Purpose Comprehensive fibromyalgia (FM) treatment requires medications, exercise and improvement of coping skills. However, existing exercise protocols exert inadequate analgesic effects and suffer from poor adherence. The central hypothesis of the study is that yoga practiced with concurrent substantive mindfulness will reduce pain-related fear, increase pain acceptance and pressure pain thres...

OBJECTIVES To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)-based intervention and determine if the intervention is associated with a significant signal on empathy and emotional competencies. DESIGN Two pre-post proof-of-concept studies. SETTING Participants were recruited at the University of Montreal's Psychology Department (Study 1) and the CHU S...

Mindfulness-based skills training has been increasingly incorporated into psychotherapeutic treatment for a variety of presenting complaints, most notably anxietyand stress-related disorders. While there has been considerable literature documenting efficacy of full mindfulness-based treatment regimen (e.g., MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction [MBSR]), fewer studies have examined the influence of ...

Mindfulness programs for schools are popular. We systematically reviewed the evidence regarding the effects of school-based mindfulness interventions on psychological outcomes, using a comprehensive search strategy designed to locate both published and unpublished studies. Systematic searches in 12 databases were performed in August 2012. Further studies were identified via hand search and cont...

OBJECTIVE To develop a scale for assessing mindfulness named Srithanya Sati Scale (SSS) in Thai context. METHODS Fourteen items were derived with the help from meditation experts. These were then validated by 16 mental health experts followed by analysis of their psychometric properties. A total of 466 subjects were purposively sampled from various sources. The construct validity of the scale...

This article describes the development and evaluation of the Engaged Living Scale (ELS) as a new self-report, process-specific measure to assess an engaged response style as conceptualized in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The psychometric properties of the ELS test scores were evaluated in both a nonclinical sample (N = 439) and a clinical sample consisting of chronic pain patients w...

There is mounting evidence that mindfulness meditation is beneficial for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, yet little is known regarding the neural mechanisms through which mindfulness modulates emotional responses. Thus, a central objective of this functional magnetic resonance imaging study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotionally laden s...

Citation: Sirgy MJ and Jackson PA (2015) How to enhance the well-being of healthcare service providers and their patients? A mindfulness proposal. The notion of mindfulness is key to developing ideas that can address how healthcare service providers (e.g., clinicians) can effectively enhance their own well-being in the workplace, and by doing so, increase the well-being of their patients. The s...

Dissociation can be defined as a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, and perception environment. Previous studies have reported negative correlation between mindfulness dissociation. Some authors also suggested that mindfulness-based interventions may relevant psychotherapeutic tools to treat dissociative symptoms. According Bishop et al.’s model m...