Topic: Mindfulness

Comprehensive Inventory of Mindfulness Experiences (CHIME)

❕Key Features * Measures trait mindfulness in adults * Initially validated in German * Meanwhile validated English versions have been published * 37 items

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Mindfulness meditation during difficult times

[This post is an updated version of my post "Mindfulness meditation during shutdown" (12-04-2020), written during COVID lockdown.

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Mindfulness Meditation Exercises

This growing section introduces and offers guidance for key mindfulness meditation exercises. Most of them are part and parcel of

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Why I love teaching mindfulness and character strengths to my students

About bringing Mindfulness-based Strengths Practice (MBSP) into Higher Education Sam was a particularly personable, warm, and good-natured student. He had

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Are online mindfulness courses effective?

Do online mindfulness-based interventions work? The most recent meta-analysis aggregates evidence from 97 randomised controlled trials. It concludes that mindfulness

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Mechanisms of Meditation: How do positive effects of meditation come about?

Here we summarise a long list of proposed mechanisms of meditation that outline how positive change resulting from mindfulness meditation

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Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)

❕Key Features * Measures trait mindfulness * The most widely used mindfulness questionnaires * 39 items * Includes five facets or sub-scales: observing, describing,

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Is mindfulness meditation harmful? [updated]

A comprehensive study based on a dataset of more than 2,400 participants in mindfulness-based stress reduction programmes found that

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Mindfulness in the Workplace

Mindfulness- based programmes enhance attentional and cognitive functions, improve the self-regulation of emotions and behaviour and positively influence our physiology.

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The 5 best mindfulness questionnaires

Introduction and Overview Mindfulness questionnaires belong to the standard toolbox of most meditation and mindfulness researchers. Scientists can choose from

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Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS)

❕Key Features * Trait measure of mindfulness * Not as frequently used as some of the more popular questionnaires * Captures the two

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Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS)

❕Key Features * A frequently used mindfulness questionnaire * State and trait version available * Items of the state and trait version are

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The Science of Mindfulness Meditation

A brief explanation of the science of mindfulness meditation, how meditation works from a scientific perspective, what psychology and neuroscience

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Mechanisms of Mindfulness - The IAA model

Mechanisms of mindfulness meditation: The Intention – Attention – Attitude model A good understanding how mindfulness meditation unfolds its beneficial effects is

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Mindfulness - History and Key Principles

The history of mindfulness-based stress reduction Mindfulness meditation entered public awareness through the pioneering work of Jon Kabat-Zinn (2007). In

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Mindfulness meditation: ten minutes a day improves cognitive function

Practising mindfulness meditation for ten minutes a day improves our cognition: after eight weeks meditators performed better in concentration tasks

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Meditation and ageing: Cognitive improvements in older adults

Yet another year is coming to an end and our time seems to be ticking away. Anyone feeling a bit

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From state to trait mindfulness

A recently published study suggests that increasing the ability to be mindful in daily life through mindfulness practice depends on

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The Liverpool Mindfulness Model

n my recent review paper on attentional control mechanisms in mindfulness meditation I also presented our Liverpool Mindfulness Model. The

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Mindfulness and Cognitive Control

An important ability in life is the ability to act automatically. Once we have learned how to ride a bicycle

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Mindfulness and obesity

Almost three weeks since the last post. NO! – meditation and mindfulness research did not come to a sudden standstill. I

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How mindfulness meditation works

Buddhist mindfulness practices have been around for more than 2500 years. Now, revamped in psychological, therapeutic and neuroscientific contexts, questions

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Mindfulness meditation reduces pain

Even brief engagement with mindfulness meditation reduces pain:  A few days ago, the Journal of Pain published a study carried

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Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI)

❕Key Features * Measures trait mindfulness * Particularly useful for assessing mindfulness developed through meditation practice * Includes two sub-scales: presence and acceptance

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