Health Promotion Journal of Australia
April 2019
Elizabeth Vella, Shane Mciver
Identifying ways to manage the psychological and emotional costs of workplace stress is essential. Mindfulness meditation is reported to support mental well-being; however, findings are limited in Australian business settings. Accordingly, this study explored the efficacy of a mindfulness meditation program tailored for an Australian public-sector workplace. A mixed-methods, single-group,...
Multiple Sclerosis Journal
April 2019
Cesare Cavalera, Marco Rovaris, Laura Mendozzi et al.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) has a relevant impact on quality of life (QOL) and is associated with increased risks of psychological morbidity. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are among the most studied interventions, although few well-conducted studies have tested them in this field. Furthermore, the participation in typical MBIs may be impaired by time and logistics. We aimed to test the...
Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing
April 1, 2019
Srisuda Ngamkham, Janean E Holden, Ellen Lavoie Smith
Moderate-to-severe pain is a common problem experienced by patients with cancer. Although analgesic drugs are effective, adverse side effects are common and some analgesic drugs are addictive. Nonpharmacological treatment may be a way to treat cancer pain without causing negative side effects. Mindfulness is used as an effective nonpharmacological treatment to improve quality of life (QoL) and...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
April 1, 2019
Pei-Chen Lo, Bo-Ting Lyu, Wu Jue Miao Tian
Background: This research aims to develop new methods to investigate the cardiorespiratory interaction of Zen-meditation practitioners (Zen-meditation group) and healthy ordinary young people (control group) by quantitatively evaluating respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) behavior. Methods: Twenty-five voluntary controls and seven Zen-meditation practitioners were recruited. The experimental...
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
April 1, 2019
L. Lyzwinski, L. Caffery, M. Bambling et al.
Background University students are at risk of weight gain during their studies. Key factors related to weight gain in this population include unhealthy weight-related behaviors because of stress. Mindfulness holds promise for weight management. However, there has not been any previous trial that has explored the effectiveness of a student-tailored mindfulness app for stress, weight-related...
Psychosomatic Medicine
April 1, 2019
J. D. Creswell, Emily K. Lindsay, Daniella K. Villalba et al.
Objective There has been substantial research and public interest in mindfulness interventions, biological pathways, and health for the past two decades. This article reviews recent developments in understanding relationships between mindfulness interventions and physical health. Methods A selective review was conducted with the goal of synthesizing conceptual and empirical relationships...
International Archives of Health Sciences
April 1, 2019
Marjan Faraji, Siavash Talepasand, Isaac Rahimian Boogar
Aims: Bullying is an ever-increasing phenomenon in schools and it has far-reaching consequences on children and adolescents, for which necessary measures must be taken to prevent and reduce it. This study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for child (MBCT-C) on bullying behavior among children. Materials and Methods: the population of this study...
The FASEB Journal
April 1, 2019
George P Einstein, Michael S Rahman, Carla M Konyk et al.
Evidence in the last few decades have supported claim that meditation can reduce stress and promote health; the effects of which are on physical and mental health, and cognitive performance. There is more evidence about the specific parts of the brain involved in producing these positive influences. The neuronal pathways are not fully understood; the model of chronic pain however may provide...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
April 1, 2019
Claudia Wang, Kaigang Li, Susan A Gaylord
The purpose of the study is to examine the characteristics of various types of meditation use (i.e., mantra, mindful, and spiritual meditation) among U.S. children. Using 2017 National Health Interview Survey, we examined the prevalence, patterns, and potential predictors of meditation use among U.S. children aged 4 to 17 years. Descriptive statistics, Wald F chi-square test, and multivariable...
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
April 1, 2019
Ceri Bowen
Mindfulness approaches to promoting resilience and mental fitness within the UK Armed Forces have very recently emerged against a backdrop of studies from abroad, leading to a plethora of initiatives. These studies have used biological and cognitive markers of sustained attention and the human stress response, before and after training, in the period prior to deployment and made assertions of...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
March 31, 2019
Ariel J Lang, Anne Malaktaris, Pollyanna Casmar et al.
50 citations
There is considerable interest in developing complementary and integrative approaches for ameliorating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Compassion meditation (CM) and loving-kindness meditation appear to offer benefits to individuals with PTSD, including symptom reduction. The present study was a pilot randomized controlled trial of CM for PTSD in veterans. The CM condition, an adaptation...
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
March 30, 2019
Dusti R Jones, Barbara J. Lehman, Alysia Noriega et al.
Background and objectives: Mindfulness meditation (MM) training promotes health and well-being. One potential mechanistic link between MM and health may be coping flexibility, (e.g., the ability to monitor and modify coping strategies based on situational needs and strategy effectiveness). We hypothesized that MM training would increase coping flexibility and also explored whether gains in...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter considers the early, community-oriented wing of New Thought movement and the Mindfulness movement side by side and identifies several characteristics they have in common, as well as significant differences between them. The Mindfulness movement is similar in various ways to Individualist New Thought. This analysis reveals some of the problems and limitations inherent in the...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter considers whether Mindfulness can reasonably be considered a kind of religion, despite proponents’ claims to the contrary. If so, what kind? Is it Buddhist? If so, what kind of Buddhism? The rhetoric of Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the modern Mindfulness movement, is tested against several different theories of religion, as well as critiques by specialists in both Theravāda and...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter asks whether mindfulness is as broadly effective and powerful as proponents claim and considers methodological and other critiques of clinical research on mindfulness. Neuroscientists have produced vivid images of meditators’ brains, using functional MRI and PET scans, which seem to show clear, positive changes attributed to meditation. Such images are effective rhetorically but...
Religions
March 28, 2019
C. Miller
3 citations
This article proposes an introductory course to Jainism vis-à-vis the categories of yoga and ecology. Following a short introduction, the main section of this paper introduces the contents of the syllabus for this upper division undergraduate theological studies course. Students will learn not only the history and philosophy of Jainism, but will also undertake basic Jain contemplative...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter examines the practices of Buddhist meditation and Raja yoga in New Thought. Leaders of New Thought were first exposed to Buddhism and Vedanta philosophy through the publications of European Orientalists and the Theosophical Society and, later, though personal contacts with Asian Buddhist and Hindu missionaries. In addition to D. T. Suzuki, who helped to spark American interest in...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
March 26, 2019
Seoyeon Kwak, Tae Young Lee, W. Jung et al.
While recent studies have explored the maintenance of the effect of meditation on stress resilience, the underlying neural mechanisms have not yet been investigated. The present study conducted a highly controlled residential study of a 4-day meditation intervention to investigate the brain functional changes and long-term effects of meditation on mindfulness and resilience. Thirty participants...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 26, 2019
Patrick Jones
35 citations
With the emergence of the science of heroism there now exists both theoretical and empirical literature on the characteristics of our everyday hero. We seek to expand this inquiry and ask what could be the causes and conditions of a superhero. To address this we investigate the origins of mindfulness, Buddhist psychology and the assertion that its practitioners who have attained expertise in...
Journal of Health Research
March 25, 2019
Pantip Sangprasert, Srimuang Palangrit, Natima Tiyoa et al.
12 citations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of mindfulness practice on health behaviors and quality of life (QOL) among hypertensive patients. Design/methodology/approach A quasi-experimental research was designed by before, after and a follow-up phase (i.e. on the 0th, 6th and 12th weeks). Two primary health care units (PCU) were selected as control and experiment groups....