Mindfulness
April 1, 2023
Charlotta Simonsson, Richard Chambers, Peter S. Hendricks et al.
15 citations
Previous research has investigated potential synergies between classic psychedelics and meditation practice, but relatively little remains known about the relationship between classic psychedelic experiences and engagement with meditation practice.The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between classic psychedelic experiences and engagement with two popular types of...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
March 31, 2023
Erik Ekbäck, Lina Rådmark, Gabriel Granåsen et al.
Background: Depression is a top-ranking global health concern increasing in magnitude. Available treatments for adolescents and young adults are not convincingly effective and relapse rates remain high. Training for Awareness, Resilience and Action (TARA) is a group treatment program targeting specific pathophysiological mechanisms of depression in young people. TARA is feasible, acceptable,...
Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
March 31, 2023
Mi Yu, Sang-Il Youn, Hee-Wook Weon
This study analyzes the effects of a singing bowl loving-kindness meditation program on life stress and EEG of adults. Two male and five female adult subjects between the ages of 40 and 64 years voluntarily participated in the study. The intervention period was 60 minutes per day for 7 days, from August 7 to August 13, 2022. Each session comprised a 20-minute introduction of 'self-reflection',...
Current Psychology
March 30, 2023
Jai Meynadier, J. Malouff, Natasha M. Loi et al.
Problematic social media use consists of use that interferes with individuals’ functioning, such as for example in failing to complete important tasks. A number of studies have investigated the association of trait mindfulness with problematic social media use. This meta-analysis synthesised research from 14 studies and a total of 5355 participants to examine the association between mindfulness...
The Korean Tea Society
March 30, 2023
Jooyoung Jang
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a tea-meditation program on the daily stress levels of children in community child centers in G-city, G-do. The study comprised an experimental group of 14 children and a control group of 14 students and was based on the loving-kindness and compassion tea-meditation program of Wonheo Ji-woon’s Jabi-dasun. The study covered 5 sessions of 10...
Wonkwang University Legal Research Institute
March 30, 2023
Zi Soo ZEN
The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. It is doubtful whether meditation is included in the protection of religious freedom. Traditionally, meditation has been used as a means to achieve religious goals. Modern meditation is losing its religiosity. In other words, modern meditation is changing into secularity, popularity, and industrialization. The secularization of meditation calls...
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
March 30, 2023
Sara Bitton, Alex Chatburn, Maarten A. Immink
4 citations
Previous investigations into the effect of mindfulness meditation on false memory have reported mixed findings. One potential issue is that mindfulness meditation involves different styles that establish distinct cognitive control states. The present work aimed to address this issue by comparing the effects of single-session focused attention (FAM) and open monitoring (OMM) mindfulness...
Global Educational Studies Review
March 30, 2023
H. Wahid, Maryam Hanif Ghazi, A. Lashari
This study aimed to find whether meditation can be effective in terms of post-traumatic stress(PSTD) or not. The purpose of this current study was to analyse the flood victims specifically (IDPs) by the influence of meditation on state post-traumatic stress. Guided meditation is helpful in reduction of the stress. The study analyses how meditation reduces the post-traumatic stress of IDP flood...
Journal of Consumer Affairs
March 29, 2023
Amy Errmann, Felix Septianto
6 citations
Abstract Mindfulness is emerging as a contemplative tool that may positively influence consumers' preference for virtue food, thus supporting health and well‐being. However, it remains unclear which consumer groups may benefit the most from mindfulness. Previous research has demonstrated that consumers who experienced unpredictable environments in low socioeconomic households as children...
International Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Allied Sciences
March 29, 2023
Background:The current era of advanced technology and cut throat competition and the unstoppable 21 st century was suddenly hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic waves in 2020.It had an extremely devastating effect on the whole mankind especially on human mental health and peace.Surprisingly the sounds of upcoming world War 3 waves may be clubbed with the 4 th wave of Covid-19 across the globe by...
