Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
2012
Christy I. Wenger
6 citations
“A right, everyone knows what to do,” I say. “Be sure to sit up straight in your chair and plant your feet firmly on the ground, letting that connection give you a sense of stability and rootedness, like how you feel in tree pose.” Some students shift with these words, but many remain still, already practicing the attentiveness we’ve been cultivating over the past few weeks. They have learned...
Transpersonal Psychology Review
2012
Mani Mala Sundaram
This paper discusses the relationship between spirituality and happiness. Firstly, research and views from different disciplines are presented to show how malecialism causes unhaippiness and how spirituality is needed to remove the harmful effects of materialism. Secondly, the nature of spirituality and the spiritual life are explored in relation to happiness. Finally, the role and value of...
Autism Research and Treatment
2012
Sonia M. Sequeira, Mahiuddin Ahmed
23 citations
Autism is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown cause that affects approximately 1-3 percent of children and four times more boys than girls. Its prevalence is global and its social impact is devastating. In autism, the brain is unable to process sensory information normally. Instead, simple stimuli from the outside world are experienced as overwhelmingly intense and strain the...
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
2012
Shian-Ling Keng, Moria J Smoski, Clive J. Robins et al.
Research has demonstrated support for the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in alleviating psychological distress and symptoms. Less is known, however, about the mechanisms through which MBSR achieves its outcomes. This study examined mindfulness and self-compassion as potential mediators of MBSR’s effects on several processes and behaviors related to emotion regulation,...
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
2012
Brett Froeliger, Eric L Garland, Leslie A Modlin et al.
Mindfulness meditation involves attending to emotions without cognitive fixation of emotional experience. Over time, this practice is held to promote alterations in trait affectivity and attentional control with resultant effects on well-being and cognition. However, relatively little is known regarding the neural substrates of meditation effects on emotion and cognition. The present study...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2012
Philippe R. Goldin, Michal Ziv, Hooria Jazaieri et al.
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by distorted self-views. The goal of this study was to examine whether mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) alters behavioral and brain measures of negative and positive self-views. Fifty-six adult patients with generalized SAD were randomly assigned to MBSR or a comparison aerobic exercise (AE) program. A self-referential encoding task was...
Psychology
2012
Marion Trousselard, Dominique Steiler, Damien Claverie et al.
13 citations
Although interest in incorporating mindfulness into medical interventions is growing, data on the relationships between mindfulness, stress and coping in military personnel is still scarce. This report investigates the relationship between psychological adjustment and mindfulness in soldiers according to their repeated deployments and confrontations with stressors. Our findings indicate that...
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
January 2012
Chantal Bailie, Willem Kuyken, Stefanie J. Sonnenberg
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a relatively new intervention that has been developed to help people with recurrent depression stay well in the long term. Although there is evidence that depression impacts negatively on parenting, little is known regarding MBCT's potential impact on parenting. This study used a qualitative design to explore how parents with a history of recurrent...
Stress
January 2012
Ye-Ha Jung, Do‐hyung Kang, Min Soo Byun et al.
Meditation may show differential effects on stress and plasma catecholamines based on genetic polymorphisms in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and catechol O-methyl transferase (COMT). Eighty adults (40 men, 40 women; mean age 26 years) who practiced meditation regularly and 57 healthy control adults (35 men, 22 women; mean age 26 years) participated. Plasma catecholamines...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2012
Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, James Carmody, Gloria Y Yeh et al.
12 citations
Background. Meditation practices are associated with a reduction in adrenergic activity that may benefit patients with severe cardiac arrhythmias. This paper describes the design and methods of a pilot study testing the feasibility of a phone-delivered mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) for treatment of anxiety in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Design and...
International journal of hypertension
2012
Carly M Goldstein, Richard Josephson, Susan Xie et al.
Meditation techniques are increasingly popular practices that may be useful in preventing or reducing elevated blood pressure. We reviewed landmark studies and recent literature concerning the use of meditation for reducing blood pressure in pre-hypertensive and hypertensive individuals. We sought to highlight underlying assumptions, identify strengths and weaknesses of the research, and...
BMJ Open
2012
Adele Krusche, Eva Cyhlarova, Scott King et al.
120 citations
OBJECTIVES: Stress has been shown to have a number of negative effects on health over time. Mindfulness interventions have been shown to decrease perceived stress but access to interventions is limited. Therefore, the effectiveness of an online mindfulness course for perceived stress was investigated. DESIGN: A preliminary evaluation of an online mindfulness course. PARTICIPANTS: This sample...
2012
Denise M. Kirby
Mindfulness is defined as a fundamental way of being, a way of relating to all of one‟s experiences whether positive, negative, or neutral, with an attentive, curious, and nonevaluative mindset (Kabat-Zinn, 2003; Williams, Teasdale, Segal, & Kabat-Zinn, 2007). The basic premise underlying mindfulness is that accepting moment-to-moment experiences as they arise, with an open-minded disposition,...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2012
Brett Froeliger, Eric L Garland, F Joseph McClernon
Hatha yoga techniques, including physical postures (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), and meditation, involve the practice of mindfulness. In turn, yoga meditation practices may induce the state of mindfulness, which, when evoked recurrently through repeated practice, may accrue into trait or dispositional mindfulness. Putatively, these changes may be mediated by experience-dependent...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2012
Brett Froeliger, Eric L Garland, Rachel V Kozink et al.
Meditation practice alters intrinsic resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in the default mode network (DMN). However, little is known regarding the effects of meditation on other resting-state networks. The aim of current study was to investigate the effects of meditation experience and meditation-state functional connectivity (msFC) on multiple resting-state networks (RSNs). Meditation...
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
2012
Matthew J Goodman, John B Schorling
Healthcare providers are under increasing stress and work-related burnout has become common. Mindfulness-based interventions have a potential role in decreasing stress and burnout. The purpose of this study was to determine if a continuing education course based on mindfulness-based stress reduction could decrease burnout and improve mental well-being among healthcare providers, from different...
Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology
2012
Hideho Arita
To gain insight into the neurophysiological mechanisms involved in Zen meditation, we evaluated the effects of abdominal (Tanden) breathing in novices. We investigated hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), an ttention-related brain region, using 24-channel near-infrared spectroscopy during a 20-munite session of Tanden breathing in 15 healthy volunteers. We found that the level of...
Explore
2012
Adam Burke
A significant number of studies have been published examining the mind-body effects of meditation and its clinical efficacy. There are very few studies, however, which directly compare different meditation methods with each other to explore potentially distinct mechanisms and effects, and no studies comparing individual preferences for different methods. As preference is seen as an important...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
2012
Álvaro I Langer, Adolfo J. Cangas, Estela Salcedo et al.
There are already several existing studies that show the effectiveness of mindfulness-based approaches in varying types of disorders. Only a few studies, however, have analyzed the effectiveness of this intervention in psychosis, and without finding, up to now, significant differences from the control group. The aim of this study is two-fold: to replicate previous studies, and to focus on...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2012
Marc Cohen
In distinction, higher power in the gamma band has been found in advanced Buddhist meditators across differing meditation practices. We used exact Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (eLORETA) to compare experienced (mean 4 years’ experience) and advanced (mean 30 years’ experience) Australian meditators from the Satyananda Yoga tradition on two meditation practices and a mental...