INSIGHT: Jurnal Bimbingan Konseling
December 31, 2020
Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat stres remaja dan kebutuhan untuk mengembangkan video tutorial mindfulness-breathing meditation sebagai strategi dalam mengurangi stres remaja. Convenience sampling yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data pada 165 peserta didik. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah perceived stress scale (PSS) dan studi kebutuhan video mindfulness-breathing...
Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal
December 31, 2020
Raychel Colangelo, Karyn Audet
Premised on cultivating present-moment awareness, mindfulness meditation (MM) programs have been shown to significantly reduce state-anxiety and improve cognitive performance in post-secondary students. With increasing popularity, briefer MM formats have been introduced to post-secondary institutions to combat the rising prevalence of student test-anxiety. However, research examining the...
December 31, 2020
Bryce Huebner
In this extended review, I provide a brief overview of Rick Repetti's arguments in Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom. I then propose that South Asian Buddhist philosophy should be seen as providing an alternative way of thinking about questions regarding freedom and agency. More specifically, I ague that there isn’t anything that a Buddhist must say about free...
Preprints.org
December 29, 2020
Carrie Heeter, Marcel Allbritton, Rebecca H Lehto et al.
preprint
Abstract: 1) Background. This research examined feasibility, acceptability and outcomes of delivering a 6-week yoga-based meditation intervention to clinical teams of hospice professionals (HPs) at a large non-profit hospice organization. The intervention was designed to increase mind-body integration and combat burnout. The manuscript was written for different audiences including research...
Elderly Health Journal
December 29, 2020
Peyman Hatamian, Seyed Kazem Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei
Introduction: This study aims to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and meta-cognitive therapy based on training on emotion regulation and anxiety sensitivity in elderly with precedent heart disease in Tehran city. Methods: This was an experimental study with pre-test & post-test and statistical population consisted of all elderly with precedent heart disease...
Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences
December 28, 2020
Adrian-Neculai Lăcătuș
Throughout the historical ages, man has sought to approach the Divinity in various ways: through fasting, prayer, meditation, etc. The states of asceticism reached by the Holy Fathers have remained a testimony and persist over the centuries. Not only in Christianity have such states been obtained, but in almost all religious traditions. Nowadays, man has not given up his relationship with God...
PLoS One
December 28, 2020
Sergio Hernández, Roberto Dorta‐Guerra, José Suero et al.
23 citations
OBJECTIVES: Our previous study showed that long-term practitioners of Sahaja Yoga Meditation (SYM) had around 7% larger grey matter volume (GMV) in the whole brain compared with healthy controls; however, when testing individual regions, only 5 small brain areas were statistically different between groups. Under the hypothesis that those results were statistically conservative, with the same...
Journal of Affective Disorders
December 27, 2020
Sonal Mathur, M. Sharma, S. Balachander et al.
BACKGROUND Recently, mindfulness-based therapies have emerged as a treatment modality for OCD, but there is sparse controlled data. We report the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in treating OCD in comparison with stress management training (SMT). METHODS 60 outpatients with DSM-IV-TR OCD attending a specialty OCD clinic were randomly assigned in 1:1 ratio to either MBCT...
Appetite
December 26, 2020
Ti Hsu, Catherine A Forestell
Emotional eating is defined as the tendency to increase food consumption in order to modify negative emotional states. Theories on emotional eating attribute its cause to inadequate emotion regulation, specifically an inability to draw awareness to and accept distress. Mindfulness, or the ability to pay attention to and accept internal and external experiences, is thought to attenuate the...
International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology
December 25, 2020
M. Krishnamurthy
In this work we study the mantra and Vedic chants used for meditation and convert them to time series with the frequency of 44100 Hertz. We then perform the mathematical and statistical analysis of these chants and compare these results with few of the popular known songs in Hindi, Kannada and Spanish/English. We also consider the Tirumala temple bell sound for our analysis and study. We...
