Qualitative Health Research
December 1, 2005
Anne Bruce, Betty Davies
In this interpretive study, the authors explore the experience of mindfulness among hospice caregivers who regularly practice mindfulness meditation at a Zen hospice. They explore meditative awareness constituted within themes of meditation-in-action, abiding in liminal spaces, seeing differently, and resting in groundlessness. By opening into nonconceptual, paradoxical, and uncertain...
Neuroreport
November 7, 2005
Sara W. Lazar, Catherine E. Kerr, Rachel H. Wasserman et al.
1,707 citations
Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered resting electroencephalogram patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity. We hypothesized that meditation practice might also be associated with changes in the brain's physical structure. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess cortical thickness in 20 participants with extensive...
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
November 2005
Mark A. Lau, Shelley F McMain
Recent innovations in psychological treatments have integrated mindfulness meditation techniques with traditional cognitive and behavioural therapies, challenging traditional cognitive and behavioural therapists to integrate acceptance- and change-based strategies. This article details how 2 treatments, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy, have met this...
Taehan Kanho Hakhoe chi
October 1, 2005
Haeng-Mi Son, Joo-Hyun Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of recovery from disease in the patients doing a kind of Buddhist meditation, and to develop a grounded theory about meditation. Method: Data was collected by an in-depth interview using tape-recordings from sixteen participants doing meditation. The data was analyzed using the grounded theory method proposed by Strauss and...
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
October 1, 2005
Randye J Semple, Elizabeth F. G. Reid, Lisa Miller
This study is an open clinical trial that examined the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness training program for anxious children. We based this pilot initiative on a cognitively oriented model, which suggests that, since impaired attention is a core symptom of anxiety, enhancing self-management of attention should effect reductions in anxiety. Mindfulness practices are essentially...
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation
October 1, 2005
Marion Martin
Advertising lures us into believing that happiness can be bought by going on frequent exotic holidays, accessing our favourite pieces of music wherever we go and being able to contact our friends whenever we start to feel alone. Yet all this availability of entertainment and pleasure in the Western world does not seem to make us feel happier or less bored. We have reached a stage where one in...
European Journal of Pain
October 2005
Ryusuke Kakigi, Hiroki Nakata, Koji Inui et al.
We recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) following noxious laser stimulation in a Yoga Master who claims not to feel pain when meditating. As for background MEG activity, the power of alpha frequency bands peaking at around 10 Hz was much increased during meditation over occipital, parietal and temporal regions, when compared with the...
Journal of Palliative Medicine
October 1, 2005
Anna-Leila Williams, Peter A Selwyn, Lauren Liberti et al.
Certain meditation practices may effectively address spiritual needs near end-of-life, an often overlooked aspect of quality of life (QOL). Among people subject to physical isolation, meditation benefits may be blunted unless physical contact is also addressed. To evaluate independent and interactive effects of Metta meditation and massage on QOL in people with acquired immunodeficiency...
Journal of Advanced Nursing
September 29, 2005
Joanna E. Smith, Janet Richardson, Caroline Hoffman et al.
274 citations
AIM: This paper reports a systematic review and critical appraisal of the evidence on the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for cancer supportive care. BACKGROUND: The experience of cancer can have a negative impact on both psychological and physical health and on quality of life. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a therapy package that has been used with patients with a...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
September 1, 2005
James W Carson, Francis J Keefe, Thomas R Lynch et al.
Loving-kindness meditation has been used for centuries in the Buddhist tradition to develop love and transform anger into compassion. This pilot study tested an 8-week loving-kindness program for chronic low back pain patients. Patients (N = 43) were randomly assigned to the intervention or standard care. Standardized measures assessed patients' pain, anger, and psychological distress. Post and...