There has been a great increase in literature concerned with the effects of a variety of mental
training regimes that generally fall within what might be called contemplative practices, and …

Mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) are increasingly utilized to improve mental health.
Interest in the putative effects of MBPs on cognitive function is also growing. This is the first …

Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive
functions, including working memory Page 166 8 Review of the Evidence on, and Fundamental …

Two New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can
really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from …

Contemporary scholarship on mindfulness casts it as a form of purely nonevaluative
engagement with experience. Yet, traditionally mindfulness was not intended to operate in a …

This article reviews research and interventions that have grown up around a model of
psychological well-being generated more than two decades ago to address neglected …

The scientific interest in meditation and mindfulness practice has recently seen an
unprecedented surge. After an initial phase of presenting beneficial effects of mindfulness …

During the past two decades, mindfulness meditation has gone from being a fringe topic of
scientific investigation to being an occasional replacement for psychotherapy, tool of …

A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests
that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no …

This paper focuses on evidence for mindfulness meditation-related benefits to executive
functioning, processes important for much of human volitional behaviour. Miyake et al.(2000) …