Mindfulness
March 23, 2019
L. Janssen, Janneke Grutters, Melanie P. J. Schellekens et al.
ADHD has a considerable economic impact. The aim of this study is to conduct a trial-based economic evaluation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) added to treatment as usual (TAU) versus TAU in adults with ADHD. A Dutch economic evaluation with a time horizon of 9 months was conducted from the societal perspective in the intention-to-treat (ITT) sample. Costs were assessed with a...
ANIMA Indonesian Psychological Journal
March 21, 2019
Didon Permadi, Fivi Nurwianti
Competitive anxiety is one of the psychological factors which greatly affect athletes' performances. Competitive anxiety is divided into somatic anxiety and cognitive anxiety. This study was conducted to look at mindfulness and coping skills as predictors of competitive anxiety. Through purposive sampling techniques, some (N = 159) senior athletes, representatives of various sports from various...
International Clinical Neuroscience Journal
March 20, 2019
Shahin Fahiminia, Afshin Salahiyan, Mahtab Norouzi
Background: Cancer has many potential physical, psychological and social consequences for the patient. This single case study explored the efficiency of mindfulness therapy with the aid of virtual reality (VR) focusing on minimizing anxiety especially death anxiety in a patient with cerebellar cancer. Methods: In this case study research the patient met and consulted 3 times in the first week,...
Practical Theology
March 19, 2019
P. Mudge
ABSTRACT Breathing meditation (BM) in both Jewish and Christian contexts focuses on the breath as the vivifying Spirit, Holy Spirit or life force. A flourishing theology of the body must of necessity be an ‘embodied spirituality’, and ought to encompass a biblical and spiritual theology of the whole person. This article demonstrates the practicality of this BM technique by outlining possible...
Prescribing the Dharma
March 18, 2019
Ira Helderman
This chapter examines psychotherapists personalizing religion approaches to Buddhist teachings and practices. Here clinicians can be dramatically influenced by Buddhist teachings, but, intent on maintaining a clear differentiation between Buddhist and psychotherapeutic practice, are loath to “mix” the two. Deep believing Buddhist clinicians betray no sign of Buddhist influence in actual therapy...
Mindfulness
March 18, 2019
Luis Cásedas, Vincenzo Pirruccio, Miguel A Vadillo et al.
preprint
Objectives Over the last years, mindfulness meditation has been claimed to be effective in enhancing several cognitive domains, including executive control. However, these claims have been mostly based on findings pertaining to case-control and cross-sectional studies, which are by nature unable to reveal causal relationships. Aiming to address this issue, we set out to conduct the first...
March 14, 2019
Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen
Yoga, meditation, and asceticism have been intimately linked throughout Indian religious history since the early beginnings in the ascetic reformism of India’s “axial age.” Traditional yoga addresses the main concerns of the ascetic reformism and is a practical method to solve the problem of suffering and attain liberation from this world. It primarily refers to the practice of meditation as...
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation
March 14, 2019
Ayesha Nathoo
7 citations
Abstract This chapter elucidates the shared socio-cultural history of modern, therapeutic relaxation and meditation strategies. It demonstrates how the promulgation of relaxation therapies from the early twentieth century strongly influenced the later advancement of secularized, therapeutic meditation practices. It traces the development of scientifically grounded neuromuscular relaxation...
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
March 11, 2019
Paul Lattimore
Purpose: Emotional eating is important to study and address because it predicts poor outcome in weight loss interventions. Interventions have only touched the surface in terms of addressing emotional eating. Mindfulness approaches can address emotional eating by modification of emotion regulation and appetitive traits. The current study involved development of an emotional eating-specific...
Human Brain Mapping
March 9, 2019
Anthony P Zanesco, Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G King et al.
