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This study examines questions about the relationships that seem to exist between the goal of supporting personal agency in student writers and a specific meditation practice as implemented in the second semester of freshman composition. With both whole-class and individualized data sources, the study seeks to address changes in students' attitudes toward the meditative practice as well as their own senses of personal agency. In addition the study seeks to identify to what extent and in what ways do students articulate relationships between their use of meditative techniques in class and their own perceptions of their personal agency in writing. The individualized case studies examine students' reflective writings completed during one semester of data collection, in addition to their verbalized reflections discussed during an oral interview conducted at the end of that semester.

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Working in medical profession is stressful, and stress can affect performance, indirectly affecting patient care. Mindfulness has shown to decrease stress, which may improve patient care. At the East Tennessee State University Family Physicians of Bristol, there are no resources for learning mindfulness, so our goal was to educate all the medical professionals in our practice to learn mindfulness and evaluate the effect on their stress levels. First, a stress survey (Perceived Stress Scale) was administered to clinic providers. We presented instruction to clinic providers how to engage in mindfulness meditation. The technique of mindfulness meditation was taught by an expert through an audio clip. Six weeks after implementing the mindfulness meditation program, the Perceived Stress Scale was administered to the providers again to determine if their stress level had been reduced. Statistical analysis consisted of a t test. Higher scores on the Perceived Stress Scale indicate higher levels of experienced stress. The mean score in the pre-meditation condition was 16.71, and the mean score for the post-meditation condition was 12.62. The t test indicated that this difference was statistically significant, t(1,32)=2.14, p<05. The results of this study demonstrate that teaching healthcare providers skills regarding mindfulness meditation can significantly reduce their feelings of stress in the workplace. Future research should focus on examining if reducing stress has a measurable effect on patient outcomes.

Mindfulness has historically been cultivated via formal meditation practice and the majority of meditation research examines individuals with extensive training or participants in Mindfulness based stress reduction programs that require considerable expense, a trained facilitator, and take approximately 8 weeks to complete. However, current literature does not speak directly to those who do not have the time or ability for such commitments. Formal mindfulness meditation practice and interventions reduce stress in various populations; however, the outcomes of a one-time intervention are relatively unknown. This study aims to examine whether a one-time (20-min) mindfulness meditation intervention would improve cardiovascular variables during acute stressors in a meditation naïve sample when compared to a control group. Fifty-eight (58) normotensive undergraduate students (27 males, 31 females) with no prior meditation experience were randomly placed into either a treatment group that participated in one-time 15-minute audio training session on mindfulness meditation or a control group which listened to an audio health article. Following the training, participants participated in a psychosocial stressor modeled after the Trier Social Stress Test. Heart rate and blood pressure were assessed before and after the intervention and during the stress task. Results showed the mindfulness meditation condition group was effective in decreasing blood pressure response during the study, when compared to the control group. These results indicate that brief meditation training has beneficial effects on cardiovascular variables. These findings suggest that the benefits of a brief one-time mindfulness meditation intervention can be recognized immediately after a brief training treatment.

Mitos is a proposition for a meditation center in Alberga in Eskilstuna municipality, Sweden. The meditation center offers room for temporary as well as longer stay for visiting guests enjoying the centers dance halls, yoga and meditation studios and saunas. Study spaces and the restaurant on the main entrance floor welcomes the slope buildings most public section. The meditation center also includes group therapy, light room therapy as well as an x-ray room for scientific research in the buildings fourth floor office space.  The slope placement and step-like descent of the building with recycled pale bricks adorned with sedum roofs aims to blend in with the landscape, yet make a powerful contrast by it's tempel reminiscence and squared Symmetry. The building gets its latin name Mitos from being seemingly divided into two equal parts by a 6 meter wide "stramp" (a stair with a diagonally crossing ramp), referencing the cell division phases. The stramp connects with entrances into the step-like building lower part. / Mitos är ett meditationscenter, wellnessretreat och delvis rehabiliteringscenter beläget i sluttningen av en kulle på en avsides väg som leder upp från Alberga Centrum och söderut påväg mot Stora Sundby slott (se situationsplan). Suterrängen har agerat inspiration till idén om en byggnad som i trappliknande avsatser stegvis faller nedför landskapet. Meditationscentrets plats är vidare i hänsyn av siktlinjer då utsikten med siluetten av slottet i förgrunden av Hjälmaren på motsatt sida, utgör en närmast idyllisk landskapskuliss. Valet av material i form av återbrukat tegel och sedumtak är med viss vinkning åt slottets stapplade bleka tegelbandsdetaljer. Sammantaget ämnar byggnaden smälta ihop med landskapet snarare än kontrastera det, även om dess tempelllika och monolitiska anspråk av utrymme oifrånkomligt sticker ut from naturens organiska former.  Sedumtaken är försedda med takbrunnar för dagvattenhantering och fasaderna med hålrumsbrickor. Det första taken vid entrén är belagt med platta solceller som komplement till bergvärme. De två likartade byggnaderna separeras av en trappa med en ramp som löper diagonalt mellan varje avsats med dörrar intill byggnaden via trappan. Trappan fyller en sammanbindande funktion i syfte att främja rörelsen genom landskapet. Samtidigt agerar den som en slags separerande faktor apropå byggnadens namn Mitos, celldelningsprocessen.

