Shunta Maeda, Ren Fujisawa, Takumi Uchiyama et al.
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Objective: Loving-kindness meditation has been shown to improve positive and negative mental health outcomes; however, its effectiveness, when provided in a self-help format, has not been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, this study examined the effectiveness of a 2-week online program on self-help loving-kindness meditation by comparing it with mindfulness meditation and active control...
Xinyi Li, Wenzhou Huang, Zetong Hua et al.
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Second-generation mindfulness-based interventions (SG-MBIs) emphasize the explicit integration of philosophical topics and incorporate various meditation practices, such as loving-kindness and compassion meditation (LKCM). LKCM involves philosophical discussions concerning views of human nature, which may facilitate the cultivation of prosocial attitudes; however, the effects of such...
Leonardo Christov-Moore, Félix Schoeller, Mathilda Von Guttenberg et al.
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Understanding and facilitating access to non-ordinary experiences that can promote mental health and wellbeing is a growing focus of clinical and basic research. . Previous work has revealed the mood-augmenting, belief-altering, and self-transcendent effects of aesthetic-chills-inducing audiovisual stimulation, as a putative “technodelic.” The current study investigated how a guided loving...
Elizaveta Solomonova, Simon Dubé, Arnaud Samson-Richer et al.
Vipassana meditation is characterized by observing bodily sensations, developing emotional and attentional stability and promoting pro-social qualities. Whether these qualities are also reflected in dream content is not currently known. Evidence relating dream content with sleep-depending learning is mixed: some studies suggest that dreaming of a task is beneficial for improvement, while others...
Elizaveta Solomonova, Simon Dubé, Cloé Blanchette-Carrière et al.
Study objectives: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and sleep spindles are all implicated in the consolidation of procedural memories. The relative contributions of sleep stages and sleep spindles was previously shown to depend on individual differences in task processing. Experience with Vipassana meditation is one such individual difference that has not been...
Suvosree Bhattacharya, Pritha Mukhopadhyay
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Abstract Background Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) have shown effectiveness in anxiety disorders with most studies suggesting moderate level of efficacy. Majority of the studies are based on outcome and efficacy measures of intervention. Enough attention on the process of intervention and mechanism of change in MBI has not been widely explored. In this context, the present study focused...
Nhat Chi Mai
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Introduction: An individual’s level of mindfulness can predict his/her level of general health, anxiety, and anger. If we have a valuable tool for measuring mindfulness, we can predict such factors more concisely. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare a narrowband and a broadband mindfulness scale in predicting the level of general health, anxiety, and anger in a general population.
Thorsten Barnhofer
In many patients, depression takes a recurrent or chronic course in which maintaining mechanisms become increasingly engrained, and repeated stress translates into significant changes in biological functioning. The introduction of mindfulness training has brought a paradigmatically new approach to the treatment of persistent courses of depression that promises to counter such mechanisms and...
Thalia D.M. Stalmeier, Jelle Lubbers, Mira B. Cladder-Micus et al.
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Abstract Background: Negative self-referential processing has fruitfully been studied in unipolar depressed patients, but remarkably less in patients with bipolar disorder (BD). This study examines the relation between task-based self-referential processing and depressive symptoms in BD and their possible importance to the working mechanism of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for...
Jan Wardęszkiewicz, Paweł Holas, Gerhard Andersson
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Abstract Background Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (iMBCT) is a promising intervention for mental health, but its effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms remains underexplored. While key mechanisms of change have been identified in traditional MBCT, their role in online delivery formats needs further investigation. Methods In this randomized clinical trial, 170 individuals...