The Construct and Measurement of Peace of Mind

Lee, Yi Chen; Lin, Yi Cheng; Huang, Chin Lan; Fredrickson, Barbara L.

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“…From repeated measures ANOVAs and t-tests, we found that, compared with a control group, the participants' inner peace was improved by mindfulness training. As we have discussed, maintaining inner peacefulness is closely associated with the mode of being that is pointed to in Buddhism and Taoism (Lee et al, 2013;Mitchell, 2001). The present study provides the first empirical evidence that mindfulness meditation brings more inner peace in participants.…”

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“…Moreover, in Taoist practice, achieving inner peace is the ultimate intention (Lee, Lin, Huang, & Fredrickson, 2013). Thus, the two important schools of ancient teaching that have influenced Chinese culture emphasize the importance of inner peace in life (Lee et al, 2013).Mindfulness, described by Kabat-Zinn (2003, p145), is 'paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally', which involves consciously attending to one's moment-to-moment This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.experience (Brown & Ryan, 2003). There are several books that emphasize the relationship of mindfulness and peace (Nhat Hanh, 1992;Williams & Penman, 2011), and an earlier study with a sample of experienced meditators found that one of the primary intentions for engaging in meditation practice was inner peace (Shapiro, 1992).…”

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Can Inner Peace be Improved by Mindfulness Training: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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This article reports a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether mindfulness training can successfully improve inner peace in participants with no known mental disorder. Fifty-seven participants were randomized to either mindfulness training (n = 29) or wait-list control (n = 28). The experience sampling method was used to measure the fleeting momentary experience of inner peace in participants. In addition, we used an experimental approach to assessing ability to focus attention: the Meditation Breath Attention Score, as well as the self-report Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ). Compared with the wait-list control group, mindfulness training led to an increase in scores of inner peace, Meditation Breath Attention Score and FFMQ, using analysis of repeated measures analysis of variance. Change in inner peace was not, however, mediated by changes in self-rated mindfulness (FFMQ) nor by increased attentional focus. The findings provide first evidence suggesting that using mindfulness training improves the participants' inner peace. The focus here was on the immediate effects and future studies need to use follow-up. © 2013 The Authors. Stress and Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Mindfulness has been called the 'heart' of Buddhist meditation (Kabat-Zinn, 2003;Thera, 1962), an essential tool to help identify the inner causes of suffering, the possibility of freedom from suffering and the means to realize such freedom (Wallace & Shapiro, 2006). Over the past 30 years, mindfulness has received a great deal of research attention within educational, health and psychiatric settings, because of its demonstrated links to psychological and physical health benefits (Baer, 2003;Keng, Smoski, & Robins, 2011). Mindfulness-based interventions, such as the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) (Kabat-Zinn, 1990) and mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy (Barnhofer et al., 2009;Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002), have been shown to be successful in alleviating a variety of types of suffering, including reducing pain (Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth, & Burney, 1985;Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth, Burney, & Sellers, 1987;Samuelson, Carmody, Kabat-Zinn, & Bratt, 2007), stress (Astin, 1997), depression (Segal et al., 2002) and anxiety (Delgado et al., 2010). Several studies also demonstrate the benefits of mindfulness-based practice in non-clinical samples. For example, mindfulness training has been shown to improve one's social relationships (Bowen et al., 2006), produce increased positive affect, better immune system responses (Davidson et al., 2003) and better physiological responses to stress and negative emotions (Tang et al., 2009(Tang et al., , 2007. Moreover, mindfulness meditation is associated with changes in grey matter concentration in brain regions involved in emotion regulation (Hölzel et al., 2011).In Buddhism, inner peace is taught as the most important thing in our life. Gautama Buddha described nirvana as the ultimate goal (Mitchell, 2002). Nirvana is an ancient Sanskrit term used in Buddhism to de...

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“…The emotions are found to involve low stimulation, such as satisfaction and comfort, and high stimulation, such as joy and happiness (Fredrickson, 2013). The concept of subjective well-being that evaluates happiness from the excitation perspective can be said to neglect emotionality, which involves low stimulation such as peace and quiet (Lee, Lin, Huang, & Fredrickson, 2013). Therefore, this research has evaluated positive emotionality separately as the concepts of happiness and peace.…”

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“…The dimension of comforting emotions that the research arrived at can be said to define well-being's lack in relation to peace. Studies performed in relation to feelings (Fredrickson, 2001;Lee et al, 2013) and emotionregulation systems (Depue & Morrone-Strupinsky, 2005;Gilbert et al, 2008Gilbert et al, , 2012 have shown the importance of peace in the concept of well-being. The dimension of comforting feelings arrived at in the research appear related to the emotions involving low excitement and to psychological well-being.…”

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