{"id":31074,"date":"2020-03-08T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=31074"},"modified":"2020-02-08T04:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T09:10:27","slug":"study-suggests-certain-meditation-strategies-may-help-perfectionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2020\/03\/study-suggests-certain-meditation-strategies-may-help-perfectionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests certain meditation strategies may help perfectionists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mindfulness meditation with a focus on nonjudgment of emotions may help perfectionists recover from stress<\/strong>, according to a study published in\u00a0<strong><em>Psychophysiology<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\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<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<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><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release: Mindfulness meditation with a focus on nonjudgment of emotions may help perfectionists recover from stress, according to a study published in\u00a0Psychophysiology. The study used high&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2020\/03\/study-suggests-certain-meditation-strategies-may-help-perfectionists\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,338],"tags":[122,38,40,79,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31091,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions\/31091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}