Orphan adolescents face multiple vulnerabilities, including a lack of parental guidance, poor educational opportunities, socio-economic disadvantages and peer pressure, making them prone to unhealthy behaviours, risk-taking, anxiety and depression. Despite these challenges, they often exhibit resilience, though forming stable social bonds remains difficult. The use of Anapanasati meditation in...
IntroductionThis study investigates the cognitive effects of long term (years of practice) Tai Chi practice, revealing mixed outcomes for executive functions. This study equally addresses the gap in research regarding the long term effects of Tai Chi, emphasizing its influence on the executive functions of young adults.MethodsUsing the BRIEFA scale and tasks like the Flanker task, More Odd...
Stress and anxiety are increasing mental health problems and can have a negative impact on an individual's physical and psychological well-being. Traditional yoga and meditation, including Yoga DHSP Bali, are known as holistic approaches that have the potential to help with stress and anxiety control. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effect of DHSP Bali Traditional Yoga and Meditation...
Background: While Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) is widely recognized for its physical and mental health benefits, its mindful components are often overlooked in traditional training. Mindfulness-enhanced Tai Chi Chuan (MTCC) has been proposed to address this limitation, yet little research has explored its long-term impact on exercise motivation and physical fitness. This study extends previous findings...
This article proposes a dual-self states framework to demonstrate how phenomenology and neuroscience of embodied and altered states of consciousness illuminate the nature of consciousness and the sense of self. It argues that consciousness is best conceived as dynamic configurations of a reflective and an experiential self state, rather than as static, taxonomic layers of self. The reflective...
Objective: To investigate the effects of exercise combined with mindfulness meditation training on the quality of life, mental health, immune function, and complications in perioperative cancer patients. Methods: To explore the effect of exercise combined with mindfulness meditation on quality of life, anxiety, depression, immune function and complications in perioperative cancer patients, this...
Abstract:Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been applied across various fields, notably in education. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition of their application to online formats. While this type of delivery may be especially valuable in military settings given their unique constraints, research in Korea has been limited. The current study describes the first online MBI...
Anxiety or anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental health problems experienced by modern society, affecting both men and women, particularly in the digital era due to pressures from family, work, academic demands, and social environments. One non-pharmacological approach that is widely used to address anxiety disorders is mindfulness meditation. This article aims to examine...
Discover Mental HealthJanuary 8, 2026Mireya Velázquez-Paniagua, Laura Gómez-Virgilio, Blanca Margarita Gómez-Chavarín et al.
INTRODUCTION: In Mexico, 25–45% of medical students experience burnout syndrome, which may be reduced through mindfulness-based interventions (MBI). No study has evaluated this intervention’s impact on our country’s population. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effects of an eight-week MBI on medical students, professors and administrative staff from the Faculty of Medicine at the...
The original MAPS manual for MDMA-assisted therapy (MDMA-AT) opened a therapeutic frontier for PTSD. However, it drew critique for concepts—such as “inner healing intelligence” – that originated in transpersonal traditions rather than academic or empirically grounded clinical models. While many patients found the therapies helpful, these constructs were difficult to interpret and standardize....
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness psychoeducation in increasing understanding of anxiety in the elderly in Rame Hamlet, Pilang Village, Wonoayu District, Sidoarjo Regency. The elderly often face anxiety related to age and health changes, so mindfulness psychoeducation is expected to increase their understanding of how to manage anxiety. A total of 25 elderly people...
This chapter introduces the convergence of Sufi mysticism and Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology, rooted in the author’s personal journey of spiritual and psychological exploration. While researching the Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan and his teachings, the author encountered interpersonal conflicts within the Sufi community, which prompted an investigation into Jung’s concept of the...
Older adults in the U.S. have higher rates of depression, stress, and chronic diseases. There is an urgent need for effective interventions to reduce depressive symptoms and enhance overall health and well-being. Meditation presents an appealing therapeutic option due to its cost-effectiveness, minimal risks, ease of use, and active patient involvement, with growing evidence indicating its...
Occupational suffering exhaustion related to stress in the workplace is experienced by nurses who are regularly confronted with trauma, suffering, and high workloads. suffer exhaustion can negatively impact patient care and have detrimental effects on nurses’ physical and mental health. Meditation-based stress decrease programs have been researched as a potential holistic intervention for...
This study examines the effect of mindfulness training on improving executive functions—especially working memory and attention—among gifted students with special educational needs in learning English. The sample consisted of 46 gifted students with special educational needs, who were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The study included an experimental phase...
Academic stress is one of the main challenges experienced by postgraduate students due to complex academic workloads, such as thesis writing, scientific publications, work demands, and personal roles. This condition can trigger emotional exhaustion, decreased concentration, anxiety, and burnout. This study used the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method to analyze the role of mindfulness as...
Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian (global majority (GM)) may be more prone to...
Psychological interventions have reliable but modest effects on chronic pain outcomes, but our understanding of the mechanisms that underlie these effects remains limited. This paper presents the findings from a series of secondary analyses using data from a randomized clinical trial (clinicalTrials.gov, NCT02653664). Three hundred and twenty-eight Veterans of the US Armed Forces with chronic...
This narrative review synthesizes evidence identified through targeted searches of PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (2010-2025), with a focused selection of human and mechanistic studies examining GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s), food cue reactivity, prospective cognition, mindfulness-based interventions, and neural network dynamics relevant to 'food noise' and the default mode network...
Meditation has a rich history and is deeply integrated into Indian civilization. Its diverse applications have attracted the attention of researchers across disciplines, revealing that meditation offers powerful and transformative benefits for the mind and spirit. In the post-pandemic period, there has been heightened awareness of mental health and psychosocial well-being, as the long-term...