{"id":5174,"date":"2020-02-07T03:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2020-02-07T03:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:06:26","slug":"certain-meditation-strategies-may-help-perfectionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/certain-meditation-strategies-may-help-perfectionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain meditation strategies may help perfectionists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mindfulness meditation with a focus on nonjudgment of emotions may help perfectionists recover from stress, according to a study published in\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/14698986\"><em><strong>Psychophysiology<\/strong><\/em><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study used high frequency heart rate variability to measure recovery from stress during mindfulness meditation sessions in 120 university students who scored high on a screening tool for perfectionism&#8211;the need to be or appear perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mindfulness meditation sessions that incorporated a nonjudgment element&#8211;or awareness and acceptance&#8211;led to better recovery compared with general mindfulness meditation sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This study extends the findings of mindfulness researchers and suggests the potential importance of nonjudgment of emotions and experiences during mindfulness practice for perfectionists,&#8221; said lead author Hannah Koerten, MA, of Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindfulness meditation sessions that incorporated a nonjudgment element&#8211;or awareness and acceptance&#8211;led to better recovery compared with general mindfulness meditation sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2094,848,626],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-meditation","tag-mental-health","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}