Psychosomatic Medicine
April 1, 2019
J. D. Creswell, Emily K. Lindsay, Daniella K. Villalba et al.
Objective There has been substantial research and public interest in mindfulness interventions, biological pathways, and health for the past two decades. This article reviews recent developments in understanding relationships between mindfulness interventions and physical health. Methods A selective review was conducted with the goal of synthesizing conceptual and empirical relationships...
International Archives of Health Sciences
April 1, 2019
Marjan Faraji, Siavash Talepasand, Isaac Rahimian Boogar
Aims: Bullying is an ever-increasing phenomenon in schools and it has far-reaching consequences on children and adolescents, for which necessary measures must be taken to prevent and reduce it. This study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for child (MBCT-C) on bullying behavior among children. Materials and Methods: the population of this study...
The FASEB Journal
April 1, 2019
George P Einstein, Michael S Rahman, Carla M Konyk et al.
Evidence in the last few decades have supported claim that meditation can reduce stress and promote health; the effects of which are on physical and mental health, and cognitive performance. There is more evidence about the specific parts of the brain involved in producing these positive influences. The neuronal pathways are not fully understood; the model of chronic pain however may provide...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
April 1, 2019
Claudia Wang, Kaigang Li, Susan A Gaylord
The purpose of the study is to examine the characteristics of various types of meditation use (i.e., mantra, mindful, and spiritual meditation) among U.S. children. Using 2017 National Health Interview Survey, we examined the prevalence, patterns, and potential predictors of meditation use among U.S. children aged 4 to 17 years. Descriptive statistics, Wald F chi-square test, and multivariable...
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
April 1, 2019
Ceri Bowen
Mindfulness approaches to promoting resilience and mental fitness within the UK Armed Forces have very recently emerged against a backdrop of studies from abroad, leading to a plethora of initiatives. These studies have used biological and cognitive markers of sustained attention and the human stress response, before and after training, in the period prior to deployment and made assertions of...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
March 31, 2019
Ariel J Lang, Anne Malaktaris, Pollyanna Casmar et al.
50 citations
There is considerable interest in developing complementary and integrative approaches for ameliorating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Compassion meditation (CM) and loving-kindness meditation appear to offer benefits to individuals with PTSD, including symptom reduction. The present study was a pilot randomized controlled trial of CM for PTSD in veterans. The CM condition, an adaptation...
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
March 30, 2019
Dusti R Jones, Barbara J. Lehman, Alysia Noriega et al.
Background and objectives: Mindfulness meditation (MM) training promotes health and well-being. One potential mechanistic link between MM and health may be coping flexibility, (e.g., the ability to monitor and modify coping strategies based on situational needs and strategy effectiveness). We hypothesized that MM training would increase coping flexibility and also explored whether gains in...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter considers the early, community-oriented wing of New Thought movement and the Mindfulness movement side by side and identifies several characteristics they have in common, as well as significant differences between them. The Mindfulness movement is similar in various ways to Individualist New Thought. This analysis reveals some of the problems and limitations inherent in the...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter considers whether Mindfulness can reasonably be considered a kind of religion, despite proponents’ claims to the contrary. If so, what kind? Is it Buddhist? If so, what kind of Buddhism? The rhetoric of Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the modern Mindfulness movement, is tested against several different theories of religion, as well as critiques by specialists in both Theravāda and...
Mind Cure
March 28, 2019
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
This chapter asks whether mindfulness is as broadly effective and powerful as proponents claim and considers methodological and other critiques of clinical research on mindfulness. Neuroscientists have produced vivid images of meditators’ brains, using functional MRI and PET scans, which seem to show clear, positive changes attributed to meditation. Such images are effective rhetorically but...