507 results for "Meditation"
Effect of Mindfulness and Mindful Art on Beginners and Experienced Meditators
arXiv Preprint Archive – August 24, 2023
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Regular meditation practice yields deeper relaxation, but newcomers can catch up quickly! A 21-day experiment compared beginners learning basic mindfulness with experienced meditators who added mindful art practices like drawing and painting. Remote sessions tracked vital signs and relaxation levels. While seasoned practitioners showed stronger in-session benefits, beginners made impressive progress, demonstrating that mindfulness benefits are accessible to all.
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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 Increases the Entropy of Brain Oscillatory Activity
Neuroscience – February 04, 2020
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Vipassana meditation significantly increases brain entropy, especially in alpha and gamma brainwave bands, demonstrating how long-term practice shapes conscious experience. This Neuroscience finding suggests meditation, akin to certain psychedelics, can endogenously elevate neural dynamics' complexity. Across various traditions, Vipassana consistently generated the highest entropy boosts. All practices also enhanced gamma band coherence. These insights, crucial for Psychology and Mindfulness interventions, reveal meditation's capacity to induce self-regulated, high-entropy brain states, offering a new perspective on awareness.
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We address the hypothesis that the entropy of neural dynamics indexes the intensity and quality of conscious content. Previous work established tha...
Engagement With Meditation Apps: Cross-Sectional Survey of Use and Associations.
Journal of medical Internet research – February 02, 2026
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Most individuals who download meditation apps engage minimally. A survey of 536 recent meditation app users reveals crucial insights into digital mental health intervention engagement. Users exhibiting greater readiness for behavior change, higher education levels, and more openness to new experiences showed increased app engagement. Higher perceived app quality and expectations for sleep also predicted more consistent use of these mindfulness tools. This highlights factors driving sustained interaction with meditation apps.
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Meditation apps are increasingly popular, yet there is limited understanding of how much users actually engage with them. While meditation apps sho...
PCC-hippocampal functional connectivity associated with stress biomarker changes after meditation training for healthy adults.
Neuroscience letters – May 23, 2025
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Brain imaging reveals a direct link between **Meditation** and our body's stress response. Researchers investigated how 8 weeks of **Meditation**, **Yoga**, or stress education affected healthy adults. Using **MRI**, they discovered only **Meditation** significantly altered specific brain connectivity. These neural changes correlated strongly with improved **Biomarker** levels, including reduced **Inflammation** and enhanced overall **Wellness**. This suggests meditation uniquely promotes **Wellbeing** by reshaping brain pathways linked to physical health.
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Meditation training has been shown to improve physical and mental health and promote neural plasticity, but more research is needed on the relation...
Mindfulness, Loving-Kindness, and Compassion-Based Meditation Interventions and Adult Attachment Orientations: A Systematic Map.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) – January 24, 2025
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Meditation interventions have important benefits, including potentially helping those with higher attachment anxiety and avoidance enjoy better per...
How does meditation relate to quality of life, positive lifestyle habits and carbon footprint?
Heliyon – January 15, 2025
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There is increasing scientific interest in the potential links between meditation practice and pro-environmental behaviours. The present research i...
Deconstructing the self and reshaping perceptions: An intensive whole-brain 7T MRI case study of the stages of insight during advanced investigative insight meditation.
NeuroImage – January 01, 2025
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The stages of insight (SoI) are a series of psychological realizations experienced through advanced investigative insight meditation (AIIM). SoI pr...
Meditation expertise influences response bias and prestimulus alpha activity in the somatosensory signal detection task.
Psychophysiology – February 01, 2025
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This study investigates the proposed mechanism of mindfulness, its impact on body awareness and interoception, and its potential benefits for menta...
EEG changes induced by meditative practices: State and trait effects in healthy subjects and in patients with epilepsy.
Revue neurologique – April 01, 2024
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The effect of meditation on brain activity has been the topic of many studies in healthy subjects and in patients suffering from chronic diseases. ...
Increased wakefulness as measured by the WAKE-16 is related to mindfulness and emotional self-regulation in experienced Buddhist meditators.
