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Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine 2021
Can the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change Explain the Intent for People to Practice Meditation?
Examining the Prospective Associations Between Mindfulness Facets and Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood.
International Journal of Physiology, Nutrition and Physical Education 2021 A. Amrutha, Dr. S Alagesan
Yoga is an effective complementary approach to health maintenance and promotion for College women and has been demonstrated to support many dimensions of psychological wellbeing, from everyday stress to anxiety, aggression, and coping with health challenges. The Purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effect of Alternate Nostril Breathing and Meditation practices on...
Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine 2021 Marco Bernini 3 citations
Abstract Booming Western interest in mindfulness and meditation has significantly mainstreamed breath and breathing practices, where focussed breathing is taken to be conducive to novel psychological states. Thanks to the regulation of breathing patterns, patterns in our thinking are not just affected but revealed, together with their entanglement with respiration (in a variety of looping...
2021 Paul L. Brackmann 1 citation
The impact that mindfulness can have on a person's wellbeing and empathy has been studied and well documented. The need for leaders to be emotionally intelligent and relationally focused has also been documented in the field of leadership studies. This narrative study interviewed eight organizational leaders who have an established mindful practice. The researcher explored the challenges and...
Being and becoming 2021 Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Vera Nenadovic
The philosophy of the Buddhist tradition resonates prominently with what we have seen about self-awareness in Part I and about the nature of life in Part II. It is also very much in line with our title. Being and becoming is the kernel of these Buddhist teachings. We will point out the similarities with the findings of science in the aspects that can help endure life and simplify our lives so...
Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 2021 Siti Nur Hasina, Iis Noventi, PH Livana et al.
BACKGROUND: The spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread throughout the world and has created a level of fear, uncertainty that has an impact on several aspects of life including mental health. The rapid spread of the Corona Virus or COVID-19 throughout the world has damaged the order of life starting from the economy, social, politics, education, culture, religion and health....
2021 Nikolay Kondratyev
Chronic pain is a significant problem that negatively affects quality of life resulting in distress, disability, and inappropriate prescription of analgesics. Primary care providers need evidence for non-pharmaceutical tools, such as mindfulness-based intervention, to manage the complexities of chronic pain. The purpose of this integrative literature review is to investigate the impact...
World journal of nuclear medicine 2021 Chanisa Chotipanich, Supatporn Tepmongkol, Yodchanan Wongsawat et al.
Anapanasati is a core meditation of a breath-centered practice in the Buddhist Theravada tradition, which may have some neurological mechanism effects on the brain. To gain insight into the neurological mechanisms involved in Anapanasati meditation, we measured the alterations of regional cerebral glucose metabolism during Anapanasati meditation using positron-emission tomography/computed...
Journal of Women Politics and Policy 2021
This article contributes to scholarship focused on the contemplative justice movement. The study analyzes the experiences of BIPOC activists engaged in contemplative practice through the Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program in Oakland, California. Utilizing a Black feminist power analysis, I interpret theories of social change and organizational affiliations among these activists to...
Perspectives on Psychological Science 2021 Tracy Brandmeyer, Arnaud Delorme
During the practice of meditation, the tendency of the mind to wander away from the object of focus is ubiquitous. The occurrence of mind wandering in the context of meditation provides individuals a unique and intimate opportunity to closely examine the nature of the wandering mind by cultivating an awareness of ongoing thought patterns, while simultaneously aiming to cultivate equanimity...
Cultural Studies of Science Education 2021 Grant Zouch, Joanna Higgins, Suskya Goodall et al.
Contemplative practices are used with increasing frequency across various fields of knowledge, and increasingly so within educational settings as a means of promoting wellness and wellbeing. In this paper, we draw on qualitative data derived from primary students' experiences of meditative breathing and use them as a springboard to extrapolate meaning and cogenerate novel insights around...
Frontiers in Public Health 2021 Caio Fábio Schlechta Portella, Ricardo Ghelman, Veronica Abdala et al.
Study Basis: This evidence map presents a summary of studies that addressed the effects of meditation on various clinical and health conditions. Meditation is a contemplative practice that has been used for the promotion of health, and the treatment of different conditions. Method: The study is based on the search of four electronic databases for the period 1994-November 2019 and includes...
Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Christine D Wilson-Mendenhall, John D. Dunne
An emerging focus in affective science is the expertise that underlies healthy emotionality. A growing literature highlights emotional granularity - the ability to make fine-grained distinctions in one's affective feelings - as an important skill. Cross-sectional evidence indicating the benefits of emotional granularity raises the question of how emotional granularity might be intentionally...
Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Karin Matko, Peter Sedlmeier, Holger C Bringmann
Traditionally, yoga is a multicomponent practice consisting of postures, breathing techniques, meditation, mantras, and ethics. To date, only a few studies have tried to dismantle the effects of each of these components and their combinations. To fill this gap, we examined the incremental effects of ethical education and physical Hatha yoga on mantra meditation using a single-case...
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 2021 Marcia J Ash, Elizabeth Reisinger Walker, Ralph J DiClemente et al.
This study examines the effectiveness of incorporating compassion meditation training into a clinical pastoral education (CPE) curriculum to enhance compassion satisfaction and reduce burnout among hospital chaplain residents. Specifically, a longitudinal, quasi-experimental design was used to examine the impact of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), a group-delivered compassion...
Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Gabriella Conti, Orla Doyle, Pasco Fearon et al.
This manuscript presents a demonstration study of Quiet Time (QT), a classroom-based Transcendental Meditation intervention. The aim of the study is to assess the feasibility of implementing and evaluating QT in two pilot settings in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This study contributes to the field by targeting middle childhood, testing efficiency in two settings operating under different...
2021 Andrés Eduardo Nieto-Vallejo, O. Ramírez-Pérez, Luis Eduardo Ballesteros-Arroyave et al.
Meditation is a form of mental training that has therapeutic potential and cognitive benefits that may enhance attention, mental well-being, and neuroplasticity. However, the learning process is not easy because meditators do not receive immediate feedback that lets them know if they are correctly doing the activity. EEG Neurofeedback training is one of the techniques to train brain...
Work 2021 Teresa Fazia, Francesco Bubbico, Giovanni Berzuini et al.
Background: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are known for their beneficial effects on positive and negative psychological factors. When applied in an occupational context, MBIs might help workers to cope with stress, increase their professional outcomes and wellbeing. Objective: In this two-groups pre-post experimental design we tested the effect of our MBI, called Integral Meditation...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders 2021 Inka Papenfuss, Miriam J. J. Lommen, Christian Grillon et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions have gained extensive support for their application in the treatment of anxiety. However, their mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Excessive reactivity to uncertainty plays a central role in anxiety, and may represent a mechanism for the effect of mindfulness on anxiety, as mindfulness training fosters an open and accepting stance towards all aspects of...