Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
May 2020
Tobias Esch
Mind-body medicine (MBM) is based on the assumption that interactions between the brain, mind, body, and behavior can be used to activate health-promoting pathways towards better health. It includes behavioral medical approaches and techniques in conjunction with exercise, relaxation, stress regulation, and nutrition. MBM and MBM interventions are well-established in the US healthcare system....
Personality disorders
May 1, 2020
R. Zeifman, Tali Boritz, R. Barnhart et al.
Despite research supporting the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder (BPD), few studies have examined how DBT leads to clinical change. DBT is theorized to lead to improved clinical outcomes by enhancing the capacity for emotion regulation, including improvement in skills (e.g., mindfulness and distress tolerance) for managing emotional...
Deutsche Heilpraktiker-Zeitschrift
May 1, 2020
Karin Krudup, Sylke Känner
SummaryAchtsamkeitstraining kann zur Stressbewältigung erfahrungsgemäß sehr hilfreich sein – auch die Forschung bestätigt immer mehr Zusammenhänge.
International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
May 1, 2020
Zulkiflu Argungu Musa, Soh Kim Lam, Firdaus Binti Mamat @ Mukhtar et al.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was developed to prevent relapse in people with depressive disorders, and it help individuals better understand and manage their thoughts and emotions in order to achieve relief from feelings. Objective: The objective of this paper is to review and evaluate the effectiveness of MBCT on the management of depression. Method: To find appropriate studies,...
Mindfulness
May 1, 2020
Zarah Rowland, Mario Wenzel
Abstract Objectives Mindfulness has been positively associated with affective well-being, which may be explained by improved affective disengagement from prior experiences. Methods We used a dynamic network approach to represent temporal interconnections between specific affective states (i.e., network density)—with less interconnected states indicating better affective disengagement—to...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
May 1, 2020
Kazuki Yoshida, Kenta Takeda, Tetsuko Kasai et al.
Focused attention meditation (FAM) is a basic meditation practice that cultivates attentional control and monitoring skills. Cross-sectional studies have highlighted high cognitive performance and discriminative neural activity in experienced meditators. However, a direct relationship between neural activity changes and improvement of attention caused by meditation training remains to be...
Mindfulness
May 1, 2020
Adam W. Hanley, Michael Dambrun, Eric L Garland
66 citations
Mindfulness training is believed to encourage self-transcendent states, but little research has examined this hypothesis. This study examined the effects of mindfulness training on two phenomenological features of self-transcendence: 1) perceived body boundary dissolution, and 2) more allocentric spatial frames of reference. A sample of healthy, young adults (n=45) were randomized to five...
International Journal of Social Welfare Promotion and Management
April 30, 2020
Se-La Lim, Heejun Lee
This study explored correlation of People of S city’s for chakra meditation experience motivation, and Anxiety to confirm mediation model and path of physical and emotional and social state perception. To this end, data was collected from 223 survey results conducted by 250. The survey consisted of, the Chakra Meditation Experience Motivation scale, the Mental Health (SCL90-R) Questionnaire for...
Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange
April 30, 2020
Hee-sook Kwon, Mee-sook Cheong
High job-stress is more than 2 times likely to cause depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. More 70% of professional managers responded that they felt stressed in their workplaces for the past 10 years. This study investigates the effects of mantra meditation on self-compassion and stress of office workers. The subjects of this study were 20 head managers of apartments in K city. The purpose...
Psychotherapy
April 30, 2020
Simon B. Goldberg, Adam W. Hanley, Scott A. Baldwin et al.
22 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions are commonly used to reduce psychological symptoms and enhance positive qualities of human functioning. However, the influence of mindfulness practice dosage remains poorly understood, limiting dissemination and implementation efforts. The current study examined the association between practice dosage and several constructs related to psychological functioning...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 29, 2020
Lena Wimmer, Silja Bellingrath, Lisa Von Stockhausen
The present study examined the effects of mindfulness training on attention regulation in university students and whether the potential benefits of implementation are influenced by the yoga component of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and/or by MBI homework practice. In a non-randomized trial with pre- and post-assessments, n = 180 university students were allocated to either mindfulness...
Journal of Attention Disorders
April 26, 2020
Pietro Muratori, Ciro Conversano, Valentina Levantini et al.
Objective: This study was the first attempt to explore the efficacy of a mindfulness protocol for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and their parents. Method: Fifty male children with ADHD and ODD diagnosis, aged 8 to 12, were randomly assigned to the mindfulness intervention (n = 25) or the wait-list (n = 25) group. Outcome...
Advanced Biomedicine
April 25, 2020
Wu Xiafen, Huang Guohua, Wang Chunli et al.
Objective: We attempt to explore the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on unhealthy emotion and sleep quality of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients. Methods: we enrolled 92 patients who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients in the Hematology Department of our hospital from February 2017 to August 2019 and averagely divided them into control...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
April 24, 2020
Janae Sholtz
This article explores the ethical imperative to dramatise in the work of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, two of the most radical thinkers in twentieth-century philosophy, as a peculiar kind of askesis. Whereas askesis is often associated with asceticism or self-denial, in the sense of self-regulation and abstention, Bataille and Deleuze advocate training the self towards intensification of...
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
April 24, 2020
Caroline Stockman
Mobile and wearable technology now offers new avenues for technology-supported meditation practice and learning. Through a qualitative-dominant con-vergent parallel design, this study explored new empirical findings on the human perception of such technology-guided meditation training. A purposive sample of six participants trialled the device in several sessions during three weeks. Post-use,...
Brain and Behavior
April 23, 2020
Masoomeh Zarenejad, Mansooreh Yazdkhasti, Mitra Rahimzadeh et al.
Abstract Objective The aim of the study was to assess the effect of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) on anxiety and self‐efficacy in coping with childbirth. Material and Methods This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 70 pregnant women in Abyek city of Qazvin province in Iran. The convenient sampling method was recruited. Samples were assigned to control and intervention...
Advances in Psychological Science
April 22, 2020
Guomin Jin, Dan Li
: Loving-kindness and compassion meditation is a type of meditation practice that aims to cultivate the unconditional kindness and compassion for oneself and others. Specifically, interventions related to such meditation practice mainly include Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) and Compassion Meditation (CM). A large number of studies have demonstrated that LKM and CM can promote practitioners’...
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings
April 21, 2020
Meditative and contemplative practices are common among U.S. adults, but the impact of digital technology use on these practices and on associated transcendent experiences is poorly understood. Through semi-structured interviews with sixteen experienced practitioners from a variety of traditions, we find that practitioners consider digital technology to be a mixed blessing. While they see its...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
April 20, 2020
Paul Lavadera, Emma M. Millon, Tracey J. Shors
Medical students must commit a great deal of concentration and energy during their first 2 years of study, leaving minimal time for self-care. However, once they become physicians, they are in the position of instructing their patients to engage in self-care. Objectives: In this study, first- and second-year medical students participated in a combined mental and physical (MAP) training program...
European Journal of Pain
April 20, 2020
Jelle Zorn, Oussama Abdoun, Romain Bouet et al.
55 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness meditation can alleviate acute and chronic pain. It has been proposed that mindfulness meditation reduces pain by uncoupling sensory and affective pain dimensions. However, studies to date have reported mixed results, possibly due to a diversity of styles of and expertise in mindfulness meditation. Furthermore, the interrelations between mindfulness meditation and pain...