Mindfulness

Compassion-based meditation practices, including Tonglen, offer promise for emotional self-regulation, yet Tonglen remains underutilized in contemporary clinical and applied settings. This paper introduces Hope Breath, a brief three-minute adaptation of Tonglen meditation designed to simultaneously downregulate negative emotions and upregulate positive states. The aim was to provide practitioners…

Abstract Objectives First-year college students navigating the transition into emerging adulthood face heightened psychological vulnerability, particularly within competitive academic environments. This study examined whether a mindfulness-based intervention can enhance mindfulness and reduce psychological distress, and whether these effects operate through emotion regulation strategies, includin…

Abstract Objectives Mindfulness-based interventions are effective in supporting a range of mental health outcomes for breast cancer survivors, yet they are not routinely offered as part of cancer care in Australia. Economic evaluations can support uptake decisions but are often limited by lack of context specific information on outcomes. This study conducted structured stakeholder engagement to i…

Abstract Objectives This study aimed to perform the cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Mindfulness Adherence Questionnaire (MAQ) for the Brazilian context, in order to offer an adequate instrument to measure adherence to mindfulness practice in mindfulness-based interventions. Method The adaptation process followed international guidelines for translation and semantic eq…