SMARATUNGGA JURNAL OF EDUCATION AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
March 29, 2023
M. Gargiulo
In recent decades, the academic literature on mindfulness has grown rapidly as it uncovers similarities and differences between mindfulness practices in Buddhism, Stoic philosophy, and Christian meditation. This research, which is still in its early stages, aims to distinguish the specific notes or elements that represent each of these mindfulness practices within a conceptual framework....
Psychology of Music
March 29, 2023
Serena Paese, Hauke Egermann
8 citations
Music performance anxiety (MPA) affects numerous musicians, preventing them from performing to the full extent of their abilities. A variety of tools are used to cope with MPA among which is meditation. Although research conducted to date has made a distinction between the types of meditative techniques and their effects, this aspect is still not thoroughly investigated. The aim of this...
Brain Topography
March 28, 2023
Roberto Guidotti, Antea D’Andrea, Alessio Basti et al.
32 citations
Neuroimaging studies have provided evidence that extensive meditation practice modifies the functional and structural properties of the human brain, such as large-scale brain region interplay. However, it remains unclear how different meditation styles are involved in the modulation of these large-scale brain networks. Here, using machine learning and fMRI functional connectivity, we...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
March 28, 2023
Colin H. Simonds
6 citations
Abstract Whether occasioned through careful, consistent meditative practice or through quicker means like the ritual ingestion of psilocybin or ayahuasca, global contemplative practices have established effective systems of implementing, directing, and integrating the very kinds of non-ordinary experiences central to psychedelic use. However, contemplative traditions are largely absent from the...
Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences
March 27, 2023
Yuling Zhong
1 citation
Mindfulness has been spreading rapidly in the study and practice of Western psychology. Large amounts of research have shown that mindfulness training is effective in improving a variety of symptoms associated with physical and psychological disorders such as chronic pain, anxiety and depression. Moreover, mindfulness training is also proven to improve the level of dispositional mindfulness as...
Mindfulness
March 27, 2023
Denise Zheng, Daniel R. Berry, Kirk Warren Brown
Objectives: Relative to the tendency to empathize with and help sociocultural in-group members, there are often social and psychological barriers to responding prosocially toward out-group members. This experiment examined the roles of mindfulness instruction and compassion instruction in fostering prosocial behavior toward an ethnic out-group (non-U.S. Arabs) relative to an ethnic in-group...
INFLUENCE International Journal of Science Review
March 26, 2023
Sulaiman Girivirya
1 citation
The Buddhist guidance and counseling model was applied to a client who experienced post-stroke 3 stress disorder and was isolated at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Mindfulness of breathing, body and mind activities is very important in mindfulness practice. Mental relaxation treatments and measurements were administered using the first generation Muse™ "S" Series. Portable and...
Current Issues in Molecular Biology
March 24, 2023
Hana Dema, Alja Videtic Paska, Katarina Kouter et al.
17 citations
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine and metabolic disorder affecting women of reproductive age. Research has shown that epigenetic alterations such as DNA methylation may play a role in the development and progression of abnormal ovarian function and metabolic disorders in PCOS. Studies have identified specific genes (related with insulin signaling and steroid hormone metabolism)...
Journal of Clinical Medicine
March 24, 2023
Sarah Rempel, Lea L. Backhausen, Maria McDonald et al.
(1) Background: 1–2% of children and adolescents are affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The rigid, repetitive features of OCD and an assumed disability to inhibit recent mental representations are assumed to have led to a paradoxical advantage in that the Backward Inhibition (BI) effect was recently found to be lower in adolescents with OCD as compared to healthy controls. It was...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
March 23, 2023
H. Chang, Xiaolu Meng, Yaqi Li et al.
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social media addiction (SMA), making it urgent to find effective interventions for social media addiction. Evidence has shown that mindfulness might be an effective intervention for social media addiction. However, psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness reduce social media use remain unclear. Here, we further addressed this issue to...