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Effect of alternate nostril breathing and meditation practices on stress and aggression among the university women students

International Journal of Physiology, Nutrition and Physical Education 2021 A. Amrutha, Dr. S Alagesan

Yoga is an effective complementary approach to health maintenance and promotion for College women and has been demonstrated to support many dimensions of psychological wellbeing, from everyday stress to anxiety, aggression, and coping with health challenges. The Purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effect of Alternate Nostril Breathing and Meditation practices on...

Mindfulness and leadership

2021 Paul L. Brackmann 1 citation

The impact that mindfulness can have on a person's wellbeing and empathy has been studied and well documented. The need for leaders to be emotionally intelligent and relationally focused has also been documented in the field of leadership studies. This narrative study interviewed eight organizational leaders who have an established mindful practice. The researcher explored the challenges and...

Mindfulness Meditation Based on Spiritual Care to Reduce Community Anxiety due to the Impact of Pandemic Coronavirus Disease

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 2021 Siti Nur Hasina, Iis Noventi, PH Livana et al.

BACKGROUND: The spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread throughout the world and has created a level of fear, uncertainty that has an impact on several aspects of life including mental health. The rapid spread of the Corona Virus or COVID-19 throughout the world has damaged the order of life starting from the economy, social, politics, education, culture, religion and health....

Does mindfulness intervention improve quality of life in adults with non-malignant chronic pain

2021 Nikolay Kondratyev

Chronic pain is a significant problem that negatively affects quality of life resulting in distress, disability, and inappropriate prescription of analgesics. Primary care providers need evidence for non-pharmaceutical tools, such as mindfulness-based intervention, to manage the complexities of chronic pain. The purpose of this integrative literature review is to investigate the impact...

DOI: 10.24124/2021/59189 (opens in new tab) Mindfulness Chronic pain Intervention counseling Distress +5

Alterations of regional cerebral glucose metabolism using18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography and electroencephalography analysis during mindfulness breathing in Anapanasati meditation: A preliminary analysis.

World journal of nuclear medicine 2021 Chanisa Chotipanich, Supatporn Tepmongkol, Yodchanan Wongsawat et al.

Anapanasati is a core meditation of a breath-centered practice in the Buddhist Theravada tradition, which may have some neurological mechanism effects on the brain. To gain insight into the neurological mechanisms involved in Anapanasati meditation, we measured the alterations of regional cerebral glucose metabolism during Anapanasati meditation using positron-emission tomography/computed...

DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_94_20 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Anapanasati meditation Electroencephalography Positron-emission tomography

Leading from the inside Out: Contemplative Practice as Radical Self-care for BIPOC Activists

Journal of Women Politics and Policy 2021

This article contributes to scholarship focused on the contemplative justice movement. The study analyzes the experiences of BIPOC activists engaged in contemplative practice through the Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program in Oakland, California. Utilizing a Black feminist power analysis, I interpret theories of social change and organizational affiliations among these activists to...

Meditation and the Wandering Mind: A Theoretical Framework of Underlying Neurocognitive Mechanisms.

Perspectives on Psychological Science 2021 Tracy Brandmeyer, Arnaud Delorme

During the practice of meditation, the tendency of the mind to wander away from the object of focus is ubiquitous. The occurrence of mind wandering in the context of meditation provides individuals a unique and intimate opportunity to closely examine the nature of the wandering mind by cultivating an awareness of ongoing thought patterns, while simultaneously aiming to cultivate equanimity...

Cogenerating insights into the dialectics of contemplative practices in educational and lifeworld settings.

Cultural Studies of Science Education 2021 Grant Zouch, Joanna Higgins, Suskya Goodall et al.

Contemplative practices are used with increasing frequency across various fields of knowledge, and increasingly so within educational settings as a means of promoting wellness and wellbeing. In this paper, we draw on qualitative data derived from primary students' experiences of meditative breathing and use them as a springboard to extrapolate meaning and cogenerate novel insights around...