Global Advances in Health and Medicine
December 23, 2020
Dawson Church, Peta Stapleton, Debbie Sabot
Background: A growing body of clinical research attests to the psychological and physiological benefits of meditation. EcoMeditation is a non-pharmacological therapeutic approach used to promote health and well-being, comprising four evidence-based techniques: The Quick Coherence Technique for regulating heart rate variability (HRV), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), mindfulness, and...
Frontiers in Psychology
December 22, 2020
Bruno Cayoun, Alice Shires
35 citations
Interoception, the ability to feel the body's internal sensations, is an essential aspect of emotional experience. There is mounting evidence that interoception is impaired in common mental health disorders and that poor interoceptive awareness is a major contributor to emotional reactivity, calling for clinical interventions to address this deficit. The manuscript presents a comprehensive...
Sensors
December 21, 2020
Zohreh Gholami Doborjeh, Maryam Gholami Doborjeh, Mark Crook‐Rumsey et al.
27 citations
Mindfulness training is associated with improvements in psychological wellbeing and cognition, yet the specific underlying neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these changes are uncertain. This study uses a novel brain-inspired artificial neural network to investigate the effect of mindfulness training on electroencephalographic function. Participants completed a 4-tone auditory oddball...
Psikodimensia: Kajian Ilmiah Psikologi
December 21, 2020
Treshinta Putri Dhamayanti, Ananta Yudiarso
The aims of this study was to analyzed and reviewed the literatures about effectiveness mindfulness therapy to reduce anxiety. The method was Reviewing fourteen literature (international journal) and using Meta-analysis method to analyzed effectiveness mindfulness therapy for reduce anxiety. The result revealed that fourteen journals showed that mindfulness therapy effective to reduce anxiety....
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
December 19, 2020
Tara Hickey, Barnaby Nelson, Joanne Enticott et al.
Background: The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the feasibility, acceptability and the potential clinical utility of a novel mindfulness and compassion program (MAC-P) designed for youth with a range of psychotic experiences. Method: A non-randomised, non-controlled prospective follow-up study was conducted. Eighteen participants who either met criteria for the 'at risk mental...
International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering Science & IT (iJES)
December 18, 2020
Athanasios Drigas, Eleni Mitsea
83 citations
Oxidative stress, mental and mood disorders, premature ageing, cognitive impairments, learning disabilities are just some of the emerging threats of the 21st century. The next generation of educators, students, business leaders, employees, therapists, and parents are required to adapt in the era of rapid change and climate change developing new skills as well as adopting daily sustainable...
Medicina
December 18, 2020
Frederick Travis
Three broad organizing strategies have been used to study meditation practices: (1) consider meditation practices as using similar processes and so combine neural images across a wide range of practices to identify the common underlying brain patterns of meditation practice, (2) consider meditation practices as unique and so investigate individual practices, or (3) consider meditation practices...
Innovation in Aging
December 16, 2020
Nirmala Lekhak, Tirth Bhatta
Abstract Contemplative practices such as meditation, yoga, and prayer had been used as coping resources to reduce the adverse impacts of stressful life experiences. Despite emerging scholarship on the benefits of contemplative practices for cognitive health, scant research has examined the influence of such practices on both episodic and working memory among women in later life. While the use...
Innovation in Aging
December 16, 2020
Leeann Mahlo, T. Windsor
Abstract Few studies have focused on the utility of mindfulness-meditation for well-being in older adults. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of an app-based mindfulness-meditation program for community-based older adults. A convenience sample of 46 participants aged between 63 and 81 (M = 70.85, SD = 4.70) was recruited from the community. Participants were...
2020 IEEE Pune Section International Conference
December 16, 2020
Laxmi Shaw, Aurobinda Routray
The prime objective of the study is to investigate the effect (effects in the sense of an increase in psychological well-being and decrease in stress & mood disturbances) of specific relaxation technique popularly named as Kriya Yoga (KY) meditation on long-term and short-term practitioners. For comparison, the EEG data for non-meditators or control group has also been recorded. To the best of...