Mindfulness: An effective coaching tool for improving physical and mental health

Robins, Jo Lynne W.; Kiken, Laura G.; Holt, Melissa; McCain, Nancy L.

doi:10.1002/2327-6924.12086

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“…The practice of meditation has also been found to be beneficial for physical health (Carlson, 2012;Robins, Kiken, Holt, & McCain, 2014;Tomfohr, Pung, Mills, & Edwards, 2015), and therefore these practices are useful to be incorporated into ordinary individual's day-to-day living.…”

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The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind

Karunamuni

2015

Sage Open

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The purpose of this article is to explore a model of the mind generally known as "the five aggregates" described in Buddhist teachings that relates to understanding subjective conscious experience from a first-person perspective. This model is explored as a potential theoretical resource that could guide meditation/mindfulness interventions. According to the five-aggregate model of the mind, all our experience involves material form, feelings, perception, volition, and sensory consciousness. The mind stream that is constantly changing from moment to moment is extensively analyzed in this tradition. This article explains that methodologies in neuroscience increase our understanding of neurophysiological underpinnings of mental phenomena and also provide important evidence on the practical utility of meditation. When considering moment-by-moment changes that happen in the mind, however, these investigations represent sensory consciousness followed by perception that happens within the mind stream itself. Practical applications of the model are also presented.

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Section: Applications Of the Five-aggregate Model Of The Mindmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind

Karunamuni

2015

Sage Open

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“…Mindfulness meditation has been reported to improve attention (Creswell, 2016;Hölzel et al, 2011;Sedlmeier et al, 2012), executive functioning (Gallant, 2016), working memory and retention (Brown et al, 2016), cognition (Zeidan et al, 2010), negative emotion and mood Wu et al, 2019), personality traits (Crescentini et al, 2018), creativity (Ding et al, 2014), stamina (Robins et al, 2014), and weight loss (Carrière et al, 2018;KayLoni and Emery, 2015). These findings were generated through various research with study design types ranging from quasi or randomized controlled experiments to systematic analysis.…”

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Mindfulness Meditation as a Complementary Health Therapy: A Useful Import into Africa?

Ajari

2020

EUROPEAN J ENV PUBLI

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Mindfulness meditation, a very common contemplative practice used to attain a conscious state of awareness, acceptance, openness and non-reactivity, was first modified in 1979 into a complementary health therapeutic practice. This practice has, since, gained the attention of scholars globally, with the greatest surge in interest seen in the last two decades. However, in Africa, research output on the psychological construct is very limited and certified trainers of the practice are almost non-existent despite the fact that the practice has been shown to relieve stress, a factor whose level is high in the continent, and has been associated with many common disease, illnesses and other negative outcomes. There is, therefore, an overwhelming need to draw public attention towards the practice and what it can offer African healthcare systems. However, this paper takes a neutral tone while creating this needed awareness, acting just as a guide towards unravelling the complexities of the practice and not as an advocacy piece promoting its implementation in healthcare systems across Africa. It achieves this aim by discussing the major reported positive and negative physiological effects of the practice; its application in the therapy of some common physical and mental disease/illness conditions; its benefits to healthcare workers and students, and informal caregivers; its limitations; the popular criticisms levelled against it; and factors in support and against its incorporation into African healthcare systems. The discourse is concluded with recommendation of strategies for refining the practice to suit the African healthcare scene.

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“…There are a wide variety of self-administered MBP, yet most of them share basic, easily accessible processes for achieving relaxation, enhanced attention, and mindful awareness. In self-administered MBP, breathing and gentle physical movement are paired with focused attention and mindfulness (or present moment awareness) [ 19 ]. Clinical trials evaluating various forms of self-administered MBP, including relaxation practices, yoga, tai chi, and meditation, have been shown to help various populations maintain health through self-regulation and stress resilience [ 20 – 22 ].…”

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Self‐Administered Mind‐Body Practices for Reducing Health Disparities: An Interprofessional Opinion and Call to Action

Kinser

Robins

Masho

2016

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Health disparities (HD) continue to persist in the United States which underscores the importance of using low-cost, accessible, evidence-based strategies that can improve health outcomes, especially for chronic conditions that are prevalent among underserved minority populations. Complementary/integrative health modalities, particularly self-administered mind-body practices (MBP), can be extremely useful in reducing HD because they are intrinsically patient-centered and they empower patients to actively engage in self-care of health and self-management of symptoms. Interprofessional healthcare providers and patients can engage in powerful partnerships that encompass self-administered MBP to improve health. This is a call to action for interprofessional researchers to engage in high-quality research regarding efficacy and cost-effectiveness of self-administered MBP, for practitioners to engage patients in self-administered MBP for health promotion, disease prevention, and symptom management, and for healthcare institutions to integrate self-administered MBP into conventional health practices to reduce HD in their communities.

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Mindfulness: An effective coaching tool for improving physical and mental health

Cited by 24 publications

References 75 publications

The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind

The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind

Mindfulness Meditation as a Complementary Health Therapy: A Useful Import into Africa?

Self‐Administered Mind‐Body Practices for Reducing Health Disparities: An Interprofessional Opinion and Call to Action

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