The Buddha's Path of Peace: A Step-by-Step Guide
August 1, 2020
Geoffrey Hunt
This chapter begins with an account of ‘watchfulness’, and an exercise. This is an entrée into fully-fledged mindfulness. Then we find that concentration and mindfulness may be practically integrated in what the author calls ‘The Anchor & Buoy Model’ of meditation. Here too an important and dynamic exercise called ‘The Body Scan’ enlivens the mindfulness of body. The reader is shown the utility...
The Buddha's Path of Peace: A Step-by-Step Guide
August 1, 2020
G. Hunt
We now run through the first three ‘Foundations of Mindfulness’ with some simple exercises. (We shall return to the fourth foundation in Chapter 17). By a ‘foundation’ of mindfulness is meant a category of those things we can be mindful of. In this chapter there is a quick description of the four: 1. the bodily experience (e.g. skin sensations), 2. the pleasure/pain experience (e.g. an insect...
American Journal of Occupational Therapy
August 1, 2020
Kimberly A. Szucs, Jennie Dyer, Melissa Lees
Date Presented 03/26/20 In today’s technology-based world, prolonged device use is common among college students. This quantitative study explores the effect of two weeks of mindfulness meditation on body awareness in college students. Based on preliminary data analysis, there is an increase in both mindfulness and body awareness in the target population. These current findings support the...
Mood Prep 101
August 1, 2020
Carol Landau
This chapter reviews distress tolerance and strategies for developing them in students. Distress tolerance skills were developed in dialectical behavior therapy, particularly relevant to students who have great amounts of difficulty modulating negative emotions. Although parents may be tempted to jump in with problem-solving for their teens, a better approach is to assist teens in developing...
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
August 1, 2020
Nicole Wolff, Christian Beste
Abstract: Cognitive flexibility is an important aspect relevant to daily life situations, and there is an increasing public interest to optimize these functions, for example, using (brief) meditation practices. However, the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms remain poorly understood. On the basis of theoretical considerations, both improvements and deteriorations of cognitive flexibility...
Thinking Skills and Creativity
August 1, 2020
D. Henriksen, Carmen C. Richardson, Kyle Shack
Highlights • This thematic literature review investigates the relationship between mindfulness and creativity• Mindfulness practices improve skills or habits of mind that can support creativity• The mindfulness-creativity relationship is complex, but generally positive• Deliberate/mindful mind-wandering can support creativity• Purposeful inclusion of mindfulness in learning settings can benefit...
Journal of Medical Internet Research
August 1, 2020
Maren Goetz, Claudia Schiele, Mitho Müller et al.
Background Peripartum depression and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent and are correlated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Antenatal care in Germany does not yet include structured screening and effective low-threshold treatment options for women facing peripartum depression and anxiety disorders. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are increasingly becoming a focus of...
JAMA Network Open
August 1, 2020
Sapna Oberoi, Jiayu Yang, R. Woodgate et al.
Key Points Question Are mindfulness-based interventions associated with decreased anxiety in adults with cancer? Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 28 randomized clinical trials with 3053 participants, mindfulness-based interventions were associated with reductions in the severity of anxiety in adults with cancer up to 6 months after delivery of mindfulness sessions...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
August 1, 2020
Angela A T Schuurmans, Karin S Nijhof, Ron H. J. Scholte et al.
Many youth in residential care suffer from post-traumatic symptoms that have adverse effects on a range of psychological, behavioural and physiological outcomes. Although current evidence-based treatment options are effective, they have their limitations. Meditation interventions are an alternative to traditional trauma-focused treatment. This pilot study aimed to evaluate three game-based...
Political Theory
August 1, 2020
S. Mariotti
In recent years, contemplative practices of meditation have become increasingly mainstream in American culture, part of a phenomenon that scholars call “Buddhist modernism.” Connecting the embodied practice of meditation with the embodied practice of democracy in everyday life, this essay puts the radical democratic theory of Jacques Rancière into conversation with the Zen writings of Shunryu...