Persons with mental illness feel symptoms like depression, anxiety, or fatigue. It is important for them to decrease symptoms and increase well-being. The present study investigated efficacy of mindfulness yoga on mood and self-compassion of persons with mental illness. Participants were persons with mental illness who lived in a community. Thirteen participants received once mindfulness yoga...
In this essay, I argue that the scalability and effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness interventions for adolescents will always be limited by the high motivational commitment required to meditate. Mindfulness interventions rely on a single and demanding health behavior—namely, meditation—to cultivate mindfulness skills. But unlike traditional mindfulness interventions delivered in...
In recent years, mindfulness meditation has become increasingly popular as a way to relieve negative emotions. Although many studies have shown the advantages of the most immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies to support mindfulness meditation, few have summarized a standardized process for developing a VR tool to aid mindfulness meditation. We propose an interaction design model for VR...
Mindfulness-based Therapies are an umbrella terminology for a group of interventions that is significantly efficient and effective in treating sleep disorders. To find out further research path of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based therapy for insomnia, a meta-analysis is conducted. Ten articles were included. The standardized mean difference is used as a measure to...
Practicing mindfulness is associated with stress reduction and with positive effects in the context of learning and teaching. Although effects on student populations have been studied extensively, there are few studies implementing mindfulness exercises in university courses directly. For this reason, we aimed to investigate whether the use of a brief mindfulness exercise in regular university...
AutismMay 16, 2023Hanna Agius, Anne-Kristina Luoto, Anna Backman et al.
Autistic adults report high stress and impaired ability to cope with stressors. Mindfulness-based stress reduction targets individual’s own resources to regulate stress responses. An open feasibility study was conducted in an outpatient context, recruiting autistic adults without intellectual disability. The intervention, guided by trained mindfulness-based stress reduction teachers, followed...
Abstract BACKGROUND Our study discusses the use of hypnosis as a tool to regulate the subconscious mind, with some researchers viewing it as a form of top-down cognition. The aim of the study was to prove the connection between the subconscious mind and body weight by measuring weight loss caused by hypnosis. CASE PRESENTATION The study involved a 25-year-old woman with a BMI of 48.8 kg/m2, who...
The present investigation aims to examine the impact of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program (MBSR) and mindful practice on individuals diagnosed with cancer, drawing upon the extant literature. The MBSR program typically spans over a duration of eight weeks and involves a structured and intensive approach to training individuals in mindfulness meditation techniques. The present...
Hypertension is a major cause of cardiovascular disease. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet lowers blood pressure (BP). However, adherence is typically low. Mindfulness training adapted to improving health behaviors that lower BP could improve DASH adherence, in part through improved interoceptive awareness relevant to dietary consumption. The primary objective of the MB-BP...
Frontiers in PsychologyMay 15, 2023Louise Devillers-Réolon, J. Temprado, Rita Sleimen-Malkoun
Introduction Mindfulness meditation (MM) involves and benefits cognitive functioning, especially attention and inhibition processes, which are also implicated in the control of complex motor skills, such as bimanual coordination. Thus, MM practice could potentially enhance bimanual coordination control through its cognitive benefits. Accordingly, in this study, we investigated the acute effects...
Adolescents all over the world are vulnerable in facing developmental challenges. Recent studies have evidenced that the unexpected interruptions of school learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns about the well-being of adolescents. This present study sought to investigate the relationship between mindfulness, stress, savoring beliefs, and satisfaction of life among...
Objective: There is little knowledge about which types of meditation-based training are effective for alleviating which facets of psychological distress. We investigated shared and specific effects of three meditation-based training programs on distress. Method: 332 healthy adults were assigned to a retest control cohort or to one of three 3-month mental training cohorts including: the...
Review question / Objective: Objective :To evaluate the effect of mindfulness-based therapy on patients with neuropathic pain.Patient: Patients with neuropathic pain.Intervention: Mindfulness-based stress therapy.Outcome index: The main index was pain score; Secondary indexes were anxiety and depression scale, quality of life scale, sleep quality scale, etc. Study design.Case-control...
Research SquareMay 12, 2023Martín Bidegain, Andrea Berriel, Francisco López et al.
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Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to assess the effects of a virtual Mindful Self-compassion (MSC) intervention on mindfulness, self-compassion, empathy, stress, and well-being in Uruguayan primary school teachers. Methods: A quasi-experimental, longitudinal study was conducted with an active control intervention (Kundalini Yoga, KY). Uruguayan volunteer female teachers were randomly...
Unlike past psychological studies, which mainly concerned experimental ones such as behavior and nervous system, current research involves more traits related to attention and awareness. Hence, thanks to the growing concern for people’s mental health in modern society, the concept, “mindfulness” has gained ever-increasing impotence naturally as it could cultivate my awareness and benefit my...
A 35-year-old female hemodialysis (HD) patient with end-stage renal disease was able to successfully withdraw from benzodiazepines, which had been prescribed for managing psychiatric and pain symptoms, following a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention. The patient, who had been
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are growing in popularity, with research concerning their efficacy with youth populations. Following a preliminary analysis of the existing literature, and given the positive effects of such programs, we felt it relevant to assess whether research has considered the implications for MBIs on children and adolescents, with regard to depression, anxiety, and...
May 11, 2023Haoqian Li, Yiwen Helen Li, Yimeng Zeng
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Around the world, gay population suffer numerous mental distress problem, especially for those live under a conservative culture, like China. To deal with it, searching for protective factors and interventions to improve gay population’s mental health have become increasingly urgent. Masculinity, as a vital aspect of gay men’s gender roles, is observed to be a protective factor for certain...
The objectives of this research were: 1) to study the use of Vipassanā meditation for the development of Sangha administrators in the Sangha Region 10; 2) to study the guidelines for using Vipassanā meditation for the development of Nakhon Phanom Sangha administrators in the Sangha Region 10; 3) to propose a guideline for the use of Vipassanā meditation for the development of Nakhon Phanom...
Objectives: Positive effects of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on occupational health have been demonstrated by several systematic review studies during the last two decades. So far, existing reviews excluded mindfulness-informed interventions (MIIs) that build on informal approaches or mixed techniques aiming at improving mindfulness indirectly. To address this research gap, the...