Cogent Mental Health
2025
Varnika Fnu, Divya Rajasekaran, Anamika Pilaniya et al.
Currently, healthcare professionals face challenges such as excessive stress, mental distress, psychiatric issues, and burnout. Contributors include various personal, professional, and environmental stressors such as prolonged work hours, high workload, patient care responsibility, information overload, and financial concerns. Stress and burnout can cause employee turnover, staffing shortages,...
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
2025
Kufre B. Usen, A. P. Etuk, James R. Sunday et al.
This paper is a systematic review of studies which aimed at improving mental health outcomes through meditation-based therapy. Specifically, this review sought to synthesize current evidences on the effect of meditation-based interventions on various mental states capable of confronting pregnant women, such as depression, anxiety, Stress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental...
SHS Web of Conferences
2025
Ruiyao Sun
Adolescent mental health problems have become a public health issue of social concern in re-cent years. Compared with traditional psychological intervention methods, mindfulness meditation, as a flexible and non-invasive intervention method, has shown its potential and has gradually become a research hotspot, providing a fresh viewpoint for mental health education and practice. This article...
Patient related outcome measures
2025
Jason Sheng, Brian Edward Yu, Maggie S Y Fong et al.
The primary objective of this study is to assess the feasibility of administering an online meditation program compared to usual care to glaucoma patients to improve mental health outcomes such as quality of life, depression, anxiety, and sleep quality. The secondary objective of this study is to improve mental health outcomes among glaucoma patients. This is a study protocol for a 12-week...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Tiankai Liang, Minkai Sun, Seiko Goto
After integrating with indigenous Chinese culture, Chinese Buddhist meditation traditions expanded beyond classical rock meditation to include new practices. This study examines the physiological and psychological effects of nature observation and literary creation within Chinese Buddhist meditation. Experiment 1 recruited 30 participants and used observation duration, heart rate, the Profile...
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Education
2025
This entry explores contemplative practices in legal pedagogy. It addresses how contemplative practices are defined, rationales for their incorporation into legal education, and challenges to the utilisation of such practices in the teaching of law. Emphasis is placed on the transformative potential of contemplative practices for law students and the value added to legal education in terms of...
Contemplative Praxis and Politics
2025
This chapter addresses the complex, mutually reinforcing relationship between contemplative practice, Black people&s;s engagement in contemplative practice, and Black politics. We consider contemplative practices sourced from various spiritual, religious, and secular traditions and reflect on how they integrate with political praxis. Our analysis draws from scholarship on Black contemplative...
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science
2025
Anuradha Sharma, Anuj Chauhan
Academic stress has become a significant challenge for students across all educational levels, often resulting in anxiety, burnout, reduced motivation, and impaired cognitive performance. The pressure to meet academic expectations, manage heavy workloads, and sustain high performance underscores the urgent need for effective stress-reduction strategies in education. Mindfulness—defined as...
Sub-cellular biochemistry
2025
Sabrina Venditti
Epigenetic mechanisms are key processes that constantly reshape genome activity carrying out physiological responses to environmental stimuli. Such mechanisms regulate gene activity without modifying the DNA sequence, providing real-time adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Both favorable and unfavorable lifestyles have been shown to influence body and brain by means of epigenetics,...
Clinics
2025
Zeeshan Solangi, Rachana Mehta, Ranjana Sah
Comment on "Role of meditation on the essence of self in the psychological profile, quality of life and lifestyle -a comparative study" Dear Editor,We read with great interest the study by Arantes et al., which explores the psychosocial correlates of Gurusakāsha, a third-phase meditative practice rooted in tantric philosophy, using a battery of validated psychological and lifestyle scales. 1...