Progress in brain research – January 01, 2024
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We tested and validated the German version of a new instrument for measuring "wakefulness," defined as "an expansive, higher-functioning, and stabl...
Examining the Relation Between Practicing Meditation and Having Peak Experiences and Lucid Dreams. A Cross-Sectional Study.
Frontiers in psychology – January 01, 2022
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The aim of this study was to compare meditators and non-meditators in terms of their tendency to have peak experiences and their dream lucidity, wh...
Evaluating the Meditation Practices and Barriers to Adopting Mindful Medicine Among Physicians.
American journal of lifestyle medicine – March 12, 2025
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Background: Chronic pain affects over 25% of U.S. adults and is a leading cause of disability. Mindfulness meditation (MM) is a nonpharmacologic ap...
App-based meditation habits maintain reductions in depression symptoms among autistic adults.
Autism : the international journal of research and practice – June 01, 2024
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Existing research has identified an increased risk of depression among autistic adults, which can negatively impact their adaptive functioning abil...
The Mediating Role of Precepts and Meditation on Attachment and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) – July 03, 2023
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Research shows that Buddhist precept adherence (i.e., abstaining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and intoxicant use) and meditati...
Doing what matters in times of stress: No-nonsense meditation and occupational well-being in COVID-19.
PloS one – January 01, 2023
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While the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the general public's health and well-being, it exacerbated the pre-existing well-being issues in the educati...
Modulation of Event-related Potentials of Visual Discrimination by Meditation Training and Sustained Attention.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience – August 01, 2019
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Intensive meditation training can fundamentally alter how the brain processes visual information, boosting our ability to discern details. Researchers explored if focused-attention meditation could improve brain signals related to attention and perception during sustained visual tasks. Participants underwent two 3-month meditation retreats. In one, visual task difficulty was adjusted to their improving skill; in the other, it remained constant. The constant difficulty group showed positive changes in early sensory processing and reduced attention decline, directly correlating with enhanced visual discrimination. This reveals meditation training successfully improves brain markers for perception and attentional control, but only when the task difficulty allows one's capacity to surpass the challenge.
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The ability to discriminate among goal-relevant stimuli tends to diminish when detections must be made continuously over time. Previously, we repor...
View, meditation, action: A Tibetan framework to inform psychedelic-assisted therapy
Journal of Psychedelic Studies – March 28, 2023
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Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practices offer profound insights for modern psychedelic-assisted therapy. Integrating a three-part framework—view, meditation, and action—significantly enhances therapeutic efficacy, optimizing experiences from substances like Ayahuasca. While current psychedelic and drug studies often overlook these traditions, this psychology-informed approach guides psychotherapists. It involves intensive preparatory sessions and repeated dosing for mindfulness, integrating non-ordinary experiences. Considering the chemical synthesis of alkaloids and their impact on aesthetics, plus olfactory and sensory function studies, can further refine protocols for deeper healing.
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Abstract Whether occasioned through careful, consistent meditative practice or through quicker means like the ritual ingestion of psilocybin or aya...
Meditation and psychedelics facilitate similar types of mystical, psychological, and philosophical-existential insights predictive of wellbeing: A qualitative-quantitative approach
OpenAlex – June 06, 2025
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Profound transformative experiences, vital for mental health, are not exclusive to psychedelics. Narrative accounts from 147 psychedelic and 66 meditation experiences reveal strikingly similar insights. While Mystical-type insights were more frequent in meditation, value insights were common in psychedelic experiences, a key finding for drug studies. These insights span Psychological, Philosophical-existential, and Mysticism themes, enriching our epistemology of self-understanding. Metacognitive and value insights improved positive affect; Mysticism predicted increased meaning. Both meditation and psychedelic substances offer deep pathways for personal growth, valuable for any psychotherapist addressing existential well-being.
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Both psychedelic substances and meditation have been proposed to facilitate personally meaningful and transformative experiences, with insights pla...
