Buddhist Studies Review
December 31, 2018
Rupert Gethin
1 citation
Over the last fifty years the study of mysticism has been shaped by the debate between ‘perennialists’, who claim that mystical experiences are the same across different cultures, and ‘constructivists’, who claim that mystical experiences are shaped by, and hence specific to, particular religious traditions. The constructivist view is associated with the ‘discursive turn’ that has dominated the...
Turkish Journal of Kinesiology
December 30, 2018
Seyed Mohammad Zadkhosh, Hassan Gharayagh Zandi̇, Rasool Hemayattalab
Nowadays, in athletic world exercise and physical practice are not only tools to achieve peak performance. In high level of athletic activities there are not so differences based on skilfulness and psychological differences determinant winner or loser. Athletes have to compete in anxiety situations and in reaction to these situations are experiencing excitement. Mindfulness and Neurofeedback...
The Journal of Psychology
December 28, 2018
Susan Sorensen, Stanley R. Steindl, Genevieve A. Dingle et al.
30 citations
Loving-kindness meditation (LKM), a meditative practice directing caring feelings toward self and others, is a popular, evidence-base approach to increasing well-being. Music listening is also a popular form of emotion regulation used to enhance well-being. This interdisciplinary study evaluated a novel intervention called Convergence-combining LKM with accompanying classical guitar music-and...
Trials
December 27, 2018
Christiane Baldus, Laura Mokros, Anne Daubmann et al.
Background: Current treatments for adolescents with substance use disorder (SUD) have had only limited success. In recent years, research has underlined the role of self-regulatory processes and impulsivity in the development and maintenance of SUD in adolescents. Mindfulness has gained much attention due to its capacity to influence self-regulatory processes, particularly in adult populations....
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
December 23, 2018
Gretchen R Blycker, Marc N Potenza
Background and aims: Mindfulness-based approaches, derived from centuries of eastern philosophy and practice, have been increasingly incorporated into western medicine. For example, data support the efficacy of mindfulness-based therapies to reduce stress and promote mental health. Methods: In this study, we briefly review models and approaches to sexual health in the context of considering...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
December 23, 2018
Andrew J Hede
Background: Meditation has developed over many centuries within a diverse range of religious traditions including Middle-Eastern, Indian, and East-Asian. Of these, mindfulness meditation from the Buddhist (Indian) tradition, has been the most extensively adopted in the Western secular world primarily with applications in health and well-being as pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Review: While...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
December 21, 2018
Heather L. Rusch, Michael Del Rosario, Lisa M. Levison et al.
496 citations
There is a growing interest in the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for sleep disturbed populations. Our study sought to evaluate the effect of mindfulness meditation interventions on sleep quality. To assess for relative efficacy, comparator groups were restricted to specific active controls (such as evidenced-based sleep treatments) and nonspecific active controls (such as...
Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology
December 20, 2018
Pratap Sanchetee, Samani Shreyas Pragya
8 citations
Aims: The present study aims at demonstrating changes in alpha wave frequency on electroencephalograph (EEG) at two and four months of preksha meditation training in young novice students. Materials and Methods: Participants included 52 girls between the 17 to 21 years of age from a local college selected using a convenience sampling technique. They were randomly divided into experimental (n =...
Nursing Open
December 18, 2018
Jing Li, Hong Luo, Ling Long
Aim: To explore what the women experience during their first IVF-ET treatment while participating a mindfulness-based intervention for IVF-ET (MBII), and how they use it to enhance their infertility-related quality of life (QoL). Design: Qualitative exploratory design. Methods: As part of a larger multimethod study, this study shares the description from 38 IVF-ET women. We conducted...
Neural Plasticity
December 18, 2018
Anna Lardone, Marianna Liparoti, Pierpaolo Sorrentino et al.
72 citations
It has been suggested that the practice of meditation is associated to neuroplasticity phenomena, reducing age-related brain degeneration and improving cognitive functions. Neuroimaging studies have shown that the brain connectivity changes in meditators. In the present work, we aim to describe the possible long-term effects of meditation on the brain networks. To this aim, we used...
