Abstract Introduction: Workplace stress is a growing public health concern in Singapore, and mental health disorders account for a substantial share of the national disease burden. Mindfulness-based interventions are increasingly proposed to support employee well-being, but demand and the barriers and facilitators to workplace implementation remain poorly characterized. Aim To assess perceived...
Abstract Background Loneliness is a growing public health concern among older adults, likewise in Hong Kong. Mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in addressing loneliness, but often yield modest and short-lived effects. Digital delivery makes such interventions scalable but sustaining user engagement remains challenging. Adaptive interventions that integrate human support, mobile...
Background: The global mental health crisis has intensified demand for effective, accessible, and evidence-based interventions. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), most notably Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), have emerged as widely adopted psychotherapeutic approaches. Objective: This narrative literature review examines the...
Chemosignals found in human body odors (BOs) convey information about a person's emotional state and elicit observable responses in others. While mindfulness typically enhances parasympathetic tone and reduces anxiety, little is known about how BOs modulate these effects. This study investigated how emotional and non-emotional human BOs influence autonomic nervous system activity - heart rate...
Objective: This study aimed to examine the effects of a Mindfulness-Based Community Renewal (MBCR) intervention on residents’ mindfulness, empathy, and sense of community within an urban renewal context. Methods: Fifty community residents were randomly assigned to either an experimental group receiving four biweekly mindfulness workshops over eight weeks or a control group receiving standard...
Adolescência e SaúdeJune 10, 2026S Nagarajan, K Subbulakshmi, S Vidhya Shankari et al.
Few randomized studies have isolated the incremental contribution of Dheergha Swasam (deep diaphragmatic breathing), a fundamental yoga technique thought to promote the psychological benefits of asana-based practice in student groups. In this three-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial, female postgraduate students in Chennai, India, were asked if a 12-week yoga practice program that...
Objective: To synthesize and critically appraise recent empirical evidence on the role of mindfulness in optimizing mental health in sports, particularly among athletes and coaches. Method: Employed a systematic literature review using the PRISMA guidelines. Articles were searched through ScienceDirect and Google Scholar using the keywords mindfulness, sport, and mental health. The inclusion...
Objectives: Over recent decades, Western psychology has drawn extensively from Buddhism to create effective mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). To identify opportunities for deeper integration, this study compared the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, a foundational Buddhist text on mindfulness, with two established MBIs for mental health. Methods: Template analysis was used to systematically compare the...
A growing body of psychological and neuroscientific research suggests that moral injury (MI) involves maladaptive self-referential processing, including disruptions in moral identity, rigid negative self-appraisals, and impaired meaning-making following exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs). Building on Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory (MMT), this paper proposes...
Substantial evidence suggests that the late positive potential (LPP) indexes motivated attention to salient stimuli. However, traditional measurement of the LPP via mean amplitude may not fully capture rapid attentional dynamics. A nascent line of work has sought to remediate this limitation by measuring the LPP slope (i.e., rate of amplitude change); yet its functional significance and...
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) combined with aerobic training on treatment adherence, kinesiophobia (an excessive fear of movement), heart rate variability (HRV), exercise tolerance, and psychological stress response in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods: Post-PCI patients (n = 150)...
This study examines whether regular Heartfulness meditation practice enhances heart–brain coherence and how such coherence may be understood through Yogic and Indic psychological models of mental health and consciousness. A controlled experiment was conducted comparing Heartfulness practitioners with matched non-meditating controls using the HeartMath Inner Balance Coherence Plus device, which...
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to examine mindfulness and experiential avoidance as profile indicators associated with social media use disorder through an individual-centered approach. Therefore, we examined how mindfulness and experiential avoidance co-occur with social media use disorder within a theoretically informed framework. METHODS: The study data were obtained from 826 participants, 348...
This study looks at the efficacy of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in reducing psychological stress for parents of children with all developmental disabilities. A one–group pre test – post test quasi experimental design was used. Participants in the MBSR intervention program for 8 weeks were the 35 parents (25-45 years) who were in the sample. The Depression Anxiety...
Meditation apps are increasingly popular but face significant engagement challenges. Most research does not meaningfully capture real-world engagement or associated user characteristics. Engagement patterns and reasons for engaging or disengaging remain relatively unexplored. This study aimed to examine Medito app user engagement over the first 30 days after download and how intended use,...
The concept of Shadchakra (six energy centres) constitutes a cornerstone of classical Ayurvedic and Yogic philosophy, providing a comprehensive framework for understanding the Pranic (bio-energetic) dimension of human physiology. Derived from canonical texts including the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Shat-Chakra-Nirupana, Charaka Samhita, and Sushruta Samhita, the Shadchakra system describes six...
Emotional acceptance is an important practice for recognizing anxiety, anger, appetite, the need for approval, jealousy, loneliness, procrastinatory impulses, and other internal reactions as observable experiences rather than denying or suppressing them. However, even after emotions and desires have been accepted, they may become sources of personality-level self-blame when they are identified...