Psychedelics and Meditation: A Neurophilosophical Perspective
Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation – January 01, 2022
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Our sense of self, often seen as fixed, can be profoundly shifted by both psychedelics and meditation. A neurophilosophical perspective reveals deep commonalities. Both impact overlapping brain networks tied to self-perception and attention, fostering lasting mindfulness. They can weaken foundational beliefs about identity, allowing us to see thoughts as separate from self. This framework offers insights into meditation's potential benefits for understanding reality.
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Psychedelic ingestion and meditative practice are both ancient methods for altering consciousness that became widely known in Western society in th...
Feasibility Testing a Meditation App for Professionals Working With Youth in the Legal System: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 2 Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR research protocols – April 24, 2025
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Probation officers and other professionals in the juvenile legal system face immense workplace stress. A new digital mental health initiative aims to help by testing a mobile app designed to boost emotion regulation through mindfulness meditation. This remote pilot trial involves 50 officers, comparing a specialized meditation app against a control. It uses ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to track real-time emotion regulation and objective app usage. The goal is to demonstrate this mhealth tool's feasibility and positive impact, making mindfulness widely accessible to support mental wellbeing in high-stress workplace roles.
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Probation officers and other professionals who work with youth in the legal system often experience high chronic workplace stress, which can contri...
Evaluation of a Five-Minute Meditation Intervention During Weekly Palliative Care Clinical Rounds.
Journal of palliative medicine – April 26, 2025
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Introduction: Palliative care professionals experience high levels stress and burnout. Meditation improves stress and well-being, with group interv...
Global landscape and hotspot analysis of meditation research in cancer: a bibliometric study.
Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice – April 05, 2025
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Meditation is well known for its positive effects on recovery and quality of life enhancement among cancer patients. Meditation as an adjuvant ther...
Feasibility of a Telephone-Delivered Group Meditation Intervention for Chronically Ill Socially Isolated Older Adults.
Clinical gerontologist – January 01, 2025
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This pilot study assessed the feasibility of a group-based telephone-delivered meditation intervention to reduce social isolation in older adults. ...
Meditation for perioperative pain and anxiety: A systematic review.
Brain and behavior – July 01, 2024
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Effective pain and anxiety management during the perioperative phase remains a challenge for patients undergoing surgeries and other invasive proce...
Meditation Practice, Mindfulness, and Pain-Related Outcomes in Mindfulness-Based Treatment for Episodic Migraine.
Mindfulness – April 01, 2023
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Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have emerged as promising prophylactic episodic migraine treatments. The present study investigated biopsych...
Intensive Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Frequency and Burden of Migraine: An Unblinded Single-Arm Trial.
Mindfulness – February 01, 2023
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Preventing migraine headaches and improving the quality of life for patients with migraine remains a challenge. We hypothesized intensive meditatio...
Mindfulness or meditation therapy for Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
European journal of neurology – August 01, 2023
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide. Mindfulness and meditation therapies have been demonstrate...
Effectiveness of a Mindfulness Meditation App Based on an Electroencephalography-Based Brain-Computer Interface in Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR mHealth and uHealth – May 03, 2023
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Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) can generate considerable physical and psychological discomfort ...
Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations
arXiv Preprint Archive – March 21, 2016
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Brain scans reveal that different types of meditation activate distinct neural pathways, much like how various forms of exercise target different muscle groups. This comprehensive analysis of brain imaging data from 527 meditators showed that focused attention, mantra practice, open awareness, and compassion meditation each create unique activation patterns in the brain, aligning with their intended benefits. Some brain regions, like those linked to self-awareness and attention control, activate across multiple meditation styles.
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Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically r...
Effect of Brief Meditation Intervention on Attention: An ERP Investigation
arXiv Preprint Archive – September 26, 2022
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Just ten minutes of meditation can significantly sharpen your attention and mental focus. Brain activity measurements reveal that brief meditation sessions help people respond faster and more accurately during attention-demanding tasks. The practice enhances positive brain signals while reducing interference patterns, suggesting more efficient mental processing. These neural benefits appear even in complete meditation beginners, highlighting meditation's immediate cognitive advantages.
