Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
2022
Sara Jo Emmerich
Moral injury is a soul struggle for many veterans. It includes a deep sense of regret, shame, and division within themselves due to morally injurious events. Spiritual practices like Centering Prayer are complementary disciplines that help veterans heal from moral injury and process embedded trauma, guilt, and shame. Contemplative practices can help with acceptance of difficult emotions and...
Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry
2022
Pakamon Jongpipittaporn, Kawin Sipiyaruk, Naiyana Buranachad
This study explored perceptions of dental postgraduates regarding the impact of contemplative practice in a patient care aspect. The qualitative research approach using semi-structured interview was employed. Postgraduate students from the General Dentistry Residency Training Program were selected by purposive sampling by considering sex and working experience. The retrieved data were...
International Journal of Yoga
2022
Ampere A Tseng
Mantra meditation (MM) is one of the simplest and most effective meditative practices suitable for both novice and skillful meditators. It has attracted a significant number of practitioners for various health benefits or for spiritual inspiration. The scope of this review article focuses on the examination of the health benefits of practicing MM without considering the motivation by spiritual...
Current Psychology
2022
Motohide Miyahara, Rebekah Wilson, Tessa Pocock et al.
Despite the widespread popularity of mindfulness meditation for its various benefits, the mechanism underlying the meditation process has rarely been explored. Here, we present two preliminary studies designed to test alternative hypotheses: whether the effect of brief guided mindfulness meditation on empathic concern arises from verbal suggestion (suggestion hypothesis) or as a byproduct of an...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Jennifer S Mascaro, Marianne P Florian, Marcia J Ash et al.
Over the last decade, numerous interventions and techniques that aim to engender, strengthen, and expand compassion have been created, proliferating an evidence base for the benefits of compassion meditation training. However, to date, little research has been conducted to examine individual variation in the learning, beliefs, practices, and subjective experiences of compassion meditation. This...
International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications
2022
Julia Surya, Mungin Eddy Wibowo
---Mindfulness has become an increasingly visible part of the landscape in psychology and medicine in the past several decades. Only recently has this same interest in mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) approach appeared in counseling. This article provides a brief synopsis of the mindfulness literature and explores the theoretical and practical of mindfulness and the...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Fang Zhou et al.
Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) was first practiced by Buddhists and then developed by clinical psychologist. Previous studies on LKM have mainly focused on the impact of real person-guided meditation on depression, anxiety, and other negative psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the effect and mechanism of media-guided LKM on the improvement of social presence,...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Teresa Fazia, Francesco Bubbico, Andrea Nova et al.
To limit the first spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, the Italian government imposed strict lockdown measures to the population. Despite necessary to reduce the virus transmission and the burden to the hospitals, social isolation has caused detrimental effects on psychological wellbeing and mental health. Moreover, during this period, it was also difficult to deliver psychological treatments and...
International Journal of Yoga
2022
Dwivedi Krishna, Krishna Prasanna, Basavaraj Angadi et al.
Heartfulness meditation (HM) has been shown to have positive impacts on cognition and well-being, which makes it important to look into the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the phenomenon. A cross-sectional study was conducted on HM meditators and nonmeditators to assess frontal electrical activities of the brain and self-reported anxiety and mindfulness. The present study employed a...
Advances in Medical Education and Practice
2022
Hossam Alhawatmeh, Mohammad J Rababa, Mahmoud A. Alfaqih et al.
Purpose Mindfulness meditation was used to reduce stress and its responses such as cortisol and C-reactive protein (CRP) among healthy and ill individuals in various cultures, but its effect has not yet been studied among nursing students, experiencing tremendous stress. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of mindfulness meditation on trait mindfulness, perceived stress,...