Margaret McCartney: Mindful of mindfulness [PDF]
Are you paying attention to the present moment, in a non-judgmental way? Are you undistracted? Do you feel “here” and grounded? The modern mindfulness movement has gained wide support in Britain, far beyond its use in mental health services. But the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approves the technique only for preventing and ...
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Does Interacting with Trustworthy People Enhance Mindfulness? An Experience Sampling Study of Mindfulness in Everyday Situations [PDF]
Mindfulness is known to increase after meditation interventions. But might features of our everyday situations outside of meditation not also influence our mindfulness from moment-to-moment?
Kudesia, Ravi S., Reina, Christopher S.
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What participants think about learning Mindfulness-Based Programs online
Objectives Little is known about how participants experience Mindfulness-Based Programs (MBPs) that are delivered online. Understanding how online delivery is experienced by participants could inform any adaptations needed for online delivery of MBPs and
Alison M. Burton +2 more
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Mindfulness meditation targets transdiagnostic symptoms implicated in stress-related disorders: Understanding relationships between changes in mindfulness, sleep quality, and physical symptoms [PDF]
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week meditation program known to improve anxiety, depression, and psychological well-being. Other health-related effects, such as sleep quality, are less well established, as are the psychological ...
Brantley, Jeffrey G +8 more
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While mindfulness has demonstrated extensive benefits across diverse populations, research on its integration as a formal course and its effects on subjective well-being (SWB), particularly among Taiwanese university students, remains limited. This pilot
Li-Jen Lin +3 more
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Mindful Stitch: Generating dialogue in and around the threads of wellbeing [PDF]
This article investigates wellbeing and mindfulness within contemporary art and craft practice, exploring initial introductions by Jon Kabat-Zinn of mindfulness practices into modern westernised medicine as a group or independent outlet. 21st Century
Swinnerton, Emma Louise
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We discuss an optimisation criterion for the exact renormalisation group based on the inverse effective propagator, which displays a gap. We show that a simple extremisation of the gap stabilises the flow, leading to better convergence of approximate solutions towards the physical theory. This improves the reliability of truncations, most relevant for
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Teaching Mindfulness-Based Programs online: perceived costs and benefits
Objectives This study examines the demographics of those who teach Mindfulness-Based Programs (MBPs) online, and their experiences of the online teaching process.
Alison M. Burton +2 more
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Background: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been found to have significant health benefits in studies conducted in the global North. Aim: This study examined the effects of MBSR on stress, mood states and medical symptoms among urban South ...
Simon L. Whitesman +4 more
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Focused Attention vs. Open Monitoring: An Event-Related Potential Study of Emotion Regulation by Two Distinct Forms of Mindfulness Meditation [PDF]
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 ...
Raldiris, Tarah L
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