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Bombay Hospital Journal February 5, 2022 Sudhir V Shah
Background For thousands of years, people have been meditating. Meditation is one of the greatest gifts to humanity from ancient sages. It was created to aid in the comprehension of life's sacred and mystical powers and to connect to the higher consciousness. Meditation is widely utilized these days for relaxation and stress reduction and a way to get relief from physical illness and mental...
Children February 4, 2022 Adam Koncz, Reka Kassai, Zsolt Demetrovics et al.
(1) Background: Executive functions are important for academic performance and school readiness. Children's executive function skills are found to be improved by mindfulness-based interventions, and these programs are also effective in stress reduction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and the effects of a short mindfulness-based relaxation training compared to a passive...
Personality and Individual Differences February 4, 2022 Jenna M Wilson, Carin A Colebaugh, K Mikayla Flowers et al.
Although an inverse relation between social support and psychological distress among chronic pain patients has been previously reported, little is known about what mediates this association. We examined mindfulness as a mediator of the relationship between social support and psychological distress. In this cross-sectional study, chronic pain patients (N=94) completed assessments of social...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology February 3, 2022 Jia-Yuan Zhang, Sha‐sha Li, Li-na Meng et al.
ABSTRACT Background With the development of positive psychology, posttraumatic growth research on cancer patients has attracted increasing attention from researchers. It is immensely important to effectively increase the posttraumatic growth level of cancer patients and improve their quality of life. Objectives To investigate the effectiveness of a nurse-led mindfulness-based Tai Chi Chuan...
Psychological Reports February 3, 2022 Kyriaki Giannou, Karen Lander, Jason R. Taylor 6 citations
Recent research has employed measures of either empathy, compassion or mindfulness and linked better face recognition memory to higher scores of identification with all humanity and mindfulness but not empathy or compassion. Additionally, empathy, compassion and mindfulness have been suggested as concepts that intertwine, but research has not yet examined how their respective personality...
Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry February 2, 2022 4 citations
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of disease burden globally. Sleep and cardiovascular connection represent a two-way lane. Recently, many reports have suggested that meditation practices have a beneficial effect on cardiovascular diseases. But the exact mechanism was not known. Several reports suggest that meditation induces the secretion of melatonin. The rhythm of melatonin...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health February 2, 2022 Joohyun Kim, Miji Kim, Miran Jang et al.
(1) Background: The effect of Juingong meditation on brainwave patterns has not been explored yet. This study aimed to study the changes in brainwave patterns produced by Juingong meditation, through electroencephalography (EEG) measurements. (2) Methods: The study included 23 participants from the Hanmaum Seon Center in Korea. EEG measurements were performed using InteraXon's four-channel EEG...
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders February 1, 2022 E. Duraney, B. Schirda, J. Nicholas et al.
OBJECTIVES Emotion dysregulation plays a role in the development and maintenance of psychopathology. Given the higher rates of mood disturbances in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), there is a need to explore the relationships between metrics of emotion dysregulation and potential protective traits. Mindfulness, a multi-faceted trait characteristic reflecting present moment awareness, is...
Personality and Individual Differences February 1, 2022 Amelia Jones, M. Hook, Purnaja Podduturi et al.
Abstract Social media engagement has been inconsistently linked to depression and it is important to determine whether specific motivations for engagement are linked to depression and what the mechanisms may be. This study investigated five factors of mindfulness as potential mediators between behavioral, affective, and cognitive social media engagement and depression. Participants (between 17...
Mindfulness February 1, 2022 Kaitlyn M. Butterfield, Kim P. Roberts
Abstract: Objectives: The effects of a 6-week mindfulness program were examined to assess how executive function level played a role in students’ mindful experience. The effects of the mindfulness program were evaluated according to prospective outcomes across students’ level of executive function, in comparison to an active control group. Methods: Classrooms were randomly assigned to a...