Scientific Reports
July 11, 2017
Sunghyon Kyeong, Joohan Kim, Dae-Jin Kim et al.
A sense of gratitude is a powerful and positive experience that can promote a happier life, whereas resentment is associated with life dissatisfaction. To explore the effects of gratitude and resentment on mental well-being, we acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging and heart rate (HR) data before, during, and after the gratitude and resentment interventions. Functional connectivity...
BMJ Open
July 10, 2017
Catherine Mak, Koa Whittingham, Ross Cunnington et al.
Introduction: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood physical disability, with life-long impacts for 1.77 in 1000 children. Although CP is primarily a physical disability, children with CP have an increased risk of experiencing cognitive difficulties, particularly attention and executive function deficits. Impairment in cognitive abilities can lead to subsequent impairment in...
BMC Palliative Care
July 6, 2017
Claudia L. Orellana‐Rios, Lukas Radbruch, Martina Kern et al.
162 citations
BACKGROUND: Maintaining a sense of self-care while providing patient centered care, can be difficult for practitioners in palliative medicine. We aimed to pilot an "on the job" mindfulness and compassion-oriented meditation training for interdisciplinary teams designed to reduce distress, foster resilience and strengthen a prosocial motivation in the clinical encounter. METHODS: Our objective...
LEARNing Landscapes
July 5, 2017
Karen A. Berezowski, Chris Gilham, Daniel Bruce Robinson
2 citations
This article reports on results from a narrative inquiry into the experiences of four students who completed an elective yoga course as part of their high school program in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand the participants' stories of their yoga experiences. Overall, students were able to express and give examples of how yoga made them...
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
July 5, 2017
Matilde Elices, Joaquim Soler, Albert Feliu-Soler et al.
BackgroundDialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills have become increasingly used to treat several psychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of the study was to investigate the efficacy of an intervention that combines emotion regulation and mindfulness skills of DBT to prevent depression relapse/recurrence.MethodsA total of 75 individuals (79% females; mean...
July 5, 2017
Reinhard Kowalski
This chapter explores some of the differences and similarities of meditation practices that have grown out of different traditions. In recent years psychological meditation treatment programmes have emerged, which, to varying degrees, all employ meditation practices, frequently repackaged under the umbrella name Mindfulness, and often combined with methods from the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy...
LEARNing Landscapes
July 5, 2017
Stephanie Anne Piotrowski, Marni Binder, Jasna Schwind
6 citations
Recent research into mindfulness in education supports introduction of this practice into the classroom. This qualitative descriptive study explored mindfulness with young children, as perceived by their teachers. Four primary teachers were interviewed using open-ended and semi-structured questions, allowing them to share their experiences of implementing mindfulness in their classrooms. Using...
Contemporary Buddhism
July 3, 2017
Tessa Watt
8 citations
This paper investigates a particular understanding of ‘awareness’ in Mahāyāna Buddhism and its relevance for secular mindfulness. We will focus on the Zen and Mahāmudrā traditions which share a view of awareness as an innate wakefulness, described using metaphors of space, light and clarity. These traditions encourage practices in which the meditator rests in this spacious ‘non-dual’ awareness:...
American Journal of Critical Care
July 1, 2017
Margo A. Halm
47 citations
“Care for yourself so you can care for others” … an age-old adage that is easily forgotten in our jam-packed personal and professional lives. As caregivers, nurses have been socialized to care for others and thus often prioritize their needs as second. Self-care remains vital for nurses to ease the detrimental effects of stress in the constantly and rapidly changing health care environment and...
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine
July 1, 2017
K. Kemper, N. Rao
Background. There is increasing interest in brief, online training in mind-body skills to improve resilience in health professionals. Methods. We analyzed data from an online training program in focused attention meditation. Resilience, relaxation, stress, positive and negative affect, and flourishing were measured before and after training using standardized scales. Results. The 379...