Mindfulness
May 1, 2020
Adam W. Hanley, Michael Dambrun, Eric L Garland
66 citations
Mindfulness training is believed to encourage self-transcendent states, but little research has examined this hypothesis. This study examined the effects of mindfulness training on two phenomenological features of self-transcendence: 1) perceived body boundary dissolution, and 2) more allocentric spatial frames of reference. A sample of healthy, young adults (n=45) were randomized to five...
International Journal of Social Welfare Promotion and Management
April 30, 2020
Se-La Lim, Heejun Lee
This study explored correlation of People of S city’s for chakra meditation experience motivation, and Anxiety to confirm mediation model and path of physical and emotional and social state perception. To this end, data was collected from 223 survey results conducted by 250. The survey consisted of, the Chakra Meditation Experience Motivation scale, the Mental Health (SCL90-R) Questionnaire for...
Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange
April 30, 2020
Hee-sook Kwon, Mee-sook Cheong
High job-stress is more than 2 times likely to cause depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. More 70% of professional managers responded that they felt stressed in their workplaces for the past 10 years. This study investigates the effects of mantra meditation on self-compassion and stress of office workers. The subjects of this study were 20 head managers of apartments in K city. The purpose...
Psychotherapy
April 30, 2020
Simon B. Goldberg, Adam W. Hanley, Scott A. Baldwin et al.
22 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions are commonly used to reduce psychological symptoms and enhance positive qualities of human functioning. However, the influence of mindfulness practice dosage remains poorly understood, limiting dissemination and implementation efforts. The current study examined the association between practice dosage and several constructs related to psychological functioning...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 29, 2020
Lena Wimmer, Silja Bellingrath, Lisa Von Stockhausen
The present study examined the effects of mindfulness training on attention regulation in university students and whether the potential benefits of implementation are influenced by the yoga component of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and/or by MBI homework practice. In a non-randomized trial with pre- and post-assessments, n = 180 university students were allocated to either mindfulness...
Journal of Attention Disorders
April 26, 2020
Pietro Muratori, Ciro Conversano, Valentina Levantini et al.
Objective: This study was the first attempt to explore the efficacy of a mindfulness protocol for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and their parents. Method: Fifty male children with ADHD and ODD diagnosis, aged 8 to 12, were randomly assigned to the mindfulness intervention (n = 25) or the wait-list (n = 25) group. Outcome...
Advanced Biomedicine
April 25, 2020
Wu Xiafen, Huang Guohua, Wang Chunli et al.
Objective: We attempt to explore the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on unhealthy emotion and sleep quality of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients. Methods: we enrolled 92 patients who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients in the Hematology Department of our hospital from February 2017 to August 2019 and averagely divided them into control...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
April 24, 2020
Janae Sholtz
This article explores the ethical imperative to dramatise in the work of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, two of the most radical thinkers in twentieth-century philosophy, as a peculiar kind of askesis. Whereas askesis is often associated with asceticism or self-denial, in the sense of self-regulation and abstention, Bataille and Deleuze advocate training the self towards intensification of...
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
April 24, 2020
Caroline Stockman
Mobile and wearable technology now offers new avenues for technology-supported meditation practice and learning. Through a qualitative-dominant con-vergent parallel design, this study explored new empirical findings on the human perception of such technology-guided meditation training. A purposive sample of six participants trialled the device in several sessions during three weeks. Post-use,...
Brain and Behavior
April 23, 2020
Masoomeh Zarenejad, Mansooreh Yazdkhasti, Mitra Rahimzadeh et al.
Abstract Objective The aim of the study was to assess the effect of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) on anxiety and self‐efficacy in coping with childbirth. Material and Methods This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 70 pregnant women in Abyek city of Qazvin province in Iran. The convenient sampling method was recruited. Samples were assigned to control and intervention...