Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal
December 31, 2020
Raychel Colangelo, Karyn Audet
Premised on cultivating present-moment awareness, mindfulness meditation (MM) programs have been shown to significantly reduce state-anxiety and improve cognitive performance in post-secondary students. With increasing popularity, briefer MM formats have been introduced to post-secondary institutions to combat the rising prevalence of student test-anxiety. However, research examining the...
December 31, 2020
Bryce Huebner
In this extended review, I provide a brief overview of Rick Repetti's arguments in Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom. I then propose that South Asian Buddhist philosophy should be seen as providing an alternative way of thinking about questions regarding freedom and agency. More specifically, I ague that there isn’t anything that a Buddhist must say about free...
Preprints.org
December 29, 2020
Carrie Heeter, Marcel Allbritton, Rebecca H Lehto et al.
preprint
Abstract: 1) Background. This research examined feasibility, acceptability and outcomes of delivering a 6-week yoga-based meditation intervention to clinical teams of hospice professionals (HPs) at a large non-profit hospice organization. The intervention was designed to increase mind-body integration and combat burnout. The manuscript was written for different audiences including research...
Elderly Health Journal
December 29, 2020
Peyman Hatamian, Seyed Kazem Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei
Introduction: This study aims to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and meta-cognitive therapy based on training on emotion regulation and anxiety sensitivity in elderly with precedent heart disease in Tehran city. Methods: This was an experimental study with pre-test & post-test and statistical population consisted of all elderly with precedent heart disease...
Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences
December 28, 2020
Adrian-Neculai Lăcătuș
Throughout the historical ages, man has sought to approach the Divinity in various ways: through fasting, prayer, meditation, etc. The states of asceticism reached by the Holy Fathers have remained a testimony and persist over the centuries. Not only in Christianity have such states been obtained, but in almost all religious traditions. Nowadays, man has not given up his relationship with God...
PLoS One
December 28, 2020
Sergio Hernández, Roberto Dorta‐Guerra, José Suero et al.
23 citations
OBJECTIVES: Our previous study showed that long-term practitioners of Sahaja Yoga Meditation (SYM) had around 7% larger grey matter volume (GMV) in the whole brain compared with healthy controls; however, when testing individual regions, only 5 small brain areas were statistically different between groups. Under the hypothesis that those results were statistically conservative, with the same...
Journal of Affective Disorders
December 27, 2020
Sonal Mathur, M. Sharma, S. Balachander et al.
BACKGROUND Recently, mindfulness-based therapies have emerged as a treatment modality for OCD, but there is sparse controlled data. We report the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in treating OCD in comparison with stress management training (SMT). METHODS 60 outpatients with DSM-IV-TR OCD attending a specialty OCD clinic were randomly assigned in 1:1 ratio to either MBCT...
Appetite
December 26, 2020
Ti Hsu, Catherine A Forestell
Emotional eating is defined as the tendency to increase food consumption in order to modify negative emotional states. Theories on emotional eating attribute its cause to inadequate emotion regulation, specifically an inability to draw awareness to and accept distress. Mindfulness, or the ability to pay attention to and accept internal and external experiences, is thought to attenuate the...
International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology
December 25, 2020
M. Krishnamurthy
In this work we study the mantra and Vedic chants used for meditation and convert them to time series with the frequency of 44100 Hertz. We then perform the mathematical and statistical analysis of these chants and compare these results with few of the popular known songs in Hindi, Kannada and Spanish/English. We also consider the Tirumala temple bell sound for our analysis and study. We...
Global Advances in Health and Medicine
December 23, 2020
Dawson Church, Peta Stapleton, Debbie Sabot
Background: A growing body of clinical research attests to the psychological and physiological benefits of meditation. EcoMeditation is a non-pharmacological therapeutic approach used to promote health and well-being, comprising four evidence-based techniques: The Quick Coherence Technique for regulating heart rate variability (HRV), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), mindfulness, and...