A Matter of (Inner) Balance: The Association Between Facets of Mindfulness, Attention Deficit, and Postural Stability

Rosenstreich, Eyal; Levi, Uzi; Laslo‐Roth, Roni

doi:10.1007/s12671-018-0909-0

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“…Some studies have shown that CD decreased body sway (Albertsen et al., 2017; Polskaia & Lajoie, 2016), seemingly because cognitive tasks may have acted as distractors from motoric balancing, encouraging unconscious balance regulation to improve stance control without interference (Bayot et al., 2018). Attention seems to play an important role in balance regulation, as illustrated by weaker balance control among young adults and children who suffer from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to control groups (Konicarova et al., 2014; Rosenstreich et al., 2018). Furthermore, adding a CD during an upright standing task (Shorer et al., 2012) or a dynamic balance task (Rosenstreich et al., 2018) led to more stable balance control.…”

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“…Attention seems to play an important role in balance regulation, as illustrated by weaker balance control among young adults and children who suffer from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to control groups (Konicarova et al., 2014; Rosenstreich et al., 2018). Furthermore, adding a CD during an upright standing task (Shorer et al., 2012) or a dynamic balance task (Rosenstreich et al., 2018) led to more stable balance control. Researchers reasoned that these perturbations may have triggered an automatic unconscious balance regulation resulting in a more stable performance.…”

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A growing body of research has shown that static stance control (e.g., body sway) is influenced by cognitive demands (CD), an effect that may be related to competition for limited central resources. Measures of stance control have also been impacted by postural demands (PD) (e.g., stable vs. unstable stances). However, less is known of any possible interactions between PD and CD on static stance control in populations with intact balance control and ample cognitive resources, like young healthy adults. In this study, among the same participants, we factorially compared the impact of PD with and without CD on static stance control. Thirty-four healthy young adults wore inertial measurement units (IMU) while completing static stance tasks for 30 seconds in three different PD positions: feet apart, feet together, and tandem feet. After completing these tasks alone, participants performed these tasks with CD by concurrently completing verbal serial seven subtractions from a randomly selected three-digit number. For two dependent measures, path length and jerk, there were main effects of CD and PD but no interaction effect between these factors. For all other stance control parameters, there was only a PD main effect. Thus, adding a cognitive demand to postural demands, while standing upright, may have an independent impact on stance control, but CD does not seem to interact with PD. These results suggest that young healthy adults may be less sensitive to simple PD and CD due to their greater inherent balance control and available cognitive resources. Future work might explore more complex PD and CD combinations to determine the boundaries under which young adults’ resources are taxed.

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“…Daubenmier et al, 2016). Rosenstreich et al (2018) have also investigated the associations between facets of mindfulness (i.e., awareness, non-reacting, non-judging, observing, and describe), attention deficit, and postural stability. The authors assessed task performance by measuring participants' mediolateral trunk sway, and identified, through the use of regression analysis, a positive association between static balance and the facet of observing (i.e., a core aspect of mindfulness; Lilja et al, 2013) in the absence of visual cues.…”

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“…Interestingly, other facets of mindfulness were associated with less stable performance when participants reported divided attention during execution of the motor task. The complexity of the psychological underpinnings of mindfulness revealed by Rosenstreich et al (2018) also serve to indicate that mindfulness-based interventions hold the potential to hamper or facilitate execution of movements, and that specific recommendations must be proposed on the basis of their efficacy and functionality. This study also demonstrates that the use of certain forms of meditation might be associated with decrements in motor performance.…”

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Exploring the Use of Meditation as a Valuable Tool to Counteract Sedentariness

Bigliassi

Bertuzzi

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Some forms of meditation have been recently proposed as effective tools to facilitate the handling of undesired thoughts and reappraisal of negative emotions that commonly arise during exercise-related situations. The effects of meditation-based interventions on psychological responses could also be used as a means by which to increase exercise adherence and counteract the detrimental consequences of sedentariness. In the present article, we briefly describe the effects of meditation on physical activity and related factors. We also propose a theoretical model as a means by which to further understanding of the effects of meditation on psychological, psychophysical, and psychophysiological responses during exercise. The results of very recent studies in the realms of cognitive and affective psychology are promising. The putative psychological mechanisms underlying the effects of meditation on exercise appear to be associated with the interpretation of interoceptive and exteroceptive sensory signals. This is primarily due to the fact that meditation influences the cerebral processing of physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. In such instances, the bodily and perceptual responses that are commonly reported during exercise might be assuaged during the practice of meditation. It also appears that conscious presence and self-compassion function as an emotional backdrop against which more complex behaviors can be forged. In such instances, re-engagement to physical activity programs can be more effectively achieved through the implementation of holistic methods to treat the body and mind. The comments provided in the present paper might have very important implications for exercise adherence and the treatment of hypokinetic diseases.

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“…Specifically, participants were consisted of college students and staff in their cognitive and motor prime, individual differences may explain these findings. In particular, at the end of this study we also collected participants' predisposed mindfulness levels and examined their associations with postural control (we report these data elsewhere) [28]. Indeed, when individual differences in awareness to the present moments were controlled, group differences emerged, some studies showed that differences between ADD/H groups may not be as consistent as apparently seem, such that both groups may perform similarly [10,27].…”

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Int J Cogn Behav

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This study examined the feasibility of the Microsoft Kinect sensor for assessing mediolateral trunk sway and its associations with cognitive abilities. To this end, young adults and elderlies were sampled and performed various gait and balance tasks under single-and dual-task paradigms. Although reliable, Kinect's ability to assess cognition through movement was not conclusive. Specifically, the Kinect distinguished between young-and old-adults gait, but not between young-adults with and without attention-deficit-disorder. However, gait under divided-attention and balance in the absence of visual-information interacted and affected performance in the Trail Making Test (TMT). The simple-effects showed that TMT-performance among participants with better stability in the absence of visual information was not affected by increased attentional demands. In contrast, attentional demands ill-affected TMT-performance among those who did not maintain their stability in the absence of visual information. We discuss these findings in terms of interoceptive attention, awareness, and control over movement.

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A Matter of (Inner) Balance: The Association Between Facets of Mindfulness, Attention Deficit, and Postural Stability

Cited by 10 publications

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Effects of Cognitive Over Postural Demands on Upright Standing Among Young Adults

Effects of Cognitive Over Postural Demands on Upright Standing Among Young Adults

Exploring the Use of Meditation as a Valuable Tool to Counteract Sedentariness

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