Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
June 1, 2010
Sanjib K. Patra, Shirley Telles
Day time activities are known to influence the sleep on the following night. Cyclic meditation (CM) has recurring cycles. Previously, the low frequency (LF) power and the ratio between low frequency and high frequency (LF/HF ratio) of the heart rate variability (HRV) decreased during and after CM but not after a comparable period of supine rest (SR). In the present study, on thirty male...
CrossCurrents
June 1, 2010
Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, Heidi A. Wayment
1 citation
The Buddhist Health Study: Meditation on Love and Compassion as Features of Religious Practice Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, and Heidi Wayment Love and compassion are most important, most precious, most powerful, and most sacred. Practicing them is useful not only in terms of true religion but also in worldly life for both mental and physical health. They are the basic elements supporting our...
Acta Neuropsychiatrica
June 2010
Alberto Chiesa, Paolo Brambilla, Alessandro Serretti
Chiesa A, Brambilla P, Serretti A. Functional neural correlates of mindfulness meditations in comparison with psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy and placebo effect. Is there a link? Mindfulness meditations (MM) are a group of meditation practices which are increasingly receiving attention. The aim of the present work is to review current findings about the neural correlates of MM and compare such...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 2010
Effect of progressive self-focus meditation on attention, anxiety, and depression scores.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 2010
Long-term Vihangam Yoga meditation and scores on tests of attention.
CrossCurrents
June 1, 2010
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
6 citations
Meditation as Medicine: A Critique Wakoh Shannon Hickey Twenty‐seven adults are arrayed at the front of a large, sloping lecture hall: some lying on their backs, some upright in free‐standing chairs, some in the tiers of seats bolted to the floor. Most appear to range in age from mid‐forties to mid‐fifties. The lights are dim, most eyes are closed, and except for occasional fidgeting, everyone...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
June 1, 2010
Depression, craving, and substance use following a randomized trial of mindfulness-based relapse prevention.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
June 1, 2010
Mindfulness training modifies cognitive, affective, and physiological mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence: results of a randomized controlled pilot trial.
Ethnography
June 1, 2010
Michal Pagis
118 citations
The ‘problem of other minds’ is central to sociological theory and of immediate importance to contemporary research on subjectivity and interiority. How do we cultivate and maintain an intersubjective space during silent, private, experiences? Drawing on Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, this study challenges the common view which regards silence as an obstacle to social relations. The data...
Assessment
June 2010
Corinna Baum, Willem Kuyken, Martin Bohus et al.
The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS) is a well-validated multidimensional questionnaire measuring dimensions of mindfulness on four scales: Observing, Describing, Act With Awareness, and Accept Without Judgment. Even though the KIMS has been used in several clinical studies no information is available about the psychometric properties in different clinical samples. The present...