Mindfulness
September 1, 2020
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Abstract A case study of the descriptions of the progress of Buddhist insight meditation provided by Daniel Ingram shows how a forceful form of mindfulness combined with high-speed mental noting can result in the construction of meditative experiences to accord with expectations created by maps of the progress of insight, culminating in claims to having reached levels of awakening. The...
Studies in Psychology
September 1, 2020
Luis Heredia, Margarita Torrente, Paloma Vicens
7 citations
Identification of the basic competencies needed to address the challenges that today’s society presents has always been central to educational research. Contemplative education is a recent field of research that is based on the development of spiritual competence in educational contexts. Its purpose is to promote useful social and personal skills to foster a more aware, harmonious and...
August 31, 2020
Hee-sook Kwon, Mee-sook Cheong
Since the advent of transpersonal psychology, studies have been actively conducted on the verification of the effectiveness of meditation, a long-standing self-discipline system in the East. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of mantra meditation on mindful attention and awareness, and whether there are differences in mindful attention awareness according to the distinction of...
The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
August 31, 2020
Jeong-Hui Nam, Hyun-Sook Park
Purpose: This study examined the effects of a loving-kindness and compassion meditation program on the empathy, emotion, and stress of nursing college students.Methods: A pre-posttest experimental design with a non-equivalent control group was applied. The participants were 39 nursing college students (experimental group: 19, control group: 20). The loving-kindness and compassion meditation...
August 28, 2020
Yi Liu, Jian-quan Liu, Xiang Li et al.
Nowadays, the prevalence of hypertension in China is still on the rise. For patients with hypertension, the combination of drug therapy and adjuvant therapy is usually used. Mindfulness Therapy as a non-medicine psychosomatic, has achieved good results in clinical application, and has become the mainstream psychological intervention technology in the treatment of chronic diseases. Mindfulness...
International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
August 28, 2020
Anamika Gautam, Srinivasan Palanivelu, Gurvinder Kaur
Background: Stress is not always avoidable but learning techniques to manage stress can develop overall wellbeing by decreasing the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social effects of stress. Learning to manage stress through holistic self-care with MBSR techniques could help to decrease the negative effects of stress.Methods: Mixed method research approach and concurrent dominant...
Scientific Reports
August 28, 2020
Yanli Lin, Lilianne M. Gloe, Courtney C. Louis et al.
17 citations
Despite a growing literature supporting the salutary effects of mindfulness meditation on emotion regulation, the underlying mechanisms linking neural and subjective changes occurring during the actual practice of meditation with emotion regulatory effects observed after meditation remains virtually unexplored. The current study sought to address this gap in knowledge by testing the hypothesis...
August 28, 2020
Karen O’Brien-Kop, Suzanne Newcombe
8 citations
This chapter offers analytical meta-reflection on the process of identifying, surveying and examining the current field of academic yoga and meditation studies. It discusses significant and ongoing shifts in this field of study, as well as the scholarly choices that contributors to this volume have faced collectively in what they have classified under the categories of ‘yoga’ and ‘meditation’...
August 28, 2020
Simon B. Goldberg, Ted Imhoff‐Smith, Daniel M. Bolt et al.
BACKGROUND A growing number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) suggest psychological benefits associated with meditation training delivered via mobile health. However, research in this area has primarily focused on mindfulness, only one of many meditative techniques. OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of 2 versions of a self-guided, smartphone-based meditation app—the...
Integrative Medicine Research
August 27, 2020
Chan-Young Kwon, Sun-Yong Chung, Jong Woo Kim
Background: The significance of mindfulness meditation (MM) has increased in recent years in both clinical settings and public health. However, ways to implement MM as a disease prevention or treatment method in the elderly is still a major challenge. A comprehensive analysis of previous studies on MM programs for the elderly in Korea will help build future integrated care programs that...