2021 International Conference on Intelligent Technologies
June 25, 2021
Swati Kamthekar, Brijesh Iyer
Imbalance of any behavioral pattern and conditions gives rise to stress. Continuous retention of stressed conditions may result in serious health issues such as chronic disease, mental disorder, depression, anxiety, and worse quality of life. As conventional medication causes severe side effects, complementary and alternative medicines are in the highest demand for stress reduction. The paper...
Clinical Social Work Journal
June 24, 2021
Adam W. Hanley, Vincent Dehili, Deidre Krzanowski et al.
Interest in mindfulness meditation continues to grow as accumulating evidence suggests mindfulness training encourages more positive functioning. However, basic questions about the conditions best suited for realizing mindful states remain unanswered. Prominent among these is whether a group mindfulness practice setting is more effective for novice meditators than a solitary practice setting....
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
June 24, 2021
To be mindful of the breath or pain: Comparing two brief preoperative mindfulness techniques for total joint arthroplasty patients.
JMIR Biomedical Engineering
June 24, 2021
Henry Fu, Bernie Garrett, Gordon Tao et al.
Background Mindfulness-based stress reduction has demonstrated some efficacy for chronic pain management. More recently, virtual reality (VR)–guided meditation has been used to assist mindfulness-based stress reduction. Although studies have also found electroencephalograph (EEG) changes in the brain during mindfulness meditation practices, such changes have not been demonstrated during...
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June 23, 2021
Lars‐gunnar Lundh
The present paper argues that if the so-called mindfulness movement is to reach its full potential it needs to emancipate from its religious context and ally itself fully with psychological science. The argument that mindfulness meditation needs a religious context for ethical reasons is untenable. Although mindfulness skills may well be used for un-ethical purposes, this applies equally to...
Clinical obstetrics and gynecology
June 23, 2021
S. Babbar, Alejandro J Oyarzabal, E. Oyarzabal
Given their growing popularity, mindfulness practices including meditation are actively being studied in clinical trials to assess their efficacy at improving health outcomes during pregnancy and the postpartum period. We conducted a literature review to compile these studies and assessed their findings. There is sufficient evidence to support the practice of mindfulness practices in pregnancy...
Holistic Nursing Practice
June 23, 2021
Kusman Ibrahim, Maria Komariah, Yusshy Kurnia Herliani
14 citations
The study aims to test the effect of mindfulness breathing meditation on psychological well-being among nurses working for COVID-19 patients. A total of 50 nurses (25 each in the intervention and control groups) were included in the study. We found significant differences between the preintervention and postintervention mean scores of both groups, based on the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental...
Science, Technology & Human Values
June 22, 2021
Johannes Bruder
This paper analyzes notions and models of optimized cognition emerging at the intersections of psychology, neuroscience, and computing. What I somewhat polemically call the algorithms of mindfulness describes an ideal that determines algorithmic techniques of the self, geared at emotional resilience and creative cognition. A reframing of rest, exemplified in corporate mindfulness programs and...
Current Psychology
June 21, 2021
Haley McKeen, M. Hook, Purnaja Podduturi et al.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been associated with a variety of negative physical and psychological health outcomes. The mechanisms by which this occurs and potential protective factors present in this relationship are understudied. Mindfulness is a cognitive resource that may protect individuals against symptoms of psychological distress. It has five core facets and encourages a...
Brain Sciences
June 21, 2021
Ohad Nave, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Yochai Ataria et al.
91 citations
A fundamental aspect of the sense of self is its pre-reflective dimension specifying the self as a bounded and embodied knower and agent. Being a constant and tacit feature structuring consciousness, it eludes robust empirical exploration. Recently, deep meditative states involving global dissolution of the sense of self have been suggested as a promising path for advancing such an...