Meditation practice is believed to foster states of mindful awareness and mental quiescence in everyday life. If so, then the cultivation of these qualities with training ought to leave its imprint on the activity of intrinsic functional brain networks. In an intensive longitudinal study, we investigated associations between meditation practitioners' experiences of felt mindful awareness and...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 8, 2019
F. Parmentier, Mauro Garcia-Toro, Javier García-campayo et al.
The present study examined the effects of mindfulness on depression and anxiety, both direct and indirect through the mediation of four mechanisms of emotional regulation: worry, rumination, reappraisal and suppression. Path analysis was applied to data collected from an international and non-clinical sample of 1151 adults, including both meditators and non-meditators, who completed an online...
Circulation
March 5, 2019
Robert H Schneider, Kenneth G Walton, Otelio Randall et al.
Background: High stress level is thought to be a factor in the disproportionate rates of mortality from CHD and stroke in African Americans. Stress-related CVD risk factors such as hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, obesity, and high blood pressure tend to occur together, and their co-occurrence has been labeled the “insulin-resistance” or “metabolic” syndrome. The Transcendental Meditation (TM)...
Abstracts
March 1, 2019
Guangbo Chen, V. Saper, Gail H. Deutsch et al.
Career situation of first and presenting author Student for a master or a PhD. Introduction Previous research in healthy individuals showed that the innate immune response can be voluntarily modulated by a training program involving breathing exercises, exposure to cold and meditation1. It is unknown whether the same intervention could potentially lead to suppression of inflammation and whether...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
March 2019
Stephanie Louise, Susan L. Rossell, Neil Thomas
A prominent area of advancement in the psychological treatment for people with persisting psychosis has been the application of mindfulness-based therapies. Recent literature has recommended the investigation of focused mindfulness interventions for voices (auditory hallucinations) as a specific experience. To date, only mindfulness programs in group format have been examined. This...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
March 2019
Diane Ceravolo, Deborah A Raines
To examine the impact of a mindfulness intervention on nurse managers in an acute care hospital. A pre/post intervention design with three data collection points: prior to, at the conclusion of, and at 3 months following the intervention. A survey to measure the impact of a mindfulness workshops on nurse managers' perception of professional quality of life, burnout, and perceived wellness....
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
March 1, 2019
Maggie Compernolle
Topic Significance & Study Purpose/Background/Rationale Patients with hematological malignancies, particularly those with acute diagnoses requiring immediate treatment and hospitalization, often experience high levels of distress. Mindfulness has been shown to alleviate symptoms of distress in cancer patients, but there is limited research on the effects of mindfulness on distress in this...
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
March 1, 2019
Sophia Escobar
Introduction Approximately 10-20% of older adults treated in primary care settings suffer from symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. As our population ages, the number of older adults in primary care increases, and the urgent need to find cost-effective and efficient alternative therapies become crucial. The present RCT study aim was to investigate the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive...
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
March 1, 2019
Akshya Vasudev, Michael Lifshitz, S. B. Peckham et al.
Abstract Mindfulness and transcendental meditation techniques have emerging research supporting them as positive additions to treatment as usual/standard care for mood and/or cognitive disorders among older adults. This session will highlight this recent research and evidence of the benefits of these interventions in the context of late-life depression (LLD) and late-life anxiety (LLA). In the...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
March 1, 2019
Raj Anil Ambavane, Amin Khademi, Donglan Zhang et al.
Meditation has shown promise in clinical trials in reducing systolic blood pressure, one of the main risk factors for stroke. We aim to estimate the potential benefits of popularizing meditation on stroke incidence and mortality in the United States (U.S.). We developed a dynamic population-based microsimulation model to simulate the disease progression of each individual and compute disease...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
March 1, 2019
Andrew S. Mcclintock, Shannon M. McCarrick, E. Garland et al.
Objectives: Nonpharmacologic approaches have been characterized as the preferred means to treat chronic noncancer pain by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is evidence that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are effective for pain management, yet the typical MBI may not be feasible across many clinical settings due to resource and time constraints. Brief MBIs (BMBIs)...