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Fast and efficient strategies for modulation of attention have been extensively studied recently. The present study has attempted to observe the ef...
Reducing Stress and Anxiety in the Metaverse: A Systematic Review of Meditation, Mindfulness and Virtual Reality
arXiv Preprint Archive – September 29, 2022
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Virtual reality meditation shows promising results in reducing stress and anxiety, with users reporting up to 40% decrease in stress levels after immersive sessions. VR environments, designed with human-computer interaction (cs.HC) principles, create peaceful digital spaces where users practice guided meditation and mindfulness exercises. Analysis of 19 studies reveals that immersive natural settings, like virtual forests and beaches, combined with calming audio, significantly improve relaxation outcomes compared to traditional meditation methods.
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Meditation, or mindfulness, is widely used to improve mental health. With the emergence of Virtual Reality technology, many studies have provided e...
Exploring the Impact of Different Mindfulness Meditation Interventions on College Students' Resilience: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress – August 01, 2025
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Even brief mindfulness meditation can immediately calm the body's stress response. A study on college students demonstrated that just a few moments of mindfulness meditation significantly reduced blood pressure and improved heart rate variability. An 8-week mindfulness meditation program further enhanced resilience among college students, with these positive effects sustained long-term. This indicates that various mindfulness meditation practices offer effective ways for college students to manage stress and build lasting resilience.
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Resilience helps mitigate the negative impacts of stress and promotes effective adaptation in adverse situations. This study investigated the impac...
Neuromeditation: The Science and Practice of Combining Neurofeedback and Meditation for Improved Mental Health
Smart Biofeedback - Perspectives and Applications – September 28, 2020
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Brain training meets mindfulness: New research shows combining EEG feedback with meditation can help people achieve deeper states of focus and relaxation in less time. By monitoring real-time brainwave patterns, practitioners receive instant feedback about their mental state, helping them recognize and maintain desired meditation states. This approach shows promise for treating anxiety, ADHD, and PTSD by teaching patients to better regulate their mental states.
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Beginning meditators often complain that they do not know if they are “doing it right” or give up before realizing significant benefits. Advanced m...
Dynamic brain states underlying advanced concentrative absorption meditation: A 7-T fMRI-intensive case study.
Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) – January 01, 2025
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Advanced meditation consists of states and stages of practice that unfold with mastery and time. Dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) analysis of ...
Dhyana yoga, the path of meditative being: Psychotherapeutic insights from the east.
Asian journal of psychiatry – June 01, 2025
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Eastern spiritual traditions offer insights into the mind-body approaches to enhance health and well-being. These insights focus on self-awareness ...
Consumer-Grade Neurofeedback With Mindfulness Meditation: Meta-Analysis.
Journal of medical Internet research – April 17, 2025
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There is burgeoning interest in the application of neuroscientific technology to facilitate meditation and lead to beneficial psychological outcome...
Neurobehavioural Correlates of Breath Meditation in Novice Adolescents: Insights from Anapanasati-based Paradigm.
Annals of neurosciences – April 02, 2025
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Breath-awareness practices contribute to stress management and psychological well-being among adolescents. However, their neurobehavioural effects ...
Randomized Trial: A Pilot Study Investigating the Effects of Transcendental Meditation and Yoga Through Retinal Microcirculation in Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Journal of clinical medicine – January 03, 2025
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Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death, and psychosocial stress is considered a contributing factor to these i...
Residential Meditation Retreats: A Promise of Sustainable Well-Being?
Cureus – November 01, 2024
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Meditation retreats are structured programs that immerse participants in focused meditation, mindfulness, and self-reflection over extended periods...
Peace through health: traditional medicine meditation in the prevention of collective stress, violence, and war.
Frontiers in public health – January 01, 2024
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In the midst of global armed conflicts, notably the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars, there is an urgent need for innovative public health stra...
Psychosis or spiritual emergency? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of case reports of extreme mental states in the context of meditation.
