Journal of Religion and Health
June 2018
Denis Larrivee, Luis Echarte
Numerous studies show that personal spirituality developed through prayer positively influences mental health. Phenomenological and neuroscientific studies of mindfulness, an Eastern meditative prayer form, reveal significant health benefits now yielding important insights useful for guiding treatment of psychological disorders. By contrast, and despite its practice for millennia, Christian...
Psychiatria Danubina
June 1, 2018
Jiao Yang, Siyuan Tang, Wenchao Zhou
BACKGROUND Psychiatric nurses are a special group of nursing staff, they experience greater work stress and lower mental health levels than regular nurses. In order to address this problem, the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) therapy on work stress and mental health of psychiatric nurses is investigated in this study. SUBJECTS AND METHODS From August 2017 to November 2017,...
Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
June 1, 2018
Bhavna P. Harne, Anil S. Hiwale
Mantra meditation is easy to practice. "OM" Mantra is the highest sacred symbol in Hinduism. The present study investigated the temporal dynamics of oscillatory changes after OM mantra meditation. Twenty-three naive meditators were asked to perform loud OM chanting for 30 min and the EEG were subsequently recorded with closed eyes before and after it. To obtain new insights into the nature of...
Social Neuroscience
June 1, 2018
Mei-Kei Leung, Way K W Lau, Chetwyn C H Chan et al.
Recent evidence suggests that the effects of meditation practice on affective processing and resilience have the potential to induce neuroplastic changes within the amygdala. Notably, literature speculates that meditation training may reduce amygdala activity during negative affective processing. Nonetheless, studies have thus far not verified this speculation. In this longitudinal study,...
Mindfulness
June 1, 2018
Christina M. Luberto, Nina Shinday, Rhayun Song et al.
Increased attention has focused on methods to increase empathy, compassion, and pro-social behavior. Meditation practices have traditionally been used to cultivate pro-social outcomes, and recently investigations have sought to evaluate their efficacy for these outcomes. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of meditation for pro-social emotions and behavior. A literature search...
Brain and Cognition
June 1, 2018
Michelle C. Mahone, F. Travis, R. Gevirtz et al.
&NA; This study used a within group design to investigate blood flow patterns (fMRI) in 16 long‐term practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (mean practice: 34.3 years with each having over 36,000 h of meditation practice). During Transcendental Meditation practice, blood flow patterns were significantly higher in executive and attention areas (anterior cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal...
Nurse Education Today
June 1, 2018
P. van der Riet, T. Levett-Jones, Catherine Aquino-Russell
BACKGROUND A growing body of literature has identified a range of beneficial physiological and psychological outcomes from the regular practice of mindfulness meditation. For healthcare professionals, mindfulness meditation is claimed to reduce stress, anxiety and burnout, and enhance resilience. OBJECTIVE The objective of this integrative review was to critically appraise the literature that...
Journal of school psychology
June 1, 2018
Yoona Kang, Hadley Rahrig, Kristina Eichel et al.
143 citations
Mindfulness training has been used to improve emotional wellbeing in early adolescents. However, little is known about treatment outcome moderators, or individual differences that may differentially impact responses to treatment. The current study focused on gender as a potential moderator for affective outcomes in response to school-based mindfulness training. Sixth grade students (N = 100)...
European Scientific Journal ESJ
May 31, 2018
T. Jones
This review seeks to bridge the gap between the separate but interacting mechanisms of emotion regulation and cognition, as well as their potential relationship with mindfulness meditation tools. By way of mindfulness meditation, individuals can learn how to regulate their emotions in a way that aversive stimuli will be viewed objectively; thus, the person can be free of attachment from said...
Crisis
May 31, 2018
Megan S Chesin, Beth S. Brodsky, Brandon Beeler et al.
19 citations
BACKGROUND: Few investigations of patient perceptions of suicide prevention interventions exist, limiting our understanding of the processes and components of treatment that may be engaging and effective for high suicide-risk patients. AIMS: Building on promising quantitative data that showed that adjunct mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to prevent suicidal behavior (MBCT-S) reduced suicidal...
