pain management. Repetitive and intrusive mind-wandering related to pain is likely to be stressful for people with chronic pain, but few studies have measured pain-related mind-wandering during mindfulness meditation (MM) for chronic pain. Methods This study examined mind-wandering during a smartphone-based MM task in 99...
Mindfulness-based interventions have received empirical support in recent decades for the management of symptoms related to depression, anxiety (Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010) and chronic pain (Chiesa & Serretti, 2011). These interventions often provide training in mindfulness practices, including the introductory practice of mindful breathing which involves paying nonjudmental attention to...