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PSYCHOLOGIA 1962 G. R. Jordan, Jr.
In the March 1961 issue of Psychologia Dr. Wilson Van Dusen presented LSD as a new means of arriving at satori, the Zen experience of sudden enlightenment. He said that the use of LSD is a faster method than years of meditation and suggested that the drug "could perhaps be used in a monastery in conjunction with conventional Zen practices to facilitate the student's development. ... " (1). From...
December 1, 1958 Kyosho Hayashima
Asubha (Skt. Asubha) means 'impure' or 'impurity'. Especially in Buddhist meditation, the word asubha has been used for signifying a kind of meditation in which one should comprehend a corpse as impure and foul in order to eliminate one's own evil desires. The Theravada Buddhism says that the tenfold perception of impurity (dasa asubhasanna) (of the body) is to be obtained in observing ten...
The Journal of cardiovascular nursing Joanne Kraenzle Schneider, Chuntana Reangsing, Danny G Willis
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.13 billion people worldwide have hypertension. Although pharmaceutical management of blood pressure is available, there are reasons why people prefer not to take medications including costs, adverse effects, and lack of access. Nonpharmacological healthy lifestyle methods are needed. One alternative method is transcendental meditation (TM). The...
Home healthcare now Jala Sireesha, Jayasree Manukinda, Sudhindra Vooturi et al.
Progressive functional decline and behavioral disturbances in people with dementia place sustained emotional and practical demands on family caregivers, often resulting in chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and a high perceived caregiving burden. This pilot study examined the effects of an 8-week online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on psychological burden and well-being...
Holistic Nursing Practice Fatemeh Asadollah, Lida Nikfarid, Mahdieh Sabery et al.
Compassion fatigue is a common complication in nurses, which can lead to burnout, job dissatisfaction, and a decline in the quality of patient care. This study aimed to investigate the impact of loving-kindness meditation on compassion fatigue of nurses working in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This cluster-blinded randomized clinical trial study was conducted on 66 NICU nurses in 2...
The Journal of continuing education in the health professions Marie Loiselle, Carla L. Brown, Frederick Travis et al.
Burnout is pervasive among physicians and has widespread implications for individuals and institutions. This research study examines, for the first time, the effects of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on academic physician burnout and depression. A mixed methods randomized controlled trial was conducted with 40 academic physicians representing 15 specialties at a medical school and...
Psychosomatic Medicine Eileen Luders, Felipe A Jain, Florian Kurth
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that meditation may slow brain aging. The amygdala-a heterogenous brain region known to decrease in volume with increasing age-seems to be involved in meditation and affected by meditation. Thus, we hypothesized that the age-related decline of the amygdala is diminished in meditation practitioners. We investigated whether correlations between age...
Noise and Health Tao Chen, Haolei Niu, Yan Wang
Patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) frequently experience cancer-related fatigue (CRF), anxiety and depression during chemotherapy, significantly impairing their quality of life. This study evaluates the efficacy of the five-element music therapy combined with mindfulness meditation in alleviating CRF and psychological distress amongst DLBCL patients who are undergoing...
The Journal of cardiovascular nursing Angela Rao, Robert Zecchin, Phillip J Newton et al. 2 citations
Comorbid depression and/or anxiety symptoms occur in 25% of patients attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs and are associated with poorer prognosis. There is a need to evaluate psychological interventions, including meditation, that have potential to improve psychological health in CR programs. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a...
Nursing Education Perspectives Debra S Heinrich, Kathleen A O'Connell 29 citations
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a virtual mindfulness meditation intervention on stress and anxiety levels of 145 nursing students. Because of the twin demands of classroom and clinical workloads, nursing students experience greater amounts of stress and anxiety than the average college student. Mindfulness meditation is a promising method to alleviate stress and anxiety. A...