Bakgrund: Stress är vanligt förekommande bland studenter och kan ge upphov till såvälpsykiska som fysiska besvär. Meditation som behandling skulle kunna vara ett alternativ förfysioterapeuter att motverka detta. Syfte: Att genom en systematisk litteraturstudie undersöka det vetenskapliga underlaget förmeditation som behandling och dess effekt hos studenter med stress. Metod: En systematisk litteratursökning efter randomiserade kontrollerade studier genomfördesi databasen PubMed. De utvalda studiernas kvalitet granskades enligt PEDro-skalan ochtillförlitligheten av resultatet bedömdes utifrån GRADEstud. Resultat: Åtta studier inkluderades i litteraturstudien. Sju av åtta studier visade en signifikantminskning i upplevd stress hos interventionsgrupperna jämfört med kontrollgrupperna.Kvalitetsgranskningen enligt PEDro resulterade i fyra studier med medel kvalitet respektive fyrastudier med hög kvalitet. De fyra studier med hög kvalitet som sammanvägdes visade alla enstatistisk signifikant förbättring, men tillförlitligheten av det sammanvägda resultatet bedömdesenligt GRADEstud vara låg. Konklusion: Meditation som behandling kan ha en positiv effekt på stress hos studenter. Merforskning krävs då tillförlitligheten till det sammanvägda resultatet bedöms vara låg. / Objective: Stress is widely occurring among students and can give rise to psychological as wellas physical problems. Meditation could be used as an alternative for physiotherapists to preventthese issues. Aim: The aim of this systematic literature study is to examine the scientific evidence formeditation as treatment and its effect in students with stress. Method: A systematic literature search for randomized controlled trials was conducted inPubMed. The quality of the included studies was examined using the PEDro scale and thereliability of the result was assessed using GRADEstud. Results: Eight studies were included in the literature study. Seven out of eight studies found asignificant reduction in perceived stress among the intervention groups compared to the controlgroups. The quality assessment according to PEDro resulted in four studies with moderatequality and four studies with high quality. The four studies with high quality all showed astatistically significant improvement, however the reliability assessed with GRADEstud wasconsidered low. Conclusion: Meditation as treatment may have a positive effect on perceived stress in students.However, more research is needed to determine the reliability of the effect.

Due to relatively recent strides made in the field of virtual reality, the technology's potential use in a clinical setting has been the focus of a growing body of research. Multiple studies focus on benefits of its combination with meditation interventions; however, few explore its impact following a short-term period of utilizing both. This investigation aims to explore that gap in the literature by determining whether an improvement on mindfulness and working memory test scores would be seen following a single session of virtual reality meditation. That was done by randomly assigning participants to one of two conditions. One group underwent a guided meditation while immersed in a virtual environment, while the other listened to the same audio within a blank environment. Each participant's working memory was assessed with an N-back task before and after meditation. Additionally, participants were given the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (Walach et al. 2006) to determine if there were any changes in mindfulness. There were no significant differences in mindfulness scores across conditions, conversely, pre and post working memory scores were significantly different in the virtual reality condition. Results suggest that a single session provides tangible benefits to working memory, opening the door for more in-depth investigations.

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