Filipino learners face rising emotional, psychological, and social challenges that hinder academic success and personal growth. The Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) and Values Education Curriculum provides a foundation for fostering moral integrity, empathy, and social responsibility through contemplative practices that are aligned with Filipino cultural values. This chapter explores how...
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) report increased stress and anxiety in comparison to their peers, which may result in out-of-range glycemic outcomes. Complementary therapies such as mindfulness may improve stress and anxiety. However, mindfulness training is mostly delivered in-person for adolescents. As adolescents with T1D are high consumers of technology, with busy schedules that...
Third wave meditation research-the study of advanced meditation-investigates states, stages, and endpoints of meditation practice that emerge with increasing mastery. We review current neuroscientific progress, outline future research directions, and highlight far-reaching implications of this emerging scientific subfield.
Making moral decisions is a critical skill for management students in the fast-paced commercial world of today. However, kids' moral judgment is frequently impacted by growing academic pressure, competition, and exposure to unethical behavior. This study uses a descriptive research design to investigate how Rajyoga meditation helps management students make moral decisions. The study is based on...
Stressful working conditions continue to impact teacher shortages in special education. Although systemic changes are necessary to improve special educators’ experiences in schools, offering explicit instruction on stress-reducing strategies in special education teacher preparation programs may support special educators’ flourishing/comprehensive well-being and reduce burnout, thereby reducing...
Lumbini PrabhaMay 5, 2026Mukti Prasad Pandey, Dilli Raj Aryal
This study evaluates the effects of Vipassanā meditation courses conducted in Nepalese prisons between February 2022 and April 2024. This study is undertaken to address the lack of systematic evidence on the effectiveness of Vipassanā meditation in promoting measurable and sustained behavioral reform among prisoners in Nepal. Primary and secondary data are used to evaluate whether Vipassanā...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual (LGB+) individuals experience heightened psychopathology compared to heterosexual counterparts, including suicidal ideation (SI). Previous research has indicated risks of avoidant coping and protective effects of mindfulness on these disparities. We examined how these factors contribute to differences in SI among college students (n = 927, 124...
Background: Shift-working nurses face significant disruption to circadian rhythms and sleep architecture, resulting in high rates of shift work disorder (SWD) and impaired sleep quality. Online mindfulness-based brief interventions (MBIs) offer an accessible, scalable, and cost-effective approach to address these occupational sleep challenges. However, the evidence base remains heterogeneous...
Objetivos: La Escala de Atención y Conciencia Plena de Cinco Ítems (MAAS-5, en inglés) es una medida de autoinforme de atención plena que ha demostrado fiabilidad y validez en varios países. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha, ningún estudio ha examinado específicamente la invariancia de la medición (IM) de la MAAS-5 en países latinoamericanos, lo que limita su comparabilidad. Por lo tanto, nos...
Background: Spiritual and psychotic experiences share overlapping phenomenology, often making clinical differentiation challenging. The growing use of advanced meditation and psychedelics has further blurred this boundary. Methods: A retrospective case series was conducted at the Department of Integrative Medicine,of a tertiary care mental health facility in India. Four individuals presenting...