Mindfulness
March 18, 2019
Luis Cásedas, Vincenzo Pirruccio, Miguel A Vadillo et al.
preprint
Objectives Over the last years, mindfulness meditation has been claimed to be effective in enhancing several cognitive domains, including executive control. However, these claims have been mostly based on findings pertaining to case-control and cross-sectional studies, which are by nature unable to reveal causal relationships. Aiming to address this issue, we set out to conduct the first...
March 14, 2019
Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen
Yoga, meditation, and asceticism have been intimately linked throughout Indian religious history since the early beginnings in the ascetic reformism of India’s “axial age.” Traditional yoga addresses the main concerns of the ascetic reformism and is a practical method to solve the problem of suffering and attain liberation from this world. It primarily refers to the practice of meditation as...
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation
March 14, 2019
Ayesha Nathoo
7 citations
Abstract This chapter elucidates the shared socio-cultural history of modern, therapeutic relaxation and meditation strategies. It demonstrates how the promulgation of relaxation therapies from the early twentieth century strongly influenced the later advancement of secularized, therapeutic meditation practices. It traces the development of scientifically grounded neuromuscular relaxation...
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
March 11, 2019
Paul Lattimore
Purpose: Emotional eating is important to study and address because it predicts poor outcome in weight loss interventions. Interventions have only touched the surface in terms of addressing emotional eating. Mindfulness approaches can address emotional eating by modification of emotion regulation and appetitive traits. The current study involved development of an emotional eating-specific...
Human Brain Mapping
March 9, 2019
Anthony P Zanesco, Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G King et al.
Meditation practice is believed to foster states of mindful awareness and mental quiescence in everyday life. If so, then the cultivation of these qualities with training ought to leave its imprint on the activity of intrinsic functional brain networks. In an intensive longitudinal study, we investigated associations between meditation practitioners' experiences of felt mindful awareness and...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 8, 2019
F. Parmentier, Mauro Garcia-Toro, Javier García-campayo et al.
The present study examined the effects of mindfulness on depression and anxiety, both direct and indirect through the mediation of four mechanisms of emotional regulation: worry, rumination, reappraisal and suppression. Path analysis was applied to data collected from an international and non-clinical sample of 1151 adults, including both meditators and non-meditators, who completed an online...
Circulation
March 5, 2019
Robert H Schneider, Kenneth G Walton, Otelio Randall et al.
Background: High stress level is thought to be a factor in the disproportionate rates of mortality from CHD and stroke in African Americans. Stress-related CVD risk factors such as hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, obesity, and high blood pressure tend to occur together, and their co-occurrence has been labeled the “insulin-resistance” or “metabolic” syndrome. The Transcendental Meditation (TM)...
Abstracts
March 1, 2019
Guangbo Chen, V. Saper, Gail H. Deutsch et al.
Career situation of first and presenting author Student for a master or a PhD. Introduction Previous research in healthy individuals showed that the innate immune response can be voluntarily modulated by a training program involving breathing exercises, exposure to cold and meditation1. It is unknown whether the same intervention could potentially lead to suppression of inflammation and whether...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
March 2019
Stephanie Louise, Susan L. Rossell, Neil Thomas
A prominent area of advancement in the psychological treatment for people with persisting psychosis has been the application of mindfulness-based therapies. Recent literature has recommended the investigation of focused mindfulness interventions for voices (auditory hallucinations) as a specific experience. To date, only mindfulness programs in group format have been examined. This...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
March 2019
Diane Ceravolo, Deborah A Raines
To examine the impact of a mindfulness intervention on nurse managers in an acute care hospital. A pre/post intervention design with three data collection points: prior to, at the conclusion of, and at 3 months following the intervention. A survey to measure the impact of a mindfulness workshops on nurse managers' perception of professional quality of life, burnout, and perceived wellness....