Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
January 25, 2017
Klaus Blaser, Jacqueline Buchli-Kammermann
Abstract42 individuals completed an 8-week course to strengthen the mental self-boundary. The group met on seven evenings (2 ½ hours) and for an entire day (6 hours) to exchange experiences and train the conscious perception of their mental self-boundary in pairs or as a group. At home they carried out a guided imagination exercise every day and kept a diary on specific self-boundary issues....
January 23, 2017
Loriliai Biernacki
This paper addresses imagination, focusing on two words, bhāvana and vikalpa, both frequently translated as "imagination," and addresses the connections imagination has with the body, specifically within the context of contemplative practices. Drawing primarily from the 10th and 11th century philosophical school of the Pratyabhijñā of Abhinavagupta and Utpaladeva, this paper proposes a more...
Journal of Clinical Oncology
January 20, 2017
Suzanne K Chambers, Stefano Occhipinti, Elizabeth Foley et al.
Purpose Advanced prostate cancer (PC) is associated with substantial psychosocial morbidity. We sought to determine whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) reduces distress in men with advanced PC. Methods Men with advanced PC (proven metastatic and/or castration-resistant biochemical progression) were randomly assigned to an 8-week, group-based MBCT intervention delivered by...
January 19, 2017
B. Kutty
1.1.Background:Sleep state related cardiac autonomic modulations are important for proper cardiovascular functions and to maintain homeostasis during sleep. The present study evaluates the efficacy of Vipassana meditation on cardio autonomic dynamicity across sleep cycles during sleep. 1.2.Methods:26 Senior Vipassana meditation practitioners and 23 non-meditating control subjects participated...
Supportive Care in Cancer
January 19, 2017
Rebecca A Campo, Karen Bluth, Sheila J Santacroce et al.
Purpose: Young adult (YA) cancer survivors report substantial distress, social isolation, and body image concerns that can impede successful reintegration into life years after treatment completion. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) interventions focus on developing mindfulness and self-compassion for managing distress, hardships, and perceived personal inadequacies. An MSC intervention would be...
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
January 18, 2017
Kim E Innes, Terry Kit Selfe, D. Khalsa et al.
Background: While effective therapies for preventing or slowing cognitive decline in at-risk populations remain elusive, evidence suggests mind-body interventions may hold promise. Objectives: In this study, we assessed the effects of Kirtan Kriya meditation (KK) and music listening (ML) on cognitive outcomes in adults experiencing subjective cognitive decline (SCD), a strong predictor of...
Neuroimage
January 18, 2017
Hannah J. Scheibner, Carsten Bogler, Tobias Gleich et al.
136 citations
Focused attention meditations have been shown to improve psychological health and wellbeing and are nowadays an integral part of many psychotherapies. While research on the neural correlates of focused attention meditation is increasing, findings vary on whether meditations are associated with high or low activity in the default mode network (DMN). To clarify the relationship between focused...
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
January 16, 2017
Madhuri R Tolahunase, Rajesh Sagar, Rima Dada
This study was designed to explore the impact of Yoga and Meditation based lifestyle intervention (YMLI) on cellular aging in apparently healthy individuals. During this 12-week prospective, open-label, single arm exploratory study, 96 apparently healthy individuals were enrolled to receive YMLI. The primary endpoints were assessment of the change in levels of cardinal biomarkers of cellular...
Pilot and Feasibility Studies
January 16, 2017
Angeliki Bogosian, Catherine S. Hurt, Debora Vasconcelos E Sa et al.
12 citations
BACKGROUND: Psychological difficulties, especially depression and anxiety, are the most prevalent non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Pharmacological treatments for these conditions appear relatively ineffective in Parkinson's disease. Mindfulness courses are increasingly popular and recognised as effective for managing emotional states, and there is growing evidence for the...
California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal
January 13, 2017
Paul T. Stuhr, Marie D. Thomas
Mindfulness is a form of focused attention on the present moment. Kabat-Zinn (2003) defined mindfulness as, “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by mo-ment” (p. 145). There is promising evidence suggesting that mindfulness can be used as a valid practice or tool in education to promote...
