Literature indicates that injured athletes face both physical and psychological distress after they have been injured. In this study, a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was utilised as an intervention for use during the period of recovery with injured athletes and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using MBSR as an intervention for this purpose. Objective: The aim...
Background: Mindfulness has been applied in the United States and Europe to improve physical and psychological health; however, little is known about its feasibility and efficacy in a Brazilian population. Mindfulness may also be relevant in tackling obesity and eating disorders by decreasing binge eating episodes-partly responsible for weight regain for a large number of people-and increasing...
Mindfulness is a type of contemplative practice that presents opportunity to focus one’s attention on the present moment for reasons of personal health enhancement. As a construct, mindfulness is the conscious and nonjudgmental realization of one’s moment-by-moment thoughts and experiences. Mindfulness practices could be quite useful in helping to enhance an assortment of social and emotional...
One of the most important tasks of present-day religious studies is developing a united and detailed systematisation of new religious movements. With the aim of fi nding out what place the Transcendental Meditation movement could occupy in it, this article considers various characteristics of the theory, practice and social peculiarities of this movement, off ered by researchers of new...
The Stoic emphasis upon the here and now is closely associated with a sense of mortality, transience, and urgency. The emphasis upon “mindfulness” is probably the most notable aspect of Stoicism to be neglected by early proponents of cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT). The modern CBT seems to fall short of explicitly endorsing a system of positive values of the kind found in Stoicism, although...
Vipassana is the in-depth and unmediated investigation of the mind-and-matter phenomenon. Rather than an investigation in the intellectual sense of the word, however, this is a direct experiential investigation in which certain aspects of the mind are trained to objectively examine themselves as well as other, interacting, aspects of the so-called self. The analytical aspect breaks the...
Mindfulness techniques are useful tools in health and well-being. To improve and facilitate formal training, beginners need to know if they are in a stable sitting posture and if they can hold it. Previous monitoring studies did not consider stability during sitting meditation or were specific for longer traditional practices. In this paper, we have extended and adapted previous studies to...
OBJECTIVE: U.S. veterans are at increased risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prior studies suggest a benefit of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for PTSD, but the mechanisms through which MBSR reduces PTSD symptoms and improves functional status have received limited empirical inquiry. This study used a qualitative approach to better understand how training in...
Primary objective was to evaluate and compare the change or reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) in sitting position from baseline (week 0) to the end point (Week 12) between two groups, to evaluate and compare the change or reduction in Stress value between two groups and Secondary Objective was to observe and compare change in lipid profiles between two groups. Methods: In...
To meet specific goals, athletes frequently have to deal with several demands that may deplete their limited self-control resources, which may in turn negatively affect their subsequent performance in a wide variety of sports-related tasks (e.g., coordinative, psychological, and physical tasks). Mindfulness meditation may be beneficial for mechanisms involved during self-control exertion,...