Mindfulness Research Paper

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Mindfulness and Psychology Based Self–help Mobile Application: A Promising New Approach in Reducing Work Stress and Anxiety Dr. Shanthi Lakshmi Duraimani Uber Health Tech Pvt Ltd E–1/15–1, 1st Cross Syndicate Bank Colony Off Bannerghatta Road Arekere Bangalore Karnataka India 560076 Mobile Number–9741667563 Email–shanthi@zoojoo.be Abstract Nearly one–third of the working populations in most developed countries report high or extreme levels of negative stress. Over the last decade, the escalating costs associated with workplace stress indicate an international trend among industrialized nations. Stress is considered as one of the root causes for many psychological disorders. Anxiety is one of the common disorders…show more content…
Programs, which provide training and education lead to innovations which bring about changes in work organization. A survey carried out to assess the impact of psychological training programs on health care professionals stress found that trained nurses reported positive changes in their stress and anxiety levels [4, 5]. There are many de–stress programs have been found and seem to benefit the workers. Mindfulness meditation is one of the profound techniques scientifically proven to reduce stress and other psychological problems. Mindfulness is a standardized meditation program created in 1979 by Jon Kabat–Zinn from the effort to adapt Buddhist mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness is a state of mind in which one focuses on experience in the present moment in a non–judgmental way. [6] Originally, it was developed as a groupbased program for patients with chronic pain. [7,8] In the past two decades, it has been proposed as a treatment for many diseases, showing a good efficacy for many mental and physical disorders.…show more content…
[13–15] Neuroscience and psychological research suggest that the intentional practice of mindfulness increases gray matter in the brain involved in memory processes, emotional regulation, empathy, and perspective taking. More importantly, it reduces the bias towards negative thoughts.Adam Luke and Brian Gibson of Central Michigan University looked at how instructing white college students in mindfulness would affect their “implicit bias” or unconscious negative reactions to black faces and faces of older people. After listening to a 10–minute mindfulness audiotape, students were significantly less likely to pair implicitly negative descriptive words with black and old faces than were those in a control group. [16]From a neuroscientific perspective, a study from Harvard Medical School found that there was a significant cortical thickness increase in the right insula and the somatosensory cortex of Mindfulness–based Stress Reduction (MBSR) trainers, coupled with a significant reduction of several psychological indices related to worry, state anxiety, depression, and alexithymia.
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