Mindfulness
January 12, 2017
Marloes J. Huijbers, R. Crane, Willem Kuyken et al.
As mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) becomes an increasingly mainstream approach for recurrent depression, there is a growing need for practitioners who are able to teach MBCT. The requirements for being competent as a mindfulness-based teacher include personal meditation practice and at least a year of additional professional training. This study is the first to investigate the...
Journal of American College Health
January 11, 2017
Kamila Dvořáková, Moé Kishida, Jacinda C. Li et al.
ABSTRACT Objective: Given the importance of developmental transitions on young adults' lives and the high rates of mental health issues among U.S. college students, first-year college students can be particularly vulnerable to stress and adversity. This pilot study evaluated the effectiveness and feasibility of mindfulness training aiming to promote first-year college students' health and...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
January 10, 2017
Matthew D Thurston, P. Goldin, Richard G. Heimberg et al.
This study examines the impact of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy (CBGT) versus Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) versus Waitlist (WL) on self-views in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). One hundred eight unmedicated patients with SAD were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of CBGT, MBSR, or WL, and completed a self-referential encoding task (SRET) that assessed self-endorsement...
Anales de Psicología
January 10, 2017
Raquel Rodríguez‐carvajal, Carlos García-rubio, David Paniagua et al.
There are more and more studies showing the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) in well-being. However, there are few studies that explore the mechanisms underlying this effect. The aim of this study is to present and validate the Integrative Model of Mindfulness (MIM). MIM main hypothesis is that mindfulness practice leads to an increment in mindfulness trait, which leads to...
Psychological Reports
January 6, 2017
Denholm J Adventure-Heart, Michael Proeve
115 citations
An experiment involving 115 undergraduate students (74.8% females; mean age = 20.5 years, SD = 4.3) was conducted to explore effects of meditation on social connectedness, nature connectedness, and affect. Participants listened to one of three brief guided meditation Mp3 recordings via the internet, which involved mindfulness meditation (MM), loving-kindness meditation (LKM), or progressive...
January 2, 2017
Anna Ridderinkhof, E. D. de Bruin, E. Brummelman et al.
Abstract Cultivating empathy is a presumed benefit of mindfulness, but this possibility has rarely been investigated experimentally. We examined whether a five-minute mindfulness exercise would cultivate empathy relative to two equally brief control exercises: relaxation and mind-wandering. We further examined whether mindfulness would be especially beneficial for people with autistic or...
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine
January 2, 2017
Dana Dharmakaya Colgan, Helané Wahbeh, Mollie Pleet et al.
This qualitative study explored and compared the subjective experiences of 102 veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 arms: ( a) body scan, ( b) mindful breathing, ( c) slow breathing, or ( d) sitting quietly. Qualitative data were obtained via semistructured interviews following the intervention and analyzed using conventional content analysis....
Journal of Neuroscience Research
January 2, 2017
Tracey J. Shors, Emma M. Millon, Han Yan M Chang et al.
It is generally accepted that women tend to ruminate more than men do and these thought patterns are often associated with depressive symptoms (Nolen-Hoeksema et al., ). Based on these findings, we considered whether the relationship between rumination and depression is stronger in women than in men and if so, whether this might explain the higher prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD)...
2017
N. Jadhav, R. Manthalkar, Y. Joshi
In this paper, the effect of meditation on the seven load arithmetic tasks using Electroencephalogram (EEG) is investigated. The focused attention on breathing is taught to 11 healthy subjects as a simple meditation technique. EEG signals have been recorded at the beginning of meditation and after four weeks of regular meditation (daily 20 minutes) using EMOTIV device. The higher order...
International Journal of Yoga
2017
Vasant Venkatraman Shastri, Alex Hankey, Bhawna Sharma et al.
Competitive examinations, particularly in mathematics, have made emotional stress a major problem for preuniversity students, emotions like aggression toward fellow students and teachers increase. Mindfulness is a quality that reduces both emotional stress and aggression, so increasing mindfulness should be helpful. To study the effects of Yoga Pranayama (YP) and Vedic Mathematics (VM) on...