Mindfulness meditation has been proven to be effective in treating a range of mental and physical conditions. Mindful Art is a type of mindfulness meditation that comprises sessions of drawing, painting and sculpturing with mindfulness for a given length of time. To date, the efficacy of mindful art has not been systematically studied. In this paper, we describe an experimental pilot study on two groups of participants, a beginner group of 21 participants and an experienced meditation group of 9 participants, who had previously practiced mindfulness meditation for more than one year. The beginner group was instructed in mindfulness sitting and moving meditation, while the experienced group was instructed in mindful art making in addition to mindfulness meditation. The instructions were delivered remotely over Tencent Conference and WeChat. The sessions were of 90 minutes duration each, twice per week, with 45 minutes of home practice daily and the length of the study was 21 days. The blood pressure, pulse rate and breathing rates, as well as the subjective degree of relaxation were recorded at every session. At the end of the study, the experienced group reported higher average difference in breath rate and relaxation within each session, while the beginner group reported a greater degree of improvement in breath rate and relaxation over the period of the study, although their scores were lower on average than the experienced group.

翻译：正念冥想已被证明对治疗一系列心理和生理疾病有效。正念艺术是一种包含在特定时间段内以正念进行绘画、雕塑等活动的正念冥想形式。迄今为止，正念艺术的有效性尚未得到系统研究。本文描述了一项针对两组参与者的实验性初步研究：一组为21名初学者，另一组为9名经验丰富者（此前已练习正念冥想超过一年）。初学者组接受正念静坐和移动冥想指导，而经验丰富者组除正念冥想外还接受正念艺术创作指导。指导通过腾讯会议和微信远程进行。每次课程时长90分钟，每周两次，每日家庭练习45分钟，研究周期为21天。每次课程记录血压、脉搏率、呼吸率以及主观放松程度。研究结束时，经验丰富者组在每次课程内的呼吸率和放松程度平均差异更大，而初学者组在整个研究期间呼吸率和放松程度的改善幅度更大，尽管其平均得分低于经验丰富者组。