HealthcareSeptember 5, 2025Aglaia Zafeiroudi, Ioannis Tsartsapakis, Ioannis Trigonis et al.
Background/Objectives: Mindfulness has expanded from seated meditation to include embodied practices emphasizing somatic awareness and emotional regulation. Dance offers a creative, accessible pathway to mindfulness, especially in non-clinical settings where movement-based approaches may better support self-regulation, interoception, and well-being. This scoping review investigated empirical...
Intuitive inquiry meditation (Can-Hua-Tou) is a unique mental practice which differs from relaxation-based practices by continuously demanding intuitive inquiry. It emphasizes the doubt-driven self-interrogation, also referred to as Chan/Zen meditation. Nonetheless, its electrophysiological signature remains poorly characterized. We recorded 128-channel EEG from 20 male Buddhist monks (5-28...
This commentary examines the relevance of the Brahmaviharas —loving-kindness (Metta), compassion (Karuna), sympathetic joy (Mudita), and equanimity (Upekkha) —within Buddhist philosophy as a culturally grounded framework for wellbeing and emotional resilience in the Cambodian context. Integrated into clinical teaching, these virtues can contribute to better patient outcomes and the future...
Lansia dengan diabetes melitus mempunyai tingkat kesejahteraan psikologis dan kualitas hidup yang cenderung rendah. Pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesejahteran psikologis dan kualitas hidup lansia penderita diabetes melitus melalui intervensi mindfulness meditation. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat dilaksanakan di Desa Pangkatrejo Kecamatan Lamongan Kabupaten Lamongan....
Objectives: No participant-rated tool exists for assessing MBI teaching competence. This study aimed to develop and validate the MBI:PAT to address this limitation. The primary objective was to develop a new measure, the Mindfulness-based Interventions: Participants' Assessment of Teaching" (MBI:PAT), and to evaluate its psychometric properties across several studies using independent samples....
Hipertensi pada dewasa awal menjadi tantangan kesehatan yang semakin sering ditemukan, terutama dikaitkan dengan faktor stres akibat beban kerja, akademik, maupun tekanan keluarga. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi efektivitas Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) dalam menurunkan stres pada dewasa awal dengan hipertensi. Penelitian menggunakan desain studi kasus kualitatif dengan...
Meditation is often linked to feelings of positivity and better mental health, but the real reasons behind these improvements are still being explored. In our project, we focused on how meditation might affect the brain, especially through the idea of activating the seven chakras in the body. Chakras are described as energy points that can influence a person's physical, emotional, and mental...
Background: Polysubstance use is common in alcohol use disorder (AUD) and associated with poor treatment outcomes. Cannabis and cocaine often co-used with alcohol, have no approved medication treatments and respond poorly to common behavioral treatments. Thus, treatments that can reduce use of these substances alongside AUD are critically needed. Objectives: We tested whether...
Virtual RealitySeptember 2, 2025Mengru Liu, Anthony Kong, Fuxuebing Huang et al.8 citations
With the advancement of digital technology, mindfulness practices have evolved beyond traditional methods into immersive, interactive, and biofeedback-supported experiences. This study proposes the Systematic Progressive Exploration Methodology (SPEM) to examine technology-assisted mindfulness, narrowing its focus from 3,053 peer-reviewed publications (publication trends and disciplinary...
This chapter concerns the temporal phenomenology of transcendental meditation experiences. Meditators describe the phenomenology of such experiences as continuous but timeless. I shall suggest and evaluate five different interpretations of this perplexing characterization. Exploring non-ordinary mental states such as those realized by transcendental meditation techniques promises novel insights...