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,...
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...
Abstract Emotional mimicry—the imitation of others’ emotions—fosters social bonding, but only when an affiliative emotion aligns with its context. We tested whether a brief Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) could broaden affiliative responsiveness to both congruent and incongruent emotional displays. In an online study (N = 214), participants watched targets expressing joy or disgust in scenes...
Background: Late-life depression (LLD) is a growing public health concern in aging populations. Although digital mindfulness interventions show promise for depression, anxiety, and insomnia, their efficacy and electroencephalogram (EEG) correlates in older adults with LLD remain unclear. This study evaluated the FocusZen Mindfulness Stress Reduction System, a digital mindfulness intervention...
Investigations into mindfulness and well-being have increasingly turned toward social outcomes such as compassion. However, research is needed to understand how mindfulness relates to compassion in real-world contexts. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain insufficiently understood, with self-related processes-particularly self-absorption and interdependent...
Abstract Objectives: To examine exploratory autonomic and gut microbiome correlates associated with an online mindfulness- and compassion-based intervention for parental burnout. Methods: This exploratory secondary analysis used data from a three-arm randomized clinical trial conducted in Chile. The parent trial included 595 women with at least one child who teleworked at least one day per...
Anxiety is a psychological problem that is commonly faced by teenagers in Indonesia, which is often triggered by academic, social, and spiritual pressures. This research aims to develop a theoretical design that combines Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and muhasabah as a comprehensive approach in reducing anxiety in adolescents. Using the narrative review method, this study explores...