Objectives As a result of participating in Project HEAL (Health, Energy, and Life at Work, a mindfulness-based stress reduction [MBSR] intervention), participants will demonstrate measurable differences from preto post intervention: 1. 10% increase in knowledge, skill, attitude, & behaviour 2. 10% improvement in perceived ability to effectively manage stress 3. 10% improvement in knowledge of a...

In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); the results suggest that increased mindfulness reduces the tendency to allow unrecoverable prior costs to influence current decisions. Study 1 served as an initial correlational demonstration of the positive re...

During adolescence, young people are traversing exciting and also challenging stages in their development. Mindfulness, if taught in a developmentally appropriate way, has the potential to be an asset in adolescents' lives. Developmentally appropriate approaches of mindfulness intervention during adolescence need to consider adolescents' social contexts (for example, school setting, peer group,...

Acute and long-term effects of mindfulness meditation on theta-band activity are not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate frontal theta differences between long- and short-term mindfulness practitioners before, during, and after mindfulness meditation. Twenty participants were recruited, of which 10 were experienced Buddhist meditators. Despite an acute increase in the theta activity...

In the Author Contributions section, Eutizio Egiziano (EE) should be listed as one of the persons who wrote the paper. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The ability to effectively direct one's attention is an important aspect of regulating emotions and a component of mindfulness. Mindfulness practices have been established as effective interventions for mental and physical illness; however, the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness and how they relate to emotional processing have not been explored in depth. The current study used a within...

If h(x) = |x| then we have P (|X| ≥ a) ≤ E|X| a. This is the classic Markov inequality. Note that without further assumptions, the bound is sharp. In particular, consider the deterministic random variable X = c. In the case when c ≥ a, P (|X| ≥ a) = 1 c≥a = E|X| a. We can get different bounds by investigating various choices of h.

Research suggests that mindfulness practices offer psychotherapists a way to positively affect aspects of therapy that account for successful treatment. This paper provides psychotherapists with a synthesis of the empirically supported advantages of mindfulness. Definitions of mindfulness and evidence-based interpersonal, affective, and intrapersonal benefits of mindfulness are presented. Resea...