Biological Pathways Linking Mindfulness with Health
INDIGO June 30, 2018 J. David Creswell 44 citations
Mindfulness may protect health by buffering stress. The chapter formalizes the mindfulness stress-buffering hypothesis, reviews evidence for it, and grounds it in a biological model showing how mindfulness influences stress-related neural and peripheral pathways, potentially explaining a range of stress-related mental and physical health outcomes. The account raises new questions for future research.