Frontiers in Virtual Reality
July 25, 2023
D. Michael Franklin, Charles Silvestro, Robert A. Carrillo et al.
7 citations
Patients diagnosed with cancer experience a high degree of stress as well as side effects from treatments that can greatly impact their quality of life. Many patients experience long-term side effects such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and cognitive dysfunction. Several studies have reported that the use of virtual reality (VR) interventions show substantial benefits in reducing...
Research Square
July 24, 2023
Davide Anchisi, Brenno Ros, Luigino Sepulcri
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Sport and competitions stress athletes both physically and mentally. Physical training strengthens muscular and metabolic capabilities, while mental training reduces psychological load and negative emotions. Meditation practice helps athletes to reach better results in many sports, but evaluating only sport results makes it difficult to disentangle the specific effects of meditation...
Journal of Health Reports and Technology
July 22, 2023
Parvin Sadat Hosseini, Zahra Eftekhar Saadi, Reza Johari Fard
6 citations
Background: Many substance abusers suffer uncontrollable symptoms of extreme stress and cannot regulate their emotions after a traumatic experience. Objectives: This study hence investigated the effects of mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) therapy on drug craving and emotion regulation of therapeutic community (TC) center clients. Methods: This quasi-experimental research adopted a...
Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise
July 21, 2023
Esin Kaplan, Abdurrahman Aktop
1 citation
The aim of the study is to examine the effect of yoga practices on heart rate variability and mindfulness levels. A total of 52 women who did and didn’t do yoga (Mean age= 30.25±5.58) voluntarily participated in the study. Heart rate variability was measured using the HeartMath brand emWave Pro+. Using the Emwave Pro device, the resting heart rate variability measurements were taken for 5...
PsyArXiv
July 21, 2023
Rediet Emebet Getnet Alemu, Joan Kamere, Rosine Baseke et al.
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Background: Depressive and anxiety symptoms significantly impact the well-being of African youth. This problem is compounded by limited access to appropriate mental health care services and societal stigma. In addressing this issue in Kenya, we employed the network approach to psychopathology to identity the most significant symptoms of depression and anxiety. These network analyses revealed...
International Journal of Science and Research Archive
July 21, 2023
R. Jeya Rani, T. Priyanka
This research study aimed to investigate the impact of mindfulness-based interventions on stress reduction. The study utilized a pre- and post-intervention design to assess changes in stress levels among participants who engaged in a mindfulness-based intervention program. The sample consisted of 100 individuals from Tirunelveli city. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing their...
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
July 21, 2023
Michaela Sturgeon
4 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness interventions have been shown to ameliorate stress in support staff working with people with intellectual disabilities. This review aimed to explore what impact mindfulness interventions for staff have on their care and support behaviours, and on the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities receiving support. METHOD: A systematic search of PsycINFO, Web of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 21, 2023
Sheila Wachira, Lilian Wahome, Roseline Olumbe
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This study aimed at establishing the efficacy of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MBCBT) in treating PTSD symptoms among 50 paired couples (50 husbands and 50 wives) in selected PCEA churches in Nairobi County, Kenya. The couples were assigned to either an experimental group or a control group. Those in experimental group were exposed to an MBCBT intervention for a period of 10...
The Journal of general psychology
July 21, 2023
Yanhui Xiang, Yuchun Zhang, Xiaojun Li
The link between civilization and technology has long been a hotspot of research around the world. Mobile phone addiction has become a common social phenomenon with advances in society and technology, wreaking havoc on people's emotional health, physical fitness, and personal connections. Considering the positive effects of mindfulness, this study used the diary method to explore the...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 21, 2023
Marta Ortega-Otero, Francisco Montesinos, Luka Charrabe
Sexual satisfaction is tremendously relevant to wellbeing and quality of life. Inversely, hypersexuality may increase the risk of psychological distress, unprotected sex, and marital problems. This study attempts to explore the sociodemographic variables related to hypersexuality and the relationship between hypersexuality and sexual dissatisfaction with psychological inflexibility, cognitive...
