Meditation practices for health: state of the research.

By M. Ospina, Kenneth Bond, M. Karkhaneh, L. Tjosvold, B. Vandermeer, Yuan-yuan Liang, L. Bialy, N. Hooton, N. Buscemi, D. Dryden and 1 more. Evidence report/technology assessment, 2007

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A SCHOOL‐BASED MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION FOR URBAN YOUTH: EXPLORING MODERATORS OF INTERVENTION EFFECTS (2012, background): “Yoga and othermeditative techniques have been shown to increase attention and self-regulation and reduce stress and improve functioning in adults (Arias, Steinberg, Banga, &Trestment, 2006; Kirkwood et al., 2005;Ospina et al., 2007; Pilkington, Kirkwood, Rampes, & Richardson, 2005; Shapiro, Brown, &”
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2011, methodology): “The data were independently extracted from the original articles by the reviewers using a comprehensive and pretested data extraction form (see appendix D1 and D2 in (Ospina et al., 2007)).”
Body Awareness: Construct and Self-Report Measures (2009, background): “From contemplative traditions, stress reduction methods borrow the practice of a particular attentional focus on subtle physical sensations, such as breathing, in order to relax into an ‘embodied’ awareness of mind-body integration [66] with early evidence of some health benefits [67].”
Mindfully Teaching in the Classroom: a Literature Review (2012, background): “Generally, there is considered to be no guiding theoretical framework for analysing mindfulness interventions, with research and discussion conducted in a fragmented fashion over a number of disciplines (Ospina et al., 2007).”
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states (2012, unknown): “, Gunaratana, 2002; Wallace, 2006), and an interdisciplinary scientific discussion has recently developed surrounding the possible cognitive and physiological mechanisms of meditation in light of its potential benefit for mental and physical health (Bishop et al., 2004; Chiesa and Serretti, 2010; Ch”
The Difficulty of Defining Mindfulness: Current Thought and Critical Issues (2013, background): “On the other hand, other meditation practices are mainly concerned with the development of an open monitoring of the whole sensory and cognitive/affective fields and include a meta-awareness or observation of the ongoing contents of thought (Cahn and Polich 2006; Lutz et al. 2008; Ospina et al. 2007”
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research on Mindfulness and Meditation (2015, background): “Other reviews and studies focusing on the health impact of meditation (Kok et al., 2013; Ospina et al., 2007) and the problems in the measurement of mindfulness (Brown, West, Loverich, & Biegel, 2011; Grossman, 2011) have appeared in the past 7 years, but a comprehensive overview of methodological…”
Mind the Gap in Mindfulness Research: A Comparative Account of the Leading Schools of Thought (2013, unknown): “…e of th e in di vi du al us er an d is no t to be di ss em in at ed br oa dl y. findings using MBSR echo the findings of meditation research (see Ospina et al., 2007; Chiesa & Serretti, 2010; Kabat-Zinn, 1996; Marchand, 2012; S. L. Shapiro, Walsh, & Britton, 2003; S. L. Shapiro, Schwartz, &…”
A systematic review of neurobiological and clinical features of mindfulness meditations (2009, methodology): “We have grouped them together in accordance with current research on meditation, which considers these meditations as belonging to the pole of mindfulness, at the opposite of meditative practices belonging to the pole of ‘concentrative meditations ’ such as Transcendental Meditation or Relaxation Re”
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Stress Management in Healthy People: A Review and Meta-Analysis (2009, unknown): “6,47 On the other hand the low quality of the majority of studies conﬁrms the problem proposed by Carpenter, who noted the scarcity of well-designed studies on meditation and underlined the necessity for higher quality design of future studies.”
Effect of Compassion Meditation on Neuroendocrine, Innate Immune and Behavioral Responses to Psychosocial Stress (2008, background): “…pathways, including the immune and neuroendocrine systems, which are modulated by stress and are relevant to disease development and progression (Taylor, 1995; Carlson et al., 2003; Davidson et al., 2003; Hidderley et al., 2004; Carlson et al., 2007; Ospina et al., 2007; Tang et al., 2007).”
School-based Meditation Practices for Adolescents: A Resource for Strengthening Self-Regulation, Emotional Coping, and Self-Esteem (2010, background): “Meditation, as an intervention for adults, has strong empirical support that has been explored in a number of literature reviews (Baer, 2003; Ospina et al., 2007; S. L. Shapiro & Walsh, 2003).”
The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis. (2012, background): “Another recent review by Ospina et al. (2007) lamented the low methodological quality of most studies but concluded that several kinds of meditation significantly reduced blood pressure and helped reduce stress.”