Psychology and Mental Health Care
February 27, 2024
Delaram Dehnashi
Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease, can significantly impact a person's daily functioning and overall well-being. Patients often experience emotional disorders and find it challenging to regulate their cognitive-emotional responses during the course of their illness. The objective of this current study was to evaluate the impact of MBSR training on quality of life of patients with...
JPNM Jurnal Pustaka Nusantara Multidisiplin
February 26, 2024
Penelitian ini mengkaji efektivitas Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) dalam pengelolaan stres, menyoroti urgensi pembahasan ini dalam konteks kehidupan sehari-hari. Stres yang semakin meluas dalam masyarakat modern membutuhkan pendekatan holistik, dan MBSR telah muncul sebagai metode yang menjanjikan. Tujuan utama penelitian ini adalah mengevaluasi sejauh mana MBSR memengaruhi...
Journal of Education, Health and Sport
February 24, 2024
Julia Szymonik, Sebastian Szopa
Introduction: In today's fast-paced life, an increasing number of people are experiencing chronic stress, which negatively impacts our mental and physical health, leading to troublesome conditions such as primary headaches. Faced with this challenge, more individuals are turning their attention to mindfulness techniques as an effective tool for stress management. In light of this, mindfulness,...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
February 23, 2024
Wazir C Vasudeva, Vidushi Vasudeva
The word meditation is derived from a Latin word ‘madri’ which means “to heal”. Meditation can certainly be considered as a great healing process - spiritual, mental, and emotional - with proven benefits to physical well-being. In the current communication, an attempt has been made to explain some of these benefits and provide science based evidence to explain them. Meditation develops our...
British Journal of Pain
February 23, 2024
Callum Gray, Fergal Jones, Alessio Agostinis et al.
1 citation
Purpose of the Study: Research indicates that acquiring compassion is an integral part to positive outcomes to Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI), yet there is both theoretic and empirical literature suggesting that people with persistent pain are more likely to experience challenges and distress when engaging compassion-based practices. Mindfulness for Health is a standardised MBI for...
Indonesian Journal of Community Health Nursing
February 22, 2024
Ita Apriliyani, Rahmawati Arni Nur, Maryanto Maryanto
Introduction: Single-parent adolescents are often prone to depression. Depression itself is a natural disorder of feelings, emotions that a child or teenager can experience during the ransition from children to adults which is theresult of separation or loss of parents either due to divorce or death. Mindfulness can serve to increase one's sensitivity to understand current events. Method: This...
Journal of Intelligence
February 21, 2024
Hao Yao, Yabing Fan, Shifei Duan
9 citations
Creativity is a universal core higher-order cognitive ability in the 21st century, which reflects a country's core competitiveness and soft power. Mindfulness, as an important concept in positive psychology, has also received attention for its potential effect on research creativity. Using structural equation modeling and bootstrap methods, this study investigated the relationship between...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Richard J. C. Dixey, Ronald E. Purser
Mindfulness meditation can provide salutary therapeutic benefits, as well as lead advanced practitioners to states of calm and equanimity. In this paper, we argue that such forms of meditation may subtly entrap practitioners in circular, self-reflexive feedback loops. Because these meditation traps fail to clearly discern the operations of mind, they offer a temporary oasis of peace within an...
Stress
February 20, 2024
Yaxin Fan, Yifen Cui, Rongxiang Tang et al.
AbstractStress is an established risk factor for negative health outcomes. Salivary cortisol and testosterone concentrations increase in response to acute psychosocial stress. It’s crucial to reduce stress for health and well-being through evidence-based interventions. Body-mind interventions such as meditation and Tai Chi have shown reduced cortisol levels but mixed results in testosterone...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Michael R. Sheehy
A classic set of eight similes of illusion (sgyu ma’i dpe brgyad) are employed recurrently throughout Indian and Tibetan Buddhist literature to illustrate the operations of cognition, its correlative perceptions, and experiences that emerge. To illustrate a Buddhist psychology of metaphor, the fourteenth century Tibetan scholar and synthesizer of the Dzogchen (rdzogs chen) or Great Perfection...