Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
April 18, 2018
Eric L Garland, Matthew O Howard
Contemporary advances in addiction neuroscience have paralleled increasing interest in the ancient mental training practice of mindfulness meditation as a potential therapy for addiction. In the past decade, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been studied as a treatment for an array addictive behaviors, including drinking, smoking, opioid misuse, and use of illicit substances like...
Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning
April 17, 2018
Angeline Villanueva Yang, Marilee Bresciani Ludvik, Caren L. Sax et al.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether attention, emotion, and cognitive regulation (CR) may be strategies to advance one’s ethnic identity. Design/methodology/approach The paper is presented in three parts. The first section discusses integrative inquiry (INIQ) (Bresciani Ludvik et al., 2016), a mindfulness methodology and mindful inquiry training program, as a potential...
April 17, 2018
Liz Walkley Hall
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Mindfulness has roots in Buddhism although there is a tradition of contemplation within most religions, including Christianity. There have been many evaluations carried out on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and variations including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), as well as MBSR-informed programmes offered within education such as the Mindfulness in Schools Programme...
International Journal of Stress Management
April 16, 2018
Sanna M. Kinnunen, Anne Puolakanaho, Asko J. Tolvanen et al.
29 citations
This study investigated individual differences in changes in burnout symptoms during a brief mindfulness-, acceptance-, and value-based (MAV) intervention.It also studied whether the changes in burnout were simultaneous with the changes in mindfulness skills.The role of practices and learning experiences in these changes were investigated.The participants were employees of various occupations...
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
April 16, 2018
AliceAnn Crandall, A. Cheung, Ashley Young et al.
Background Mindfulness meditation has become increasingly popular over the last few years, due in part to the increase in mobile apps incorporating the practice. Although studies have demonstrated the potential of mindfulness meditation to positively impact health, little has been uncovered about what predicts engagement in mindfulness meditation. Understanding the predictors of mindfulness...
Remembering the Present
April 15, 2018
J. L. Cassaniti
This chapter investigates some of the main meditative techniques practiced in Thailand, as well as what it feels like to practice them and improve over time. It begins with an ethnographic encounter with a man who has just spent a month in meditation at Wat Rampoeng in Chiang Mai, and then follows the author’s personal experience at five different meditation retreats to learn about mindfulness...
Remembering the Present
April 15, 2018
J. L. Cassaniti
This chapter examines the ways that monks in Thailand make sense of and make use of mindfulness in the course of their everyday lives at Thai monasteries. It focuses on two monks in particular as representative case studies: a rural wandering thudong monk in a remote monastery in “Mae Jaeng” outside of Chiang Mai, and an urban monk at the busy university monastery of Wat Suan Dok in the city....
Frontiers in Psychology
April 13, 2018
Yuyin Wang, Yiying Liang, Linlin Z Fan et al.
Mindfulness has been demonstrated to have positive effects on children's emotional functioning, and adaptive parenting practices are associated with fewer emotional problems. However, the association between mindful parenting and adolescent emotional problems has not been studied much. In the current study, the indirect path from mindful parenting to adolescent emotional problems was examined,...
Trials
April 13, 2018
Lahiru Russell, Anna Ugalde, Donna Milne et al.
People with a melanoma diagnosis are at risk of recurrence, developing a new primary or experiencing disease progression. Previous studies have suggested that fear of a cancer recurrence is clinically relevant in this group of patients and, if not addressed, can lead to distress. Mindfulness-based interventions have been shown to alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression among various groups...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 12, 2018
Chunxiao Li, Ying Hwa Kee, Lok Shan Lam
29 citations
Given the need to alleviate sleep problems confronting athletes, the present experiment, conducted as much as possible in a naturalistic fashion that mimics daily life, seeks to examine whether a brief mindfulness induction immediately prior to sleep following night training can improve athletes’ sleep. A sample of university athletes (n = 80) was recruited and 63 of them were eligible to...