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Meditation and Metacontrol [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2017
In addition to longer-term engagement in meditation, the past years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of single bouts of meditation on cognition. In this hypothesis and theory article, we adopt the distinction between focused-attention meditation (FAM) and open-monitoring meditation (OMM) and argue that these different types of meditation ...
Hommel, B., Colzato, L.
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Meditation-Induced Psychosis: Trigger and Recurrence

open access: yesCase 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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Individual Differences in the Change of Attentional Functions With Brief One-Time Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Mindfulness meditation is increasingly used for clinical treatment and to improve well-being. One of the most fundamental benefits of mindfulness meditation is now considered as enhanced attentional control.
Masaru Tanaka   +9 more
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Evaluation of facial temperature distribution changes during meditation using infrared thermal imaging: An experimental, cross-over study

open access: yesJournal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences, 2023
Objective: To investigate the differences between meditation and resting states using infrared thermal imaging (IRTI) to determine facial temperature distribution features during meditation and annotate the patterns of facial temperature changes during ...
Raoying Wang   +9 more
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A Literature Review on Mantra Meditation

open access: yesMedical and Health Science Journal, 2023
Objective: Meditation has gained popularity in modern times as an adjunctive of therapeutic treatment. This study aimed to study meditation and use of mantra meditation in application of health problems.
Ravi Saini, Jitender Sorout
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Self development through scientific spirituality

open access: yesDev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal, 2013
In modern scientific age everything including the traditional spiritual practices get accepted only after proper evidence or logic is provided. Ācārya Śrīrām Śarmā had proposed scientific spirituality for evolution of every person; this contains four ...
PRAVIN KUMAR
doaj   +1 more source

Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Psychophysiology, 2016
A recent meta-analysis emphasises that meditation can improve attention in healthy adults (Sedlmeier et al., 2012). The findings of a study by Cahn and Polich (2009) suggests that there is an effect of a meditative state on three event-related potential (ERP) brain markers of low-level auditory attention in expert meditators: the N1, the P2, and the ...
Britta Biedermann   +8 more
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Meditation increases the depth of information processing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During meditation, practitioners are required to center their attention on a specific object for extended periods of time. When their thoughts get diverted, they learn to quickly disengage from the distracter.
Wolf eSinger   +11 more
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Eastern Christianity and Meditation

open access: yes, 2021
Eastern Orthodox Christianity has developed a wide variety of theories and practices of meditation. Among these, this chapter covers the contemplation of sins, the recitation of the Jesus prayer, hesychasm, and the contemplation of Divine Light.
Hovorun, Cyril,
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Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for work-related wellbeing and job performance: a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Due to its potential to concurrently improve work-related wellbeing (WRW) and job performance, occupational stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in the applications of meditation.
Singh, NN   +14 more
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