Preprints.org
July 21, 2023
Fran Hancock, Fernando E. Rosas, Mengsen Zhang et al.
16 citations
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Healthy brain functioning depends on balancing stable integration between brain areas for effective coordinated functioning, with bursts of desynchronisation to allow subsystems to reconfigure and express functional specialisation. Metastability, a concept originated in statistical physics and dynamical systems theory, has been proposed as a key signature that characterises this balance....
Religions
July 21, 2023
Federico Divino
7 citations
This article investigates the challenge of personal crisis during deep meditation, as observed in an ethnographic inquiry into mindfulness and traditional contemplative practices. The study distinguishes between the “crisis of presence” in contemporary mindfulness practices, and the dissolution of the subject-object distinction in traditional Buddhist meditation. By analyzing Ernesto De...
Philosophies
July 21, 2023
Márk Losoncz
1 citation
This article not only mentions spiritual anarchism nominally, as do so many previous articles, but tries to define it as precisely as possible. The definition assumes that the self itself can be a source of unjustifiable authority and a limitation to freedom, and that spiritual anarchism is nothing more than being open to that which transegoically transcends our narrow perspective. The article...
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
July 21, 2023
Nina Laplaud, Anaïck Perrochon, Matthieu Gallou-Guyot et al.
16 citations
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur after trauma. While PTSD management strategies include first-line pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, mind-body therapies, such as yoga, are applied in the PTSD population. This overview aimed to summarize the effectiveness of yoga interventions on PTSD symptoms in adults in a systematic review (SR) including randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We...
International Journal of Emotional Education
July 20, 2023
Elaine Atkins, Matthew Muscat-Inglott
1 citation
Existing research suggests that mindfulness cultivates positive affect while reducing negative affect, and facilitates increases in resilience. More research is needed to examine the complex mechanisms by which emotional affect likely translates mindfulness into increased states of resilience in undergraduates. We hypothesised that the relationship between mindfulness and resilience in Maltese...
Mind and Society
July 20, 2023
Abhinav Das, Yogesh Kumar Arya, Shubham Pandey et al.
Mindfulness has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential benefits for cognitive and emotional processes. However, how mindfulness interplays with affect to exert its effect on decision-making remains relatively less explored. The present study examined and compared the performance of both mindfulness meditators and non-meditators on decisionmaking tasks under different...
Preprints.org
July 20, 2023
Mansooreh Azizzadeh Forouzi, Fahimeh Baghbani, Azam Zare Arashlouei et al.
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(1) Background: COVID-19 had devastating effects on both physical and mental well-being, prompting the need for interventions. This study aimed to explore the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction on mental health, mindfulness, and sleep disorders in COVID-19 survivors.; (2) Methods: In this interventional parallel study, the sample was selected university students in nursing and...
Religions
July 20, 2023
Sophie-Anne Perkins
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the contextual, epistemic, ethical, personal, practical, religious, and socio-cultural factors that sixteen Western practitioners of Vajrayāna Buddhism highlighted as having particularly challenged their ability to learn and engage in deity yoga, including what strategies they may have adopted in attempting to overcome their impact. While these...
July 19, 2023
Jeffery D. Long
Drawing upon both anthropological descriptions and primary Jain textual sources (particularly the Jñānasāra of the seventeenth century Śvetāmbara Jain master, Yaśovijaya), this chapter focuses on the particulars of how Jain worship and ritual are conducted, as well as on how these activities are conceptualized in the Jain tradition. The thesis will be that Jain ritual involves a twofold process...
JMIR Mental Health
July 19, 2023
Amanda Sommerhoff, Thomas W. Ehring, Keisuke Takano
Background: Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a cognitive risk factor for various disorders. Although brief mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs; lasting 20-30 minutes or shorter) are effective tools to reduce RNT, the effect of a minimal (5-minute) MBI remains largely unknown. Objective: We investigated the acute changes in RNT induced by a 10-day minimal MBI (body scan before sleeping)...