To reach longer-term goals and live aligned with their values, people typically must regulate their behavior. Effortful self-control is one way to achieve this and is usually framed as a forceful struggle between lower-level impulses and higher-level cognitive control processes. For example, people may restrain themselves from eating cake in order to lose weight. An alternative avenue of...
Anesthesiologists and intensivists are modern-day professionals who provide appropriate respiratory care, vital for patient survival. Recently, anesthesiologists have increasingly focused their attention on the type of spontaneous breathing made by non-intubated patients with pulmonary disease cared for in an intensive care unit, and also patients with chronic pain receiving cognitive...
Background: Compassion-based interventions delivered over the internet are showing promising results for the promotion of psychological health and well-being. Several studies have highlighted their feasibility, acceptance, and preliminary efficacy. However, this is an incipient field of research, and to the best of our knowledge, there are no data available from Spanish-speaking countries....
The ability to decenter from internal experiences is important for mental health. Consequently, improving decentering is a common therapeutic target, particularly for mindfulness-based interventions. However, extant decentering measures are limited as they fail to directly assess all 3 metacognitive processes recently theorized to subserve decentering. We thus conducted 4 studies to develop and...
The article presents an action research work developed with the cello class of a conservatory with the intention of studying the benefits of yoga and meditation in the learning of an instrument and in the management of some problems inherent to music students, such as musculoskeletal disorders and stage anxiety. The results are intended to help improve teaching practice, distancing musical...
Verbal instructions provided during yoga classes can differ substantially. Yoga instructors might choose to focus on the physical aspects of yoga (e.g., by emphasizing the characteristics of the poses), or they might take a more spiritual approach (e.g., by mentioning energy flow and chakras). The present study investigated the effects of verbal cues during yoga practice on various...
EEG theta (4–7 Hz) activity is closely related to hypnosis and hypnotic analgesia, as well as to meditation and absorption. Research further indicates that theta oscillatory power is involved in different cognitive functions, such as spatial navigation, memory, creativity, and divided attention. The current manuscript will provide a synthesis of current knowledge regarding the importance of...
We first review recent work from our laboratory, which construes hypnotizability as an example of a more general trait of capacity for phenomenological control, which people can use to create subjective experiences in many nonhypnotic contexts where those experiences fulfill people's goals. Second, we review recent work, which construes phenomenological control as a specifically metacognitive...
Mind-body medicine (MBM) is based on the assumption that interactions between the brain, mind, body, and behavior can be used to activate health-promoting pathways towards better health. It includes behavioral medical approaches and techniques in conjunction with exercise, relaxation, stress regulation, and nutrition. MBM and MBM interventions are well-established in the US healthcare system....
Psychology today stands at a threshold. After a century of remarkable discoveries, it remains marked by fragmentation: cognition is studied apart from emotion, behavior apart from intention, and clinical methods apart from the cultural and ecological worlds in which persons live. What is often missing is a science that treats the human being as an indivisible whole. This paper introduces...