Mindfulness Research
by Mary Martin · updated 22d ago
Mindfulness Research
by Mary Martin · updated 22d ago
By separating pain from the self and relinquishing evaluative judgment, mindfulness meditation is able to directly modify how we experience pain in a way that uses no drugs, costs nothing and can be practiced anywhere.
Mary Martin added 1mo ago
A new study, published in Biological Psychiatry, has revealed that mindfulness meditation engages distinct brain mechanisms to reduce pain compared to those of the placebo response.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-brain-scans-reveal-mindfulness-meditation.html
Mary Martin added 1mo ago
There is a clear need for conceptual agreement on the meaning
of mindfulness, not only to facilitate communication about the construct but, most pragmatically, to create a stable platform of basic and applied research in this
still young area of investigation.
https://www.academia.edu/11912225/Mindfulness_Theoretical_Foundations_
... See moreMary Martin added 2mo ago
a path to less time pressure and more time affluence could consist in learning and practicing mindfulness.
https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aphw.12298
Mary Martin added 3mo ago
reading habit may be one of the useful strategies for protecting mental health via increasing self-compassion, particularly in people with depressive temperament.
https://www.academia.edu/2997-9196/1/1/10.20935/MHealthWellB6176
Mary Martin added 4mo ago
the explicit feeling of selfless minds may be tacitly accompanied by the implicit feeling of unlimited body, as two sides of the same coin. To put it provocatively: the only and unique occasion when one truly loses one’s self is when one’s body becomes a corpse (i.e. death).
Mary Martin added 4mo ago
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
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the existence of mindfulness as an innate trait is questionable as mindfulness in the traditional Buddhist terms and, in an applied sense, was developed as a practice; a skill to be developed throughout one's lifetime regardless of one's prevailing psychological phenomena
https://www.academia.edu/17785165/Mindfulness_Literature_Review?email_work_car
... See moreMary Martin added 10mo ago
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