Mindfulness
May 31, 2018
Felipe A Jain, P. Fonagy
Facilitating mentalization, or the ability to understand mental states and their link to behavior, is increasingly viewed as a common mechanism of action across effective psychotherapies. Here, we present an overview of a new set of contemplative psychotherapeutic techniques, mentalizing imagery therapy (MIT), which uses guided imagery and mindfulness practices to facilitate mentalization. MIT...
National Journal of Research in Ayurved Science
May 30, 2018
Sujata Paikaray, A. Kar, N. Nathani
Our body requires oxygen for its activities and the oxygen is supplied to our body through the respiratory system. It is important to increase the efficiency of respiratory system to increase the sustainable supply of oxygen to the body. Preksha Meditation is a procedure by which one can know and observe the main characteristics of consciousness. Covered consciousness looses its capacity to...
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
May 30, 2018
Tom Hendriks
Abstract Objectives To determine the efficacy of Sahaja Yoga (SY) meditation on mental health among clinical and healthy populations. Methods All publications on SY were eligible. Databases were searched up to November 2017, namely PubMed, MEDLINE (NLM), PsychINFO, and Scopus. An internet search (Google Scholar) was also conducted. The quality of the randomized controlled trails was assessed...
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
May 30, 2018
Amy R Borchardt, Peggy M Zoccola
Identifying strategies that aid in recovery from stress may benefit cardiovascular health. Ninety-nine undergraduate meditation novices were randomly assigned to meditate, listen to an audio book, or sit quietly after a standardized stressor. During recovery, meditators' heart rate variability and skin conductance levels returned to baseline, whereas only heart rate variability returned to...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 30, 2018
Bee Scherer, Jeff Waistell
2 citations
This critical comparison of Morgan’s ‘Images of Organization’ and Hanh’s ‘Work’ considers whether Hanh offers new insights and metaphors. Morgan’s legacy resides not in his images but in showing that the dynamism of organisational theorising requires the generation of new metaphors. His images transfer onto Hanh’s psychology but largely mediate different messages. This study extends Morgan’s...
Journal of Clinical Medicine
May 29, 2018
Meghan K. Edwards, Paul D Loprinzi
Single bouts of aerobic exercise and meditation have been shown to improve cognitive function. Yet to be examined in the literature, we sought to examine the effects of a combination of acute bouts of aerobic exercise and meditation on cognitive function among young adults. Participants (n = 66, mean (SD) age = 21 (2)) were randomly assigned to walk then meditate, meditate then walk, or to sit...
Frontiers in Physiology
May 29, 2018
Rohisha Tuladhar, Gyanendra Bohara, Paolo Grigolini et al.
In this paper we emphasize that 1/f noise has two different origins, one compatible with Laplace determinism and one determined by unpredictable crucial events. The dynamics of heartbeats, manifest as heart rate variability (HRV) time series, are determined by the joint action of these different memory sources with meditation turning the Laplace memory into a strongly coherent process while...
PÓS Revista do Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da EBA/UFMG
May 27, 2018
Dorys Faria Calvert
This article provides a brief dialogue between the practice of mindfulness and the actor’s training from some neuroscientific evidences that prove the psychophysical benefits associated to the development of the attention capacity. Initially, the text makes a paradigmatic analysis in which the meditative practice serves as an example for the questioning regarding the importance of attention for...
PÓS Revista do Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da EBA/UFMG
May 27, 2018
Deborah Middleton, Ludmilla Reis Rolim
In this paper, I report on the University of Huddersfield's Mindfulness and Performance Project (MAP), outlining the field of practice that the project was designed to profile, and exploring some of the implications of what we might call 'mindfulness-based performance'. Framing this work within the context of the growing literature on clinical and therapeutic 'mindfulness-based interventions' I...
BMC Psychiatry
May 25, 2018
Marcelo Trombka, Marcelo Demarzo, Daniel Campos Bacas et al.
Background: Police officers experience a high degree of chronic stress. Policing ranks among the highest professions in terms of disease and accident rates. Mental health is particularly impacted, evidenced by elevated rates of burnout, anxiety and depression, and poorer quality of life than the general public. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, burnout and promote...