Increasing your mindfulness capacity supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfying life. Being mindful makes it easier to savor life's pleasures as they occur, helps you fully participate in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events. By focusing on the here and now, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to be trapped in worries about the future or regrets of the past, are less concerned with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to establish deep connections with others. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive narrative review of the effects of mindfulness on psychological health.
Carmody and Baer (200) examined the hours of contact in class and the sizes of the effects of the psychological outcomes reported in published MBSR trials, and found no systematic relationship between the two variables. There is also an increasingly important research body that points to a number of psychological processes that may serve as key mechanisms for the effects of mindfulness interventions. We concluded that mindfulness produces several positive psychological effects, including greater subjective well-being, a reduction in psychological symptoms and emotional reactivity, and better regulation of behavior. Perhaps that's why scientists are at least optimistic about the positive effects of meditation on aging.
Research suggests that mindfulness has the potential to help people who seek a variety of goals, including regulating stress and helping them deal with physical pain and the symptoms of chronic illnesses, as well as increasing effectiveness at work or school and in relationships. Mindfulness-oriented interventions have been shown to improve psychological health in non-clinical populations and effectively treat a variety of psychological and psychosomatic conditions. The effects of mindfulness meditation tend to be dose-related: the more you do it, the more effect it will normally have. While the other two groups showed a decrease in the positive emotional response to neutral slips from pre-induction to post-induction, those assigned to the condition of concentrated breathing maintained consistent positive responses to neutral slippings.
Studies reviewed so far indicate that mindfulness measures are related to various psychological health indices and that mindfulness interventions have a positive impact on psychological health. These effects ranged from greater subjective well-being, a reduction in psychological symptoms and emotional reactivity, to better regulation of behavior. In addition to correlational and clinical intervention research on mindfulness, a third line of empirical research has examined the immediate effects of brief mindfulness interventions in controlled laboratory settings on a variety of emotion-related processes, including state recovery. dysphoric mood, emotional reactivity to aversive or emotionally provocative stimuli and willingness to return to or persist in an unpleasant task.
Overall, evidence from correlational research suggests that mindfulness is positively associated with a variety of psychological health indicators, such as higher levels of positive affect, satisfaction with life, vitality and adaptive emotional regulation, and lower levels of negative and psychopathological affect symptoms. Several studies reported that increases in experiential acceptance mediated the effects of ACT on a variety of psychological outcomes, including workplace stress (Bond %26 Bunce, 2000), smoking cessation (Gifford et al. .
