The Self-kindness Component of Mindfulness Meditation: A Helpful Strategy to Enhance Emotion Regulation and Reduce the Depression and Distress Symptoms in Women with Breast Cancer
Katarzyna Rygiel
The Management of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: An Integrated and Expeditionary Approach December 18, 2023 DOI: 10.2174/9789815196023123010017 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Practical guide or manual Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Depression Meditation |
| Key points | The chapter proposes self-kindness, a component of mindfulness meditation, as a technique to ease distress, anxiety, and depressive feelings and to build resilience in patients with cancer, particularly younger women with breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer, who face both serious illness and family and work obligations. |
Abstract
It has been demonstrated that one of the components of mindfulness meditation, called self-kindness, plays a prominent role in alleviating distress perception, and reducing depressive symptoms, especially among younger women with breast cancer (BC), who represent a particularly vulnerable patient population, often struggling not only with a serious illness but also with numerous family and work-related obligations. This chapter will describe in detail self-kindness as a technique to help ease distress, anxiety, and depressive feelings, as well as enhance resilience and establish objective health-related expectations or goals for patients with cancer, including women with an aggressive subtype of BC, such as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
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