Prenatal mindfulness programs can improve mental health, yet access to and cultural and linguistic relevance of existing programs in the United States are limited for people who do not speak English and/or face major life stressors such as migration, housing instability, limited income, and racism. In response, mindfulness skills training drawn from Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting...
Buddhist Jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues appear wildly distinct. These spiritual techniques differ in their ethical, theological, and historical frames and seem, from the outside, to produce markedly different states of consciousness-one a state of utter calm and the other of high emotional arousal. Yet, our phenomenological interviews with experienced...
Mindfulness refers to the practice of consciously attending to the present moment without judgement. Although mindfulness-based intervention have been extensively researched. Less is known about the effect of this intervention on psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Thus, we synthesized the effects of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on psychotic symptoms,...
Social isolation and loneliness pose significant public health risks, especially among older adults experiencing age-related cognitive decline (ACD). This mixed methods feasibility study explored the potential of an online mindfulness-based dance/movement therapy (M-DMT) program to alleviate loneliness, enhance psychological well-being, and promote physical activity among older adults...
Background: Healthcare workers standing at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic faced many concurrent sources of anxiety including critically ill patients, nosocomial transmission, and physical exhaustion due to staffing shortages. Our multidisciplinary team recognized the urgent need to assess and support our healthcare providers during COVID-19 vaccine administration in hospital employees....
Suku Dayak Ngaju memiliki filosofi “huma betang” yang mencerminkan toleransi keberagaman. Toleransi dalam penelitian ini dijelaskan dalam konstruk Universal Diverse Orientation (UDO) yang tercermin pada filosofi huma betang di Suku Dayak Ngaju. Penelitian bertujuan menguji hubungan antara mindfulness dan UDO pada generasi Z dan generasi Y dari Suku Dayak Ngaju di Kota Palangka Raya menggunakan...
Latar Belakang: Remaja dalam tumbuh kembangnya memiliki tugas perkembangan. Namun, sebagian remaja tidak berhasil memenuhinya sehingga memicu munculnya distress. Distres menyebakan emosi negatif dan apabila tidak dikendalikan menyebabkan remaja melakukan self-harm. Self-harm adalah kondisi kegagalan mekanisme koping individu dalam menghadapi stres. Self-harm dilakukan remaja sebagai upaya untuk...
MindfulnessNovember 27, 2024Chunlei Ge, Yuhong Xie, Mei-Juan Sun et al.
The current study examined how brief mindfulness meditation training affects impulsive behaviors and their underlying mechanisms using a randomized controlled design with smartphone-based online interventions. A total of 70 participants who were identified with low level of mindfulness participated in the study. Participants were randomly assigned to three groups: mindfulness (monitor +...
Novel treatment approaches for Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) include the use of mindfulness and technology-based interventions. Mindfulness has been shown as a protective factor against IGD, but the treatment dropout rates are high due to long sessions and treatment duration. Pathological gamers show approach bias towards technological gadgets, and the inclusion of Virtual Reality has been...
Meditation is a mental training approach that can improve mental health and well-being in aging. Yet the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. The Medit-Ageing model stipulates that three mechanisms - attentional, constructive, and deconstructive - upregulate positive psycho-affective factors and downregulate negative ones. To test this hypothesis, we measured brain structural MRI and...