Interest in mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents is burgeoning, bringing with it the need for validated instruments to assess mindfulness in youths. The present studies were designed to validate among adolescents a measure of mindfulness previously validated for adults (e.g., Brown & Ryan, 2003), which we herein call the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-Adolescent...
La douleur est une expérience multidimensionnelle comportant des aspects sensoriels, émotionnels et cognitifs. Il a été montré que cette expérience peut être modulée par des facteurs psychologiques ou des interventions cognitives comme l’attention, la distraction, l’hypnose ou les attentes. La tradition orientale suggère également que la pratique de la méditation pourrait avoir des effets...
Meditation has been for long time avoided as a scientific theme because of its complexity and its religious connotations. Fortunately, in the last years, it has increasingly been studied within different neuroscientific experimental protocols. Attention and concentration are surely among the most important topics in these experiments. Notwithstanding this, inhibition of emotions and discursive...
To determine whether the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique can affect the physician costs of consistently high-cost people. Quasi-experimental, longitudinal, cost-minimization evaluation. This 14-year, preintervention-postintervention study retrospectively assessed government payments to physicians for treating the TM and no-treatment (NT) groups. Province of Quebec, Canada. The...
Awareness is not a giver of solace-it is just the opposite. It is a disturber and an awakener. Able leaders are usually sharply awake and reasonably disturbed. They are not seekers after solace. They have their own inner serenity.
In Thailand there is cultural acknowledgement of a range of traditional therapies (including complementary therapies) used in Thai health care. Meditation enjoys wide acceptance within Thai culture and attracts strong participation from western visitors to Thai Buddhist Centres because of growing interest in personal health for future preventative health problems. The extensive use of...
One surprising and yet relatively unknown aspect of contemporary Korean Buddhism is the significant influence of American and European Buddhism. Between 1989 and 2009, South Koreans witnessed well-educated “blue-eyed” monastic residents via the Korean media, and the emergence of new bestsellers by authors like Thich Nhat Hahn and Jack Kornfield, written initially for Western audiences but since...
Poincare plots are commonly used to study the non-linear behavior of physiological signals. In the time series analysis, the width of Poincare plots can be considered as a criterion of short-term variability in signals. The hypothesis that Poincare plot indexes of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals can detect dy-namic changes during meditation was examined in sixteen healthy women. Therefore,...
Objective. To assess the effect of meditation on work stress, anxiety and mood in full-time workers. Methods. 178 adult workers participated in an 8-week, 3-arm randomized controlled trial comparing a "mental silence" approach to meditation (n = 59) to a "relaxation" active control (n = 56) and a wait-list control (n = 63). Participants were assessed before and after using Psychological Strain...
Human experiences can be broadly divided into those that are external and related to interaction with the environment, and experiences that are internal and self-related. The cerebral cortex appears to be divided into two corresponding systems: an "extrinsic" system composed of brain areas that respond more to external stimuli and tasks and an "intrinsic" system composed of brain areas that...