Innovation in Aging
December 21, 2023
Nirmala Lekhak, Tirth Bhatta, Eva Kahana et al.
Abstract Background & Significance Prior research has consistently established the role of meditation as a coping resource to mitigate the adverse impacts of stressful life situations on mental health. Yet, our understanding of mechanisms that transmit the positive effects of meditation on mental health among older adults is limited. Specifically, little research has examined the impact of...
Innovation in Aging
December 21, 2023
Nirmala Lekhak, Tirth Bhatta, Carolyn Streb et al.
Abstract It has been established that contemplative practices such as meditation can aid in stress management and the prevention of mental health issues. However, whether one of these techniques, such as loving-kindness meditation (LKM), is feasible for promoting later-life self-compassion, reducing loneliness, and maintaining mental health is unclear. This study examined the feasibility and...
Migration Letters
December 20, 2023
Retno Indriaswuri, I. Gading, Kadek Suranata et al.
Mindfulness, a state of mind adopted from Buddhist philosophy, has been widely applied to improve focus and awareness. In education, mindfulness helps students with mental and emotional problems, which results in increased academic achievement. The objective of this literature review is to analyze the influence of mindfulness on academic achievement. This review emphasizes the beneficial impact...
Poligrafi
December 20, 2023
Nina Petek
The first part of the paper briefly outlines the role of dreams in early Buddhism and their importance in establishing the continuity of the whole tradition, before presenting in the second part entirely new aspects of dreams in the Buddhist eremitic tradition, influenced by the Tantric spiritual horizon, in particular by a transformed concept of the body. The central part of the paper follows...
Poligrafi
December 20, 2023
Geoffrey Ashton
Breath is a grounding phenomenon present in many forms of Buddhist meditation. In traditional Buddhist meditations (including ānāpānasati and vipassanā), the practitioner observes the breath, surveys various physical and mental phenomena, and from there realizes that suffering (duḥkha) is not ultimately binding (and along the way, they may experience the nonduality of body and mind). Similarly,...
Interdisciplinary Research in Counseling, Ethics and Philosophy - IRCEP
December 20, 2023
Patrizia Cipolletta
How can we return to meditation in the West today? Descartes was the last person to meditate in the West, but after him, the gnoseology of his thought was all that prevailed, as well as the rift between subject and object: thinking, meditating, thus, became a form of reflection on something, which is an object detached from the subject who thinks. The philosophy of the twentieth century...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
December 19, 2023
Ting‐fen Lin, D. Linville, Rhonda N. T. Nese et al.
3 citations
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) impacts the physiological and psycho-emotional aspects of life. COPD-related secondary sequelae also synergistically interact with each other. For example, dyspnea affects the severity of breath, body functions, and the mind (e.g., anxiety, panic, fear). Such negative psycho-emotional states can further negatively impact the breath and the body...
Journal of Clinical Medicine
December 19, 2023
Hayley Smithers-Sheedy, Emma Waight, Katherine L Swinburn et al.
4 citations
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) has not yet been evaluated for people with cerebral palsy (CP). The aims of this randomised control trial were to investigate whether a modified telehealth MBSR program could improve mindfulness and reduce depression, anxiety, and emotion regulation difficulties among adults with CP with elevated anxiety and/or emotional regulation difficulties....
Scientific Reports
December 19, 2023
María Guadalupe Mora Álvarez, Britta Karen Hölzel, Benno Bremer et al.
19 citations
Mindfulness meditation training (MMT) reliably reduces stress and anxiety while also improving attention. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between MMT, stress and anxiety reduction, and its impact upon improvements in attention on the behavioral and neuronal levels. As a second aim, we sought to explore any relationship between MMT, attention, and modified...
The Management of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: An Integrated and Expeditionary Approach
December 18, 2023
Katarzyna Rygiel
It has been demonstrated that one of the components of mindfulness meditation, called self-kindness, plays a prominent role in alleviating distress perception, and reducing depressive symptoms, especially among younger women with breast cancer (BC), who represent a particularly vulnerable patient population, often struggling not only with a serious illness but also with numerous family and...
The Management of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: An Integrated and Expeditionary Approach
December 18, 2023
Katarzyna Rygiel
Mindfulness and compassion meditation have a positive impact on cognition, mood, behavior, and general health, based on recent studies in neuroscience. However, the research methodology is still insufficient to determine and measure different mental states during meditation, especially in minority populations. Intersectional Neuroscience, which is an innovative research model, may provide some...
Frontiers in Public Health
December 18, 2023
Ana María González-martín, Agustín Aibar-Almazán, Yulieth Rivas-Campo et al.
ObjectiveThis systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to analyze the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based program on sleep quality in healthy non-institutionalized older people.MethodsThis study was conducted following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items For Systematic Reviews And Meta-Analyses) guidelines. The search was conducted during May and June 2023 using four databases:...
Contagion: Scientific Periodical Journal of Public Health and Coastal Health
December 17, 2023
Mardiah Mardiah, Sri Sumarni, Muflihah Isnawati
The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in various cities of Bangka Belitung Province varies, where in 2018 from January to June, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in Bangka Belitung Islands Province was relatively low (57.6%). The problem of milk production is influenced by the reduced stimulation of oxytocin hormone. One of the non-pharmacological therapies that can be done is...
Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar
December 17, 2023
Elvan Kiremitçi Canıöz
Nowadays, individuals do yoga as a way to improve their physical and psychological health with the pursuit of feeling good. Therefore, examining yoga in terms of psychological factors is very important in literature and life. This study aimed to examine psychological well-being, happiness, and mindfulness according to yoga and non-yoga practitioners and the sequential mediating role of...
Scientific Reports
December 13, 2023
Katharina Voltmer, Finja Hondrich, Maria von Salisch
3 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been shown to improve children's academic achievements. Because MBIs include different exercises (possibly with differential effects), the teacher-led Breathing Break Intervention (BBI) was developed which focuses exclusively on breathing exercises and body awareness. The short daily breathing practices of BBI were evaluated in terms of their effects...
PsyArXiv
December 12, 2023
preprint
Advancing mindfulness research through innovative Ecological Momentary Assessment approaches
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter
December 11, 2023
Anne S. Walters
In the last 10 years, mindfulness has become a popular approach for managing strong or distressing feelings for adults and children. Particularly for children, mindfulness‐based interventions (MBIs) have been touted as a modality for the treatment of conditions ranging from attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, depression, and stress. Jon...
Psychological Services
December 7, 2023
J. Petrovic, Julia Milad, Jessica Mettler et al.
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as the deliberate destruction of one's bodily tissue without suicidal intent. Mindfulness practice is commonly incorporated into universities' stress management programming and may benefit students with a history of NSSI. However, recent findings suggest that these students may respond differentially to specific types of mindfulness practice (i.e.,...
Scientific Reports
December 7, 2023
O. U. Turer, M. Ozcan, B. Alkaya et al.
Dental implant surgery is almost always associated with patient anxiety. Anxiety during dental surgical procedures triggers an increase in sympathetic activity. Mindfulness meditation (MM) is often associated with high levels of relaxation in the form of increased parasympathetic tone and decreased sympathetic activity. However, the effect of MM on dental anxiety is not clear. The current study...
Brain Sciences
December 6, 2023
Florian Kurth, Sarah Strohmaier, Eileen Luders
7 citations
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a functionally heterogeneous brain region contributing to mental processes relating to meditation practices. The OFC has been reported to decline in volume with increasing age and differs in volume between meditation practitioners and non-practitioners. We hypothesized that the age-related decline of the OFC is diminished in meditation practitioners. We tested...