Oxford University Press eBooks
July 28, 2011
Ansuman Biswas
6 citations
A significant lacuna in academic and scientific studies of consciousness is a description of how it actually feels to be here. The study of consciousness has proved to be extremely elusive when using the traditional third-person methodology of science. Any description of qualia — by definition lived, subjective experience — seems to necessitate the admission of first-person data, which has...
Journal of Pain Research
July 26, 2011
An eight-week yoga intervention is associated with improvements in pain, psychological functioning and mindfulness, and changes in cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia.
Clinical Psychology Review
July 26, 2011
Stefan G Hofmann, Paul Grossman, Devon E Hinton
945 citations
Mindfulness-based meditation interventions have become increasingly popular in contemporary psychology. Other closely related meditation practices include loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM), exercises oriented toward enhancing unconditional, positive emotional states of kindness and compassion. This article provides a review of the background, the techniques, and...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
July 20, 2011
Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire--reliability and factor structure: a Swedish version.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
July 18, 2011
Nicole Geschwind, Frenk Peeters, Marjan Drukker et al.
440 citations
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) increases momentary positive emotions and the ability to make use of natural rewards in daily life. METHOD: Adults with a life-time history of depression and current residual depressive symptoms (mean age = 43.9 years, SD = 9.6; 75% female; all Caucasian) were randomized to MBCT (n = 64) or waitlist control (CONTROL; n =...
Cognitive Therapy and Research
July 13, 2011
Mindfulness is Inversely Associated with Alcohol Attentional Bias Among Recovering Alcohol-Dependent Adults.
Frontiers in Psychology
July 12, 2011
The influence of concentrative meditation training on the development of attention networks during early adolescence.
Buddhist Studies Review
July 8, 2011
Lee Su-kyung
This article gives an overview of Buddhist-oriented meditation techniques that were integrated with art projects for four and five year old kindergarten children at Dong Guk Kindergarten, Gyeongju City, South Korea. The article assesses the effect of this program on the creatvitiy levels of the children.
Buddhist Studies Review
July 8, 2011
R. Will Burnett
61 citations
This paper explores the adult mindfulness landscape, secular and Buddhist, in order to inform an approach to the teaching of mindfulness in secondary schools. The Introduction explains the background to the project and the significant overlap between secular and Buddhist practices. I explain what mindfulness is and highlight a number of important practical differences between the teaching of...
Neuroimage
July 7, 2011
Meditation training increases brain efficiency in an attention task.
Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social Thought
July 1, 2011
Tessa McGarrigle, Christine A. Walsh
156 citations
The demands placed on human service workers in supporting people through challenging circumstances can contribute to high levels of stress and burnout. Self-care practices implemented regularly may decrease the impact of the high levels of stress while also serving as strategies for coping during particularly stressful times. The interconnections between contemplative practices, including...
中華佛學學報
July 1, 2011
Giuliana Martini
2 citations
This article is a study of loving kindness meditation as presented in the third chapter of the Khotanese Book of Zambasta in the light of its Chinese parallel, the Da fangguang fo huayan jing xiuci fen 大方廣佛華嚴經修慈分 (T 306), a Buddhavatamsaka (Fo huayan 佛華嚴) work. Chapter three is first assessed in relationship to the structure and content of the Book of Zambasta. It is then analyzed in terms of...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
July 1, 2011
Mindfulness training for smoking cessation: results from a randomized controlled trial.
International Journal of Yoga
July 1, 2011
Meditation induces a positive response during stress events in young Indian adults.
Alzheimer s & Dementia
July 1, 2011
Lap Ho, Patricia A. Bloom, Joan Griffiths Vega et al.
4 citations
Numerous studies have documented that caregiving for a dementia patient may be associated with increased risk of emotional distress, depression, dementia, physical health problems, and death. Other studies suggest that targeting caregivers as the recipients of interventions may greatly improve Alzheimer's care, leading to reduced behavioral symptoms and increased length of time that the...
New Zealand Journal of Counselling
July 1, 2011
Tim Mapel, Jillian Simpson
The popularity of mindfulness as a therapeutic approach is growing. International research has shown mindfulness to be an effective treatment for a wide range of physical and psychological conditions. Little research into mindfulness has been done in Aotearoa New Zealand. This report documents a locally conducted waitlist control study of the effectiveness of using Mindfulness-Based Stress...
Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia
July 1, 2011
Margarida Pedroso de Lima, Albertina Lima de Oliveira, Patrícia Godinho
2 citations
O objectivo do presente artigo é apresentar os resultados da aplicação de uma intervenção baseada nos princípios do mindfulness, a qual visou promover o bem-estar de idosos institucionalizados. A amostra é constituída por sete idosos residentes na Unidade de Saúde de Coimbra – Fernão Mendes Pinto – com uma média de idades de 75.1 anos, alfabetizados, com ausência de défices sensoriais e de...
PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
July 2011
Petra Meibert, Johannes Michalak, Thomas Heidenreich
In the context of an increasing interest in mindfulness-based approaches both in clinical application as well as in the field of research the present paper introduces MBSR (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction), illustrates the theoretical background of mindfulness practice and reviews the procedures during the cultivation of mindfulness and possible impacting factors. The article also reviews...
Psychologica
July 1, 2011
Sónia Gregório, José Pinto-Gouveia
39 citations
O mindfulness tem sido definido como prestar atenção com propósito, no momento presente e sem ajuizar a experiência. Nos últimos anos têm sido desenvolvidos vários instrumentos de medida do mindfulness. Este artigo tem como objectivo apresentar a aferição do Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) para a população portuguesa. 821 Sujeitos completaram o FFMQ e outras medidas de...
Papyrus : Institutional Repository (Université de Montréal)
July 1, 2011
Véronique A. Taylor
La méditation par le ‘mindfulness’ favorise la stabilité émotionelle, mais les mécanismes neuroneux qui sous-tendent ces effets sont peu connus. Ce projet investiga l’effet du ‘mindfulness’ sur les réponses cérébrales et subjectives à des images négatives, positives et neutres chez des méditants expérimentés et des débutants au moyen de l’imagerie par résonance magnétique fonctionnelle (IRMf)....