International Journal of Yoga Therapy
September 1, 2011
Janet Hennard
21 citations
Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome characterized by widespread pain, sleep disturbance, stiffness, fatigue, headache, and mood disorders. Recent research has resulted in an improved understanding of fibromyalgia and its possible causes. This article highlights some of the current research, discusses a strategy for using yoga and meditation as a therapy for fibromyalgia sufferers, and presents...
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
September 1, 2011
Abraham Sussman, Mitchell Kossak
1 citation
Abstract This chapter discusses the psychology of the inner life and how music as meditation can tap into unitive states of being that lead to inner wisdom.
International Journal of Psychophysiology
September 1, 2011
Frederick Travis
This random-assignment study compared coherence, amplitude, and eLORETA patterns during practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the TM-Sidhi programs. The TM technique involves systematic transcending of contents of experience to a state of pure consciousness. The TM-Sidhi program involves sanyama-the simultaneous experience of dhārānā (fixity), dhyāna (transcending) and samādhi...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
September 1, 2011
Gordon C. N. Hall, Janie J. Hong, Nolan W. S. Zane et al.
122 citations
The development of effective treatments for Asian Americans is important because treatment disparities continue to exist for this population. Because of their theoretical grounding in East Asian philosophies, mindfulness and acceptance-based psychotherapies appear to constitute promising ways to provide culturally responsive mental health care to Asian Americans. However, in practice these...
Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
September 1, 2011
David Childs
5 citations
Does mindfulness offer more to psychology than a useful therapeutic technique? This paper argues that it can also establish a state of presence which is understood in relation to the practice of phenomenology. Mindfulness is then both linked to a Western intellectual tradition and offers that tradition a systematic method. This is an opening for psychological investigation of the non-conceptual...
Consciousness and Cognition
August 31, 2011
Implicit and explicit emotional behavior and mindfulness.
Biological Psychology
August 30, 2011
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), cognitive style, and the temporal dynamics of frontal EEG alpha asymmetry in recurrently depressed patients.
Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
August 30, 2011
Mindfulness groups for early psychosis: a qualitative study.
Neuroreport
August 24, 2011
Shaowei Xue, Yi-Yuan Tang, Michael I Posner
Previous studies have found that short-term integrative body-mind training (IBMT) has positive effects on the brain structure and function in the anterior cingulate cortex. Here, we determined whether 11 h of IBMT alters topological properties of the anterior cingulate cortex in brain functional networks. We applied network analysis to resting-state functional connectivity between 90 cortical...
Neuroimage
August 15, 2011
Véronique A. Taylor, Joshua A Grant, Véronique Daneault et al.
There is mounting evidence that mindfulness meditation is beneficial for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, yet little is known regarding the neural mechanisms through which mindfulness modulates emotional responses. Thus, a central objective of this functional magnetic resonance imaging study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotionally laden...
Perspectives In Psychiatric Care
August 9, 2011
The impact of mindfulness meditation in promoting a culture of safety on an acute psychiatric unit.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
August 2, 2011
David J. Kearney, Tracy L. Simpson
Sirs, We would like to thank Drs Asarel and Simren for their comments regarding our work.1 We certainly agree that studies of mindfulness interventions for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are of potentially great clinical importance. Given the high prevalence of multiple overlapping somatic syndromes,2 psychiatric conditions3 and trauma among IBS patients, interventions that emphasise learning...
Pflege
August 1, 2011
Marianne Brieskorn-Zinke
Health competence is not only a requirement for personal health action; it is also a condition for professionalisation of health promotion. Health promotion has meanwhile become a well recognised part of nursing. This is the reason why in this study the term "health competence", which is actually very much discussed in health sciences, is presented. This concept is knowledge based (health...
Stress and Health
August 1, 2011
Andrea L. Cincotta, Philip Gehrman, Nalaka S. Gooneratne et al.
AbstractThe use of mindfulness meditation for stress management has grown in recent years. Practising mindfulness meditation has been shown to help manage stress and decrease arousal, both of which are associated with difficulty sleeping; thus, mindfulness‐based stress management programmes may have a positive impact on sleep. The effects of an 8‐week mindfulness‐based stress management...
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
August 1, 2011
Stuart J. Eisendrath, M. Chartier, Maura Mclane
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is currently ranked the third leading cause of disability in the world. Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) causes the majority of MDD's disability. Strikingly, 50% of individuals with MDD will fail to remit with two adequate trials of antidepressant medications, thus qualifying as treatment resistant. Current pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Nanja H. Hansen, Esther Sorgenfrei
Askovhus modtog i 2008 midler fra Ministeriet for Sundhed og Forebyggelse til et 2-årigt projekt med behandling af spiseforstyrrelser efter metoden dialektisk adfærdsterapi (DAT). Målgruppen var kvinder med spiseforstyrrelse og personlighedsforstyrrelse (EUP). Formålet var at supplere en standardiseret DAT-behandling med en kropslig træning i mindfulness med henblik på at udvikle større...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Louise Fransgaard
2 citations
Artiklen præsenterer indledningsvis det buddhistiske fundament bag de senere års terapeutiske anvendelse af mindfulnessmeditation og -filosofi i vesten. Med to forskellige mindfulnessbaserede terapitilgange som eksempel på den såkaldte tredje bølge inden for adfærdsterapitraditionen diskuteres efterfølgende fordele, ulemper og mulige problemstillinger ved integrationen af østlig filosofi i...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Anders Thingmand
I artiklen foretages en kritisk analyse af måden, hvorpå mindfulness-meditation forsøges integreret i medicin og psykologi i Mindfulness Baseret Stress Reduktion og Mindfulness Baseret Kognitiv Terapi. Særligt problematiseres påstanden om, at Mindfulness Baseret Kognitiv Terapi skulle udgøre en ”syntese” af forståelsen af kroppen og sindet i kognitiv terapi og buddhistisk mindfulness, da en...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Klaus B. Bærentsen
1 citation
Meditation er en klassisk spirituel praksis, rettet mod at bringe sindet i ro. I artiklen rapporteres en undersøgelse af hjerneprocesser under meditation med anvendelse af fMRI. Formålet er at identificere og karakterisere hjerneprocessernes forløb under skiftet fra normal hvile til meditation og under kontinuert vedvarende meditation. Under skiftet til meditation blev der fundet øget...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
R. Singla
“The East and the West must unite to provide one another with what is lacking” Abdu'l Baha in Sinha & Sinha, 1997 Mindfulness & meditation are gaining popularity in the Western psychological practice in the past 4-5 decades, especially within psychotherapeutic approaches, health promotion, and stress reduction. The origins and the broader context, however, seem to be overlooked in some of...