BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
July 28, 2023
Chuntana Reangsing, Pimkanabhon Trakooltorwong, Kunnara Maneekunwong et al.
Background: An increasing number of studies have documented the effectiveness on various types of face-to-face and online mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in reducing anxiety among general population, but there is a scarcity of systematic reviews evaluating evidence of online MBIs on anxiety in adults. Therefore, we examined the effects of online mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on...
Indonesian Journal Of Educational Research and Review
July 27, 2023
Aulia Suhesty, Miranti Rasyid, Diah Daniswara Rahayu et al.
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Anxiety is normal for every human being so that it is expected that every individual has the ability of mindfulness to reduce the anxiety that will be faced. Importance of mindfulness to reduce anxiety in college students. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the influence of mindfulness to reduce anxiety in new students. The research design used was a pretest-posttest test control...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
July 27, 2023
Meghan E Ficarra
Purpose: To evaluate the impact of an abbreviated (4-week) and asynchronous, mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on nurses' perceived stress and mindful attention and awareness. Design: An evidence-based quality improvement pilot program. Methods: The participants (n = 15 nurses) attended a 4-week, asynchronous MBI. The participants attended a 90-minute webinar on mindfulness as a...
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences
July 27, 2023
Raoying Wang, Lili Zhu, Xiaohan Liu et al.
Objective: To investigate the differences between meditation and resting states using infrared thermal imaging (IRTI) to determine facial temperature distribution features during meditation and annotate the patterns of facial temperature changes during meditation from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine facial diagnosis. Methods: Each participant performed 10 min meditation and 10...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
July 27, 2023
Paulina Clara Dagnino, Javier A. Galadí, Estela Càmara et al.
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Contemplative neuroscience has increasingly explored meditation using neuroimaging. However, the brain mechanisms underlying meditation remain elusive. Here, we implemented a causal mechanistic framework to explore the spatiotemporal dynamics of expert meditators during meditation and rest. We first applied a model-free approach by defining a probabilistic metastable substate (PMS) space for...
July 26, 2023
Wazir C Vasudeva
Yoga is a psycho-somatic-spiritual discipline for achieving union and harmony between our mind, body, and soul and the ultimate union of our individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. There are certain elements of meditation which should be achieved before sitting for meditation and are described. Transcendental meditation (TM) is one of the techniques of meditation, which...
Aging & Mental Health
July 26, 2023
Xiaoxia Xie, Xingyong Qiao, Chien-Chung Huang et al.
Objectives: Drawing from the mindfulness framework and the broaden-and-build theory, this study investigates the extent to which mindfulness influences loneliness and whether the relation is mediated by positive and negative affect.Method: Data were collected from 748 retired older adults aged 60 and above in Chengdu, China in 2022. Loneliness and mindfulness were measured by the UCLA...
Journal of Medical Internet Research
July 26, 2023
Sarita Silveira, Malvika Godara, Tania Singer
Contemplative trainings have been found to effectively improve social skills such as empathy and compassion. However, there is a lack of research on the efficacy of app-delivered mindfulness-based and dyadic practices in boosting socioaffective capacity. The first aim of this study was to compare a novel app-delivered, partner-based socioemotional intervention (Affect Dyad) with...
Mortality
July 25, 2023
Gagan Jain
ABSTRACT The widespread mortality caused by the second wave of COVID created a sense of death salience world over. Past literature suggests that reminder of one’s own mortality produces death anxiety in a person. The present study intends to see the effect of mindfulness meditation as a moderating variable on death anxiety. For this, the participants (n = 42; 25 male, 17 female) were randomly...
Journal of American College Health
July 25, 2023
Jesse Honsky, Marjorie N Edguer, Elizabeth R. Click et al.
Objective: The aims of this pilot study were: first, to assess the impact of a brief classroom-based mindfulness program on students' reported levels of mindfulness, well-being, and stress; and, second, to understand students' experiences of participating in the program.Participants: Students at a private midwestern research-intensive university, 133 (16%) students completed either the study's...