Journal of Women's Health
December 13, 2018
Dawn M Upchurch, Pamela Jo Johnson
Introduction: Meditation is a common type of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and the evidence for its usefulness for health promotion is growing. Women have higher rates of overall CAM use than men do, but little is known about gender differences in meditation practices, reasons for use, or perceived benefits. Methods: Data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)...
Current Opinion in Psychology
December 13, 2018
Yoona Kang
Distinct types of meditation practice addressed in this review can help cultivate skills people may bring to later social interactions. We examine self-transcendence, or the drive to benefit others beyond the self, as a key mechanism through which meditation may promote positive social outcomes. Self-transcendence cultivated through various styles of meditation can impact social outcomes...
Frontiers in Psychology
December 12, 2018
Brigid Foster, Justine Lomas, Luke A. Downey et al.
High anxiety and depression are often observed in the Australian adolescent population, and if left untreated, can have long-term negative consequences impacting educational attainment and a range of important life outcomes. The utilization of mindfulness techniques has been associated with decreased anxiety and depression, but the underlying mechanisms for this is only beginning to be...
PLoS One
December 12, 2018
Matthew J. Hirshberg, Simon B. Goldberg, S. Schaefer et al.
33 citations
Mindfulness practices are increasingly being utilized as a method for cultivating well-being. The term mindfulness is often used as an umbrella for a variety of different practices and many mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) contain multiple styles of practice. Despite the diversity of practices within MBIs, few studies have investigated whether constituent practices produce specific...
Frontiers in Psychology
December 11, 2018
Thomas Anderson, Norman A. S. Farb
Many people are starting to establish contemplative practices and Mindfulness-Based Interventions have become quite popular. While Mindfulness-Based Interventions positively impact well-being, drop-out and lack of practice-maintenance plagues these interventions. Such adherence issues may reveal a lack of fit between participant partiality for attentional anchors of meditative practice and the...
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
December 11, 2018
Joseph Wielgosz, Simon B. Goldberg, Tammi R. A. Kral et al.
441 citations
Mindfulness meditation is increasingly incorporated into mental health interventions, and theoretical concepts associated with it have influenced basic research on psychopathology. Here, we review the current understanding of mindfulness meditation through the lens of clinical neuroscience, outlining the core capacities targeted by mindfulness meditation and mapping them onto cognitive and...
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
December 9, 2018
R. Prakash, S. Fountain-Zaragoza, A. Kramer et al.
This review examines longitudinal studies of changes in components of attention following mindfulness training. A total of 57 retreat studies, non-randomized trials, and randomized controlled trials were identified. Employing the classical taxonomy proposed by Posner and Petersen (Annual Review of Neuroscience, 13(1), 25–42, 1990), outcome measures were broadly categorized based on whether they...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
December 9, 2018
S. Saravanan, S. Govindarajan
Internet, e-mail and other social networks like Myspace, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn are the indispensable components in today's world. These social networking makes the human to addict into the digital world. Digital world has become the integral part of our society. Addiction to the digital world slowly develops the negative symptoms in the area of physical, physiological, emotional and...
arXiv Preprint Archive
December 7, 2018
Liane Gabora, Mike Unrau
preprint
As both our external world and inner worlds become more complex, we are faced with more novel challenges, hardships, and duress. Creative thinking is needed to provide fresh perspectives and solve new problems.Because creativity can be conducive to accessing and reliving traumatic memories, emotional scars may be exacerbated by creative practices before these are transformed and released....
Acta bio-medica
December 7, 2018
Alejandro Camacho Alpuente, Francisca Anaya Cintas, Chiara Foà et al.
7 citations
BACKGROUND: Thousands of caregivers around the world take care of impaired people, with negative repercussions on their physical, psychological, social and economic resources. The need to promote caregivers' wellbeing is internationally recognized, thus reducing health inequalities. Mindfulness is a powerful tool, directly related to the reduction of stress, able to increase skills and...