2017
Seshnum Harilall
2 citations
Mindfulness meditation has been receiving attention as a potential therapeutic tool to help those who have been traumatized or who are distressed. Anecdotal evidence reflects its potential healing abilities across varied populations with different problems. Despite this there has been very little attention to spirituality and more so mindfulness meditation in South African within the context of...
2017
Qinghong Cai
Bilingual Guided Meditation (BGM®) is an innovative contemplative practice designed to reduce college students' anxiety while learning a foreign language and to optimize foreign language learning in a relaxed and positive mindset. The BGM® program is novel in its combination of bilingual positive suggestion with the benefits of guided meditation and relaxing background music. This exploratory...
VCU Scholars Compass
2017
Tarah L. Raldiris
This study investigated the effects of two novel forms of 8-week mindfulness meditation training, focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM), relative to an established training, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), on early emotional reactivity to negative emotional images as assessed by electroencephalography (EEG). Data on the late-positive potential (LPP) were analyzed to...
Journal of Psychology and Cognition
2017
Alicia Holland, Gwendolyn Dooley, Barbara Fedock et al.
14 citations
Limited research has been conducted on the relationship between age, ethnicity and gender and the use of meditation to strengthen critical thinking. The purpose of this research study will be to investigate the relationship of age, gender and ethnicity to the use of meditation to improve critical thinking. As a quantitative study the researchers sought to quantify the strength of relationships...
Journal of pediatric nursing
2017
Chelsey Morrison Wylde, Nicole E Mahrer, Rika M L Meyer et al.
The current study compares the effects of a traditionally delivered mindfulness (TDM) intervention to a smartphone delivered mindfulness (SDM) intervention, Headspace, an audio-guided mindfulness meditation program, in a group of novice nurses. Novice nurses participating in a pediatric nurse residency program were asked to participate in either a TDM or SDM intervention. Participants (N=95)...
Issues in Information Systems
2017
18 citations
Mindfulness is often referred to as a receptive state of mind in which attention simply observes what is taking place at the present moment.Mindfulness research has flourished in the fields such as neuroscience and psychology, yet, it still lacks in the field of information systems (IS), especially with quantitative studies.This research conducted a pilot quantitative study that uses the...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
2017
David L. Mcmahan
26 citations
preprint
Buddhism in the modern world offers an example of (1) the porousness of the boundary between the secular and religious; (2) the diversity, fluidity, and constructedness of the very categories of religious and secular, since they appear in different ways among different Buddhist cultures in divergent national contexts; and (3) the way these categories nevertheless have very real-world effects...
Clinical Psychiatry
2017
Lunthita M. Duthely
1 citation
Background: Adolescents living in the United States (U.S.) report mental challenges from depressive symptoms to suicidal ideations. The positive psychology (PP) paradigm is a preventative approach to mental health challenges. Increasing gratitude, well-studied among adolescents, is a PP intervention; yet, most U.S.-based studies were limited with respect study population diversity. Few studies...
Ayu
2017
Shri K Mishra, Shaweta Khosa, Sandeep Singh et al.
The neural substrates of Yogic meditation are not well understood. Meditation is theorized to be a conscious mental process that induces a set of complex physiological changes within the areas of the brain termed as the "relaxation response." Pilot data of a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study is presented to observe and understand the selective activations of designated brain...
Open Mind
2017
Thomas Calobrisi
preprint
article published in Journal of Global Buddhism; Vol 18 (2017)