Although clinical interest has predominantly focused on mindfulness meditation, interest into the clinical utility of Buddhist-derived loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM) is also growing. This paper follows the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews andmeta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines and provides an evaluative systematic review of LKM and CM intervention ...

Social entrepreneurship has recently become a much-desired area of research for academia, practices, and policymaking. Natural or cognitive personal thoughtfulness like loving-kindness meditation (LKM) compassion trigger individual intentions towards the social entrepreneurial venture. In this process intention personality trait plays very vital role, such as resilience. For study, purposive sa...

BACKGROUND Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a practice intended to enhance feelings of kindness and compassion for self and others. OBJECTIVES To assess whether participation in a 12-week course of LKM for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with improved positive emotions, decentering, and personal resources. RESEARCH DESIGN In an open-pilot trial, veterans ...

While it has been suggested that loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is an effective practice for promoting positive emotions, the empirical evidence in the literature remains unclear. Here, we provide a systematic review of 24 empirical studies (N = 1759) on LKM with self-reported positive emotions. The effect of LKM on positive emotions was estimated with meta-analysis, and the influence of vari...

background: management is the most important factor in success and survival of organizations. managers thus have decisive vital role in development of any organization. the purpose of this research was to assess the opinions and perceptions of executives and academic experts about islamic management components. methods: this study used qualitative content analysis to evaluate 14 academics who h...

This article presents the derivation of moral competence in nursing practice by identifying its attributes founded on Thai culture. In this process moral competence is formed and based on the Thai nursing value system, including personal, social and professional values. It is then defined and its three dimensions (moral perception, judgment and behavior) are also identified. Additionally, eight...

Optimal cancer care balances the need for scientific knowledge, statistical analysis, and rational thought with the need for wisdom, kindness, compassion, and love. Finding and maintaining this balance is one of the most important challenges inherent in creating optimal healing environments (OHEs) for cancer care. This new medical paradigm, which promotes awareness, healing, and transformation ...

This article explores the role of the heart in emotional experience, as well as how learning to shift the rhythms of the heart into a more coherent state makes it possible to establish a new inner baseline reference that allows access to our heart's intuitive capacities and deeper wisdom. The nature and types of intuition and the connection between intuition and compassionate action are discuss...

intellectual comments and tough questions but fair that led to the improvement of this thesis. Finally, and most importantly, I would like to thank my parents for their faith in me and allowing me to be as ambitious as I wanted. It was under their watchful eyes that I gained so much drive and ability to tackle challenges head on. In January 2013, I lost my darling mother to stroke. I was always...