Mindful meditation would help manage stressful events, depending on the results of a study published in the medical journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Researchers at the University of California at Riverside in the United States conducted a study with 150 law students to analyze the benefits of meditation on a stressful situation such as waiting for exam results, medical tests or response to a job interview.
For the study, students took a 15-minute audio meditation session at least once a week, while awaiting the results of their law school entrance diploma.
The most effective method would be that of “mindfulness”, or mindfulness meditation, developed in the United States in the 1970s to manage this expectation.
The researchers observed that mindfulness meditation has been shown to be effective in delaying the method of preparing for the worst, a counterproductive anti-stress method if it occurs too early before results. However, the researchers point out that being optimistic is not necessarily the right way to deal with any bad news.
“We know that rumination and worry are unpleasant and harmful to our health and well-being, so it is important to seek solutions to these types of painful mental states,” said Kate Sweeny, psychologist at the University of California to Riverside.
Mindful meditation allows you to give free rein to your thoughts and emotions in the present moment rather than avoiding them by distracting yourself, staying positive at all costs or on the contrary imagining the worst scenario.
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