Transcultural psychiatry – October 01, 2019
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Meditation is becoming increasingly popular in the West and research on its effects is growing. While studies point to various benefits of meditati...
Prevalence and factors of meditation and yoga practice in the USA: How cancer and anxiety correlate.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer – February 13, 2025
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Research has shown that mind-body practices like meditation and yoga can improve quality of life among female cancer survivors. Yet, correlates of ...
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Meditation, Compassionate Love, and Mental Health in Later Life.
Journal of gerontological nursing – March 01, 2024
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Understanding of the mechanisms by which meditation imparts beneficial effects on later-life mental health is limited. The current study assessed t...
Convolutional neural networks for classifying healthy individuals practicing or not practicing meditation according to the EEG data.
Vavilovskii zhurnal genetiki i selektsii – December 01, 2023
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The development of objective methods for assessing stress levels is an important task of applied neuroscience. Analysis of EEG recorded as part of ...
The Effect of Moving Meditation Exercise on Depression and Sleep Quality of the Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Study.
Holistic nursing practice
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The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of moving meditation exercise training on depression level and sleep quality in the elderl...
Meditation and Its Mental and Physical Health Benefits in 2023.
Cureus – June 01, 2023
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This article discusses the power of meditation and how beneficial it is for the body. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown many positive brai...
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Nursing Students' Stress and Anxiety Levels.
Nursing education perspectives
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a virtual mindfulness meditation intervention on stress and anxiety levels of 145 nursing stud...
Impact of Heartfulness meditation practice on anxiety, perceived stress, well-being, and telomere length.
Frontiers in psychology – January 01, 2023
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Exhaustion, stress, and burnout have all been found to be reduced using techniques like yoga and meditation. This study was carried out to check th...
Meditation Experiences, Self, and Boundaries of Consciousness
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine – January 01, 2016
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Our perception of reality may involve a subtle delay as senses integrate with an internal "default space." A new model proposes our senses layer onto an existing 3D intrapersonal space, explaining a unified mind-body connection. Meditation experiences demonstrate how this inner self is perceived, linked to physiological changes like heart-brain synchronization. This practice fosters a calm state, enhancing the experience of self. Understanding this space could unlock mysteries of memory and cognition, offering clinicians proven techniques to reduce stress and treat mind disorders.
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Our experiences with the external world are possible mainly through vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell providing us a sense of reality. How t...
Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) – December 01, 2015
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Intensive meditation training can profoundly shift how we react to others' pain. A three-month retreat, focusing on attention and compassion, led participants to show more empathetic sadness and significantly less aversion, like anger or disgust, when viewing suffering. This suggests dedicated practice enhances sympathetic concern, fostering a more compassionate and less rejecting response to others' difficulties.
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Meditation practices purportedly help people develop focused and sustained attention, cultivate feelings of compassionate concern for self and othe...
Effectiveness of Anapanasati Meditation on Internal Locus of Control, Psychological Well-being, Resilience and Altruism Among Orphan Adolescents.
Annals of neurosciences – January 10, 2026
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Anapanasati meditation significantly boosts well-being, altruism, and internal locus of control among vulnerable orphan adolescents. A three-month program, implemented with 54 orphan adolescents (compared to 54 non-orphan peers aged 13-17), demonstrated marked improvements in resilience from the second month. This simple, low-cost meditation effectively supports holistic growth, enhancing positive psychosocial performance for adolescents facing unique challenges. It offers a practical solution for resource-constrained settings, fostering a stronger sense of self-direction and compassion.
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Orphan adolescents face multiple vulnerabilities, including a lack of parental guidance, poor educational opportunities, socio-economic disadvantag...
Examining the Dose-Response Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Interventions on Well-Being: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR research protocols – July 29, 2025
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Understanding the ideal "dose" of mindfulness meditation for boosting well-being is crucial. This research explores if more practice time in internet- and mobile-based interventions leads to greater positive results. Healthy adults are randomly assigned to daily mindfulness meditation courses of 10, 20, or 30 minutes, or a short control. The goal is to clarify the dose-response relationship, expecting longer meditation sessions to significantly enhance well-being.
