increasing pressure of stressors along with anxiety and depression reduce the human being’s ability to deal with simple issues of life. women who are often facing with stressful situations are more fragile and vulnerable than men. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of sahaja-yoga mindfulness exercises on reducing stress, anxiety and depression in women with stress, a...

The presence of psychotic-like experiences in the general population has been amply reported. Nevertheless, the degree of concern or anxiety that such experiences may generate is an aspect that has not received as much appraisal. In this sense, mindfulness is an approach to intervention based on the modification of the individual’s relationship with the symptoms, instead of their elimination. T...

OBJECTIVES Patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) suffer from significant dyspnea and may benefit from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies aimed at mitigating symptoms. The objective of this study was to test the efficacy of a mindfulness-based breathing therapy (MBBT) on improving symptoms and health-related quality of life in those with COPD. DESIGN We cond...

Many breast cancer survivors have to deal with a variety of psychological and physiological sequelae including impaired immune responses. The primary purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to determine the efficacy of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention for mood disorders in women with breast cancer. Secondary outcomes were symptom experience, health status, coping...

Introduction Early intervention on a first psychotic episode is fundamental for more favorable prognosis, and it usually combines pharmacological treatment, which mainly affects positive symptoms, with interventions that can improve the rest of symptoms associated problems such as deterioration in social functioning (Harvey & Penn, 2010; Fusar-Poli, McGorry Kane, 2017). While Mindfulness ga...

Swedish Massage Therapy (SMT) is known for its therapeutic relaxation effects. Hypertension is associated with stress and elevated endothelial inflammatory markers. This randomized control trial measured the effects of whole body SMT (massage group) or resting (control group) an hour weekly for four weeks on hypertensive women. Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were measured before and af...