Embodied effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Michalak, Johannes; Troje, Nikolaus F.; Heidenreich, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.01.004

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“…Moreover, one might speculate that an alternative way to change motoric patterns might be to enhance body awareness by interventions like Mindfulness‐based Cognitive Therapy (Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, ). If patients are intensively trained in mindful body awareness, they might develop an intuitive understanding of the interplay of bodily and emotional processes (for a detailed discussion see Michalak, Burg, & Heidenreich, ) and change depressogenic motoric patterns (Michalak, Troje, & Heidenreich, , ). Of course, it should be noted that further longitudinal studies are needed to determine whether changes in the motoric system have a long lasting impact on memory bias and clinical significant effects on the course of MDDs.…”

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Sitting Posture Makes a Difference—Embodiment Effects on Depressive Memory Bias

Michalak

Mischnat

Teismann

2014

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Basic research has shown that the motoric system (i.e., motor actions or stable postures) can strongly affect emotional processes. The present study sought to investigate the effects of sitting posture on the tendency of depressed individuals to recall a higher proportion of negative self-referent material. Thirty currently depressed inpatients either sat in a slumped (depressed) or in an upright (non-depressed) posture while imagining a visual scene of themselves in connection with positive or depression related words presented to them on a computer screen. An incidental recall test of these words was conducted after a distraction task. Results of a mixed ANOVA showed a significant posture x word type interaction, with upright-sitting patients showing unbiased recall of positive and negative words but slumped patients showing recall biased towards more negative words. The findings indicate that relatively minor changes in the motoric system can affect one of the best-documented cognitive biases in depression. Practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Sitting Posture Makes a Difference—Embodiment Effects on Depressive Memory Bias

Michalak

Mischnat

Teismann

2014

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…Recent research has emphasized the importance of bodily sensation in the development of mindfulness (Farb et al 2010;Michalak et al 2010). Specifically, Farb et al (2010) showed a greater recruitment of visceral and somatosensory areas in the brain during the expression of sadness in participants who had completed mindfulness training, compared to controls.…”

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The Healthy Quality of Mindful Breathing: Associations With Rumination and Depression

Burg

Michalak

2010

Cogn Ther Res

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The present study examines the relationships between mindfulness and rumination, repetitive negative thinking, and depressive symptoms, employing a newly developed paradigm for the assessment of mindfulness. Derived from a central exercise of mindfulness-based interventions, 42 undergraduates were asked to observe their breath for about 18 min. Within this time period, they were prompted 22 times at irregular intervals to indicate whether they had lost mindful contact with their breath as a result of mind wandering. The results show negative correlations between the degree of the ability to stay mindfully in contact with the breath and measures of rumination, repetitive negative thinking, and depression. Moreover, positive associations with self-report data of mindfulness and a negative relationship to fear of bodily sensations support the construct validity of our new approach for the assessment of mindfulness. In summary, findings suggest the healthy quality of mindful breathing regarding depression-related processes.

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“…Contemplative training can facilitate contemplative cognition and its consequences through instruction, formal and informal practice, and also reading, lecture, study, etc., which is customary in many traditions and modern interventions. Also, to the extent that contemplative cognition may be evident in behavior (e.g., Choi, Karremans, & Barendregt, 2012;Michalak, Troje, & Heidenreich, 2011) …”

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Contemplative Cognition: A More Integrative Framework for Advancing Mindfulness and Meditation Research

Grossenbacher

Quaglia

2017

Mindfulness

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Mindfulness, whether distinguished as a state, trait, or training, is central to a growing wave of interest in meditation. Theoretical development has been called for in order to clarify confusion about mindfulness from a scientific perspective. Ideally, such development will allow ingress for more traditional perspectives, and guide inclusive research on the wider range of meditation practices. To address this call, we outline a new approach for understanding mindfulness and related meditative experience that accommodates diverse perspectives. In accord with other integrative approaches, we employ foundational psychological constructs (namely, attention, intention, and awareness) to understand mindfulness. In contrast to other theoretical perspectives, however, we utilize this foundation to derive novel psychological constructs needed to better explain mindfulness and important features of meditative experience more widely. The contemplative cognition framework integrates three attention-related processes

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Embodied effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

Sitting Posture Makes a Difference—Embodiment Effects on Depressive Memory Bias

Sitting Posture Makes a Difference—Embodiment Effects on Depressive Memory Bias

The Healthy Quality of Mindful Breathing: Associations With Rumination and Depression

Contemplative Cognition: A More Integrative Framework for Advancing Mindfulness and Meditation Research

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