{"id":213940,"date":"2025-05-14T01:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/daily-mindfulness-practice-can-reduce-anxiety-for-autistic-adults"},"modified":"2025-05-14T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:03:34","slug":"daily-mindfulness-practice-can-reduce-anxiety-for-autistic-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/daily-mindfulness-practice-can-reduce-anxiety-for-autistic-adults","title":{"rendered":"Daily mindfulness practice can reduce anxiety for autistic adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just 10 to 15 minutes of mindfulness practice a day led to reduced stress and anxiety for autistic adults who participated in a study led by scientists at MIT\u2019s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Participants in the study used a free smartphone app to guide their practice, giving them the flexibility to practice when and where they chose.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness<\/i> is a state in which the mind is focused only on the present moment<\/a>. It is a way of thinking that can be cultivated with practice, often through meditation or breathing exercises\u2014and evidence is accumulating that practicing mindfulness has positive effects on mental health. The open-access study, reported<\/a> April 8 in the journal Mindfulness<\/i>, adds to that evidence, demonstrating clear benefits for autistic adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything you want from this on behalf of somebody you care about happened: reduced reports of anxiety, reduced reports of stress, reduced reports of negative emotions, and increased reports of positive emotions,\u201d says McGovern investigator and MIT Professor John Gabrieli, who led the research with Liron Rozenkrantz, an investigator at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a research affiliate in Gabrieli\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just 10 to 15 minutes of mindfulness practice a day led to reduced stress and anxiety for autistic adults who participated in a study led by scientists at MIT\u2019s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Participants in the study used a free smartphone app to guide their practice, giving them the flexibility to practice when and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}