The Journal focuses on meditation, compassion, prosocial emotion, emotion regulation, implicit affect. Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help the physical, mental, or emotional pains of another and themselves.

The need for social connection is a fundamental human motive, and it is increasingly clear that feeling socially connected confers mental and physical health benefits. However, in many cultures, societal changes are leading to growing social distrust and alienation. Can feelings of social connection and positivity toward others be increased? Is it possible to self-generate these feelings? In this study, the authors used a brief loving-kindness meditation exercise to examine whether social connection could be created toward strangers in a controlled laboratory context. Compared with a closely matched control task, even just a few minutes of loving-kindness meditation increased feelings of social connection and positivity toward novel individuals on both explicit and implicit levels. These results suggest that this easily implemented technique may help to increase positive social emotions and decrease social isolation.

The journal follows the Editorial Manager System for quality in the review process. Review processing is performed by the editorial board members of Journal of Yoga Practice and Therapy or outside experts; Authors may submit manuscripts online / through mail id: yogatherapy@epubjournals.com and track their progress through the online tracking system, hopefully to publication.

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Journal of Yoga Practice and Therapy
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