Mindfulness meditation involves attending to emotions without cognitive fixation of emotional
experience. Over time, this practice is held to promote alterations in trait affectivity and …

Chronic stress contributes to both mental and physical illness. A high prevalence and cost of
stress-related illnesses North America warrants investigation into alternative or …

Yoga practice, even in the short term, is supposed to enhance wellbeing and counteract
psychopathology through modification of emotion reactivity. Yoga teaches that emotional …

Meditation training can improve mood and emotion regulation, yet the neural mechanisms of
these affective changes have yet to be fully elucidated. We evaluated the impact of long-and …

The amygdala has been repeatedly implicated in emotional processing of both positive and
negative-valence stimuli. Previous studies suggest that the amygdala response to emotional …

This study examined mood enhancement effects from 4-week focusing attention (FA)
meditation and 4-week open monitoring (OM) meditation in an 8-week mindfulness training …

Discovering and promoting ways that help regulate emotions has been a recurrent concern
in the field of psychology, given that how one feels and reacts to and expresses emotions …

There is mounting evidence that mindfulness meditation is beneficial for the treatment of
mood and anxiety disorders, yet little is known regarding the neural mechanisms through …

Anxiety is the cognitive state related to the inability to control emotional responses to
perceived threats. Anxiety is inversely related to brain activity associated with the cognitive …

Meditation-based mental training interventions show physical and mental health benefits.
However, it remains unclear how different types of mental practice affect emotion processing …