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Defining Meditation: Foundations for an Activity-Based Phenomenological Classification System
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Classifying different meditation techniques is essential for the progress of meditation research, as this will enable discerning which effects are associated with which techniques, in addition to supporting the development of increasingly effective and ...
Terje Sparby +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 So far, the large and expanding body of research on meditation has mostly focussed on the putative benefits of meditation on health and well-being. However, a growing number of reports indicate that psychologically unpleasant experiences can occur in the
Marco Schlosser +4 more
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International Journal of Yoga, 2022 Context: COVID-19-affected patients showed increased stress, impaired sleep quality, altered complete blood count, and increased inflammatory and oxidative parameters.
SenthilKumar Subramanian +8 more
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Defining and Measuring Meditation-Related Adverse Effects in Mindfulness-Based Programs
Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2021 Research on the adverse effects of mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) has been sparse and hindered by methodological imprecision. The 44-item Meditation Experiences Interview (MedEx-I) was used by an independent assessor to measure meditation-related side
Willoughby B. Britton +4 more
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Mindfulness, 2023 Objectives This multi-arm randomized controlled online trial explored the effects of two key mindfulness characteristics (dose and type) over 2 weeks on mental well-being, along with psychological distress and dispositional mindfulness, in a healthy ...
Guy W. Fincham +2 more
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China
Religions, 2022 This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China.
Ngar-Sze Lau
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Meditation-Induced Psychosis: Trigger and Recurrence
Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2021 Meditation is regarded as a self-regulation approach to manage emotions. Meditation has a beneficial effect on mental health. Different kinds of meditation are practiced in many religions and cultures for the general wellbeing of an individual.
Sulochana Joshi +2 more
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Meditation affects word recognition of meditation novices [PDF]
Psychological Research, 2021 AbstractThis work represents one of the first attempts to examine the effects of meditation on the processing of written single words. In the present longitudinal study, participants conducted a lexical decision task and rated the affective valence of nouns before and after a 7-week class in mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, or a ...
Larissa Lusnig +2 more
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Mindfulness meditation increases default mode, salience, and central executive network connectivity
Scientific Reports, 2022 Recent research has begun to identify the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial impact of mindfulness meditation training (MMT) on health and cognition.
Benno Bremer +8 more
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Reducing Stress and Anxiety in the Metaverse: A Systematic Review of Meditation, Mindfulness and Virtual Reality [PDF]
International Symposium of Chinese CHI, 2022 Meditation, or mindfulness, is widely used to improve mental health. With the emergence of Virtual Reality technology, many studies have provided evidence that meditation with VR can bring health benefits.
Xian Wang +5 more
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