How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective

By Britta K. Hölzel, Sara W. Lazar, T. Gard, Zev Schuman-Olivier, David R. Vago, Ulrich Ott. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011

1,135 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9cc501b90381f125b1ea8747cf661cedf9dd144a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

In Psychiatry and Mental health

Citations in the corpus

Promoting Stress Management and Wellbeing in Educators: Feasibility and Efficacy of a School-Based Yoga and Mindfulness Intervention (2016, background): “CIs can alter the neural substrates underlying attentional regulation and executive functions, body awareness, emotion regulation, and perspectives on the self (Hölzel et al. 2011; Mind and Life Education Research Network 2012).”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “…that one is an outside observer to one’s own self is sometimes referred to as “decentering” in the mindfulness literature (Brown, Ryan, & Creswell, 2007; Holzel et al., 2011; Vago & Silbersweig, 2012), allowing the meditation practitioner to reduce strong identification with thoughts and emotions.”
Executive Functions (2012, positive): “EF demands need to be continually incrementally increased or few gains are seen (Bergman Nutley et al. 2011, Holmes et al. 2009, Klingberg et al. 2005).”
The Difficulty of Defining Mindfulness: Current Thought and Critical Issues (2013, background): “…emphasized by traditional mindfulness trainings such as empathy (Lutz et al. 2008), (c) emotional regulation, such as the possibility to reduce emotional interference (e.g., Ortner et al. 2007), and (d) changes in the perspective of the self (for a more detailed overview, see Hölzel et al. 2011).”
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness (2012, background): “…change during and in response to both FA and OM meditation training has been the DLPFC, the ACC, and the insula [see Lutz et al. (2007); Chiesa and Serretti (2010); Rubia (2009); Holzel et al. (2011a) for review], suggesting FPCN and EPS-related processing is heavily influenced through training.”
RESILIENCE TRAINING THAT CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN (2018, background): “…function, subjective wellbeing, and socialrelationship quality Amygdala, PFC Sayers, Creswell, and Taren (2015); Creswell and Lindsay (2014); Holzel et al. (2011); Tang, Hölzel, and Posner (2015); Guendelman, Medeiros, and Rampes (2017) Cognitive therapy Effective treatment for depression…”
How do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction improve mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of mediation studies. (2015, background): “, 2006), bodily awareness (Hölzel et al., 2011), selfawareness, -regulation and -transcendence (Vago & Silbersweig, 2012) as key mechanisms which work alongside empirically-tested”
Mindfulness Interventions. (2017, positive): “These include psychological processes such as acceptance and emotion regulation skills (H¨olzel et al. 2011b, Lindsay & Creswell 2015), exposure (Baer 2003), reducing ruminative thoughts (Jain et al. 2007), or changing aspects of one’s self-concept (e.g., quieting the egoic self) (Carlson 2013,…”
The Potential Benefits of Mindfulness Training in Early Childhood: A Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (2012, background): “…Van Broeck, & Philippot, 2009; Mind and Life Education Research Network, in press; Zeidan, Johnson, Diamond, David, & Goolkasian, 2010; Zylowska et al., 2008) and that it is associated with greater activation in the PFC networks underlying selfregulation (see Hölzel et al., 2011, for a review).”
Mind The Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation (2017, neutral): “No one theoretical model (e.g., Garland, Farb, Goldin, & Fredrickson, 2015; Grabovac et al., 2011; Hölzel et al., 2011; S. L. Shapiro et al., 2006; Vago & Silbersweig, 2012) can possibly describe, explain, and predict all of the phenomena stemming from the panoply of facets that “mindfulness,” broa”
Associations Between Mindfulness, Psychological Well-Being, and Subjective Well-Being with Respect to Contemplative Practice (2014, positive): “…mindfulness and well-being has received considerable empirical and theoretical attention in the scientific literature, with researchers hypothesizing a number of ways in which the two interact (Chambers et al. 2009; Farb et al. 2012; Garland et al. 2011; Hölzel et al. 2011; Shapiro et al. 2006).”
The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) (2012, background): “Body awareness, although integral to the mindfulness construct [53,94,97,103], has not been assessed as such in mindfulness instruments.”