Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the principal forms of inflammatory bowel disease.
Both represent chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which displays …

Objective Meditation techniques are widely used as therapy and wellbeing practices, but
there are growing concerns about its potential for harm. The aim of the present study is to …

Meditation is a popular form of stress management, argued to mediate stress reactivity.
However, many studies in this field commonly fail to include an active control group. Given …

Mindfulness meditation represents a mental training framework for cultivating the state of
mindful awareness in daily life. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in how …

Background Mindfulness-based therapies are being used in a wide range of common
chronic conditions in both treatment and prevention despite lack of consensus about their …

Objective There has been substantial research and public interest in mindfulness
interventions, biological pathways, and health for the past two decades. This article reviews …

Improvements in stable, or dispositional, mindfulness are often assumed to accrue from
mindfulness training and to account for many of its beneficial effects. However, research …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), mainly including ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's
disease (CD), is an autoimmune gastrointestinal disease characterized by chronic …

Background and objectives Practices that include yoga asanas and mindfulness-based
stress reduction for the management of stress are increasingly popular; however, the …

Background Inflammatory bowel disease is associated with psychological comorbidity and
impaired quality of life. Psychological comorbidity could affect the natural history of …