August 26, 2020
Travis N. Ray, S. Franz, Nicole L. Jarrett et al.
Previous research suggests that meditation, a mindfulness exercise, could result in increased connectedness to nature and pro-environmental behavior. Exposure to nature also is associated with these outcomes. It was hypothesized that meditation alongside stimuli reminiscent of the natural environment would produce enhanced effects. Participants (N = 97) were randomly assigned to complete a...
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
August 25, 2020
Abhimanyu Ganguly, Sandip M Hulke, Rajay Bharshanakar et al.
Context: Meditation is very useful to relieve stress via hypothalamo-pituitory axis. Meditation is considered to be useful to relieve stress and cardio-respiratory health. Aims: To compare the effect of meditation on autonomic function including heart rate variability (HRV) over a period of 3 months of meditation. Settings and design: Longitudinal study conducted at Physiology Department, AIIMS...
Mindfulness
August 21, 2020
Promoting Mindfulness in African American Communities.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
August 21, 2020
Miguel Farias, Everton Maraldi, K. C. Wallenkampf et al.
Meditation techniques are widely used as therapy and wellbeing practices, but there are growing concerns about its potential for harm. The aim of the present study is to systematically review meditation adverse events (MAEs), investigating its major clinical categories and its prevalence.
Integrative Cancer Therapies
August 18, 2020
HyeYoun Park, Sohee Oh, Yumi Noh et al.
Objectives. We aimed to investigate the effects of brief supportive expressive group therapy with mindfulness for cancer patients and to assess the utility of heart rate variability (HRV) as a biomarker of distress and treatment effect. Methods. A total of 28 female patients with nonmetastatic cancer at a university hospital in South Korea received a 4-week modified group therapy for distress...
Current Pain and Headache Reports
August 17, 2020
Alex Jinich-Diamant, Eric L Garland, Jennifer N Baumgartner et al.
This review examines recent (2016 onwards) neuroscientific findings on the mechanisms supporting mindfulness-associated pain relief. To date, its clear that mindfulness lowers pain by engaging brain processes that are distinct from placebo and vary across meditative training level. Due to rapid developments in the field of contemplative neuroscience, an update review on the neuroimaging studies...
Healthy-Mu Journal
August 16, 2020
Sang A. Kt. Candrawati, Ni Komang Sukraandini, Putu Gede Subhaktiyasa
Students are individuals who are studying well in tertiary institutions. During the academic process, students will complete the final project at the undergraduate level of the thesis called the final student. Students must continue the final project to complete their academic education. One problem that arises in the final student is anxiety. Anxiety is an emotional response that arises due to...
Nutrients
August 14, 2020
Encarnación Soriano-Ayala, Alberto Amutio, Clemente Franco et al.
The present study explored the effects of a second-generation mindfulness-based intervention known as flow meditation (Meditación-Fluir) in the improvement of healthy life behaviors. A sample of university students (n = 51) in Spain were randomly assigned to a seven-week mindfulness treatment or a waiting list control group. Results showed that compared to the control group, individuals in the...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 14, 2020
Justin P. Yuan, Colm G Connolly, Eva Henje et al.
21 citations
Meditation has shown to benefit a wide range of conditions and symptoms, but the neural mechanisms underlying the practice remain unclear. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have investigated the structural brain changes due to the practice by examining volume, density, or cortical thickness changes. However, these studies have focused on adults; meditation's structural effects on the...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 12, 2020
Freddie Lymeus, Marie Ahrling, Josef Apelman et al.
19 citations
Restoration skills training (ReST) is a mindfulness-based course that draws on restorative nature experience to facilitate the meditation practice and teach widely applicable adaptation skills. Previous studies comparing ReST to conventional mindfulness training (CMT) showed that ReST has important advantages: it supports beginning meditators in connecting with restorative environmental...