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Mindfulness meditation has demonstrated modest benefits for mental health and well-being, although the relationship between practice dose and outco...
Brief mindfulness meditation increases risk-taking behavior.
Scientific reports – January 30, 2026
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Brief mindfulness meditation surprisingly increases risk taking. Across two distinct experiments, involving participants from both the UK and Singapore, a short mindfulness practice consistently led to greater willingness to take risks compared to control groups. Computational modeling revealed this profound shift in decision-making stemmed from a significant reduction in loss aversion. This suggests mindfulness can subtly alter how individuals weigh potential losses, directly impacting their risk-taking behavior in various contexts.
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Brief mindfulness-based meditation exerts a potent influence on social cognition. What is not yet understood, however, is whether and how it impact...
Subject-independent Classification of Meditative State from the Resting State using EEG
arXiv Preprint Archive – April 25, 2025
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Brain wave patterns can reveal when someone is meditating with remarkable accuracy. Using advanced signal processing and machine learning, researchers developed systems that can detect meditative states from regular brain activity with over 96% accuracy - even in people whose data wasn't used for training. This breakthrough could help validate meditation practices and develop better mindfulness tools.
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While it is beneficial to objectively determine whether a subject is meditating, most research in the literature reports good results only in a sub...
Death and Happiness: Exploring the Temporalities of the Meditated Death and Everyday Life in Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Tukdam.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry – May 21, 2025
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In Tibetan Buddhism, masters can achieve a remarkable state called tukdam - remaining in deep meditation even after clinical death. This fascinating practice reveals how meditation on death paradoxically leads to greater happiness in life. Research in India shows that contemplating mortality through Buddhist practices helps practitioners develop compassion, resilience, and a clearer understanding of themselves. This approach to death transforms it from a fearful end into a powerful tool for living more meaningfully.
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Although tukdam-a meditative state entered through various practices resting in extremely subtle consciousness while dying-is seen to only be achie...
Meditation as a non-pharmacological treatment for narcolepsy: A literature review.
Sleep medicine – June 24, 2025
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Could behavioral strategies offer relief for narcolepsy? A review explored existing evidence, suggesting that non-pharmacological intervention like Meditation, particularly Mindfulness, presents a promising alternative. It found these practices may effectively reduce symptoms such as excessive daytime sleepiness, improving quality of life without medication side effects.
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Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hallucinations, and is often as...
Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory
CORE – January 01, 2015
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Ancient Christian contemplative practices, like the prayer of Recollection, offer profound insights into personal growth, surprisingly paralleling modern mindfulness techniques. This exploration suggests these mystical traditions, developed by figures like St. Teresa of Avila, share therapeutic dynamics with Buddhist Samatha Vipassanā meditation and even Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. Examining their processes through transpersonal theory reveals how these practices effectively navigate spiritual obstacles and foster deep psychological well-being. The findings highlight the enduring relevance and positive impact of these contemplative paths for personal transformation.
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This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill an...
Modulation of event-related potentials of visual discrimination by meditation training and sustained attention
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Did you know mental training can sharpen your visual focus? Research reveals that meditation practice significantly enhances the brain's ability to discriminate visual stimuli and sustain attention. When participants engaged in meditation while facing a consistent visual task, their brain activity showed improved early sensory processing. This indicates that developing perceptual capacity beyond a task's demands positively impacts attentional control and visual processing.
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The ability to discriminate among goal-relevant stimuli tends to diminish when detections must be made continuously over time. Previously, we repor...
The effects of Rajyoga mindfulness meditation training on heart rate variability in panic disorder: A randomized controlled trial.
Indian journal of psychiatry – March 01, 2025
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Panic disorder is associated with autonomic nervous system dysfunction and reduced heart rate variability (HRV). Enhancing HRV may help mitigate sy...
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Transcendental Meditation for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) – April 03, 2025
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Background and Objectives. Our recent systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies on meditation as treatment for PTSD (61 studies) found a m...