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Mindful Tutors, Embodied Writers: Positioning Mindfulness Meditation as a Writing Strategy to Optimize Cognitive Load and Potentialize Writing Center Tutors' Supportive Roles [PDF]

, 2018
In this article, I examine the potential that mindfulness meditation has to re-frame and expand the affective, supportive roles of writing center tutors.
Johnson, Sarah
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Transformation of the Linji School’s Perspective on Seated Meditation from Tang to Song Dynasties—From Negation to Returning of Seated Meditation

Religions, 2023
This study first examines the developmental perspective on seated meditation from Bodhidharma 達摩 to the Linji 臨濟 school of the Tang Dynasty. During this dynasty, the Linji school followed the criticism of physical seated meditation by the Southern school
Jing-Jia Huang
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Mindfulness On-The-Go: Effects of a Mindfulness Meditation App on Work Stress and Well-Being

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2019
We investigated whether a mindfulness meditation program delivered via a smartphone application could improve psychological well-being, reduce job strain, and reduce ambulatory blood pressure during the workday.
S. Bostock, A. Crosswell, A. Prather, A. Steptoe   +3 more
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Disentangling self from pain: mindfulness meditation-induced pain relief is driven by thalamic-default mode network decoupling.

Pain, 2022
For millenniums, mindfulness was believed to diminish pain by reducing the influence of self-appraisals of noxious sensations. Today, mindfulness meditation is a highly popular and effective pain therapy that is believed to engage multiple, nonplacebo ...
Gabriel Riegner, G. Posey, Valeria Oliva, Youn-hee Jung, W. Mobley, F. Zeidan   +5 more
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Enhancing Subjective Well-Being in Taiwanese University Students Through an Eight-Week Mindfulness-Based Program: A Pilot Study

Behavioral Sciences
While mindfulness has demonstrated extensive benefits across diverse populations, research on its integration as a formal course and its effects on subjective well-being (SWB), particularly among Taiwanese university students, remains limited. This pilot
Li-Jen Lin, Su-Ping Yu, Yu-Hsun Lin, Yi-Lang Chen   +3 more
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Common spatial pattern for classification of loving kindness meditation EEG for single and multiple sessions

Brain Informatics, 2023
While a very few studies have been conducted on classifying loving kindness meditation (LKM) and non-meditation electroencephalography (EEG) data for a single session, there are no such studies conducted for multiple session EEG data.
Nalinda D. Liyanagedera, Ali Abdul Hussain, Amardeep Singh, Sunil Lal, Heather Kempton, Hans W. Guesgen   +5 more
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The EEG spectral properties of meditation and mind wandering differ between experienced meditators and novices

NeuroImage, 2021
Previous literature suggests that individuals with meditation training become less distracted during meditation practice. In this study, we assess whether putative differences in the subjective experience of meditation between meditators and non ...
Julio Rodriguez-Larios, Eduardo A. Bracho Montes de Oca, Kaat Alaerts   +2 more
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Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism. [PDF]

, 2020
Clinical evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion regulation due to modulation of activity in neural substrates linked to the regulation of emotions and social preferences.
Alexander, Marcus, Christakis, Nicholas A, Irwin, Michael R, Iwamoto, Sage K, Nishi, Akihiro, Torres, Mark   +5 more
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Issues and perspectives in meditation research: in search for a definition [PDF]

, 2012
Despite the growing interest in the neurobiological correlates of meditation, most research has omitted to take into account the underlying philosophical aspects of meditation and its wider implications.
Awasthi, Bhuvanesh
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What Are Adverse Events in Mindfulness Meditation?

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2022
Mindfulness meditation has become a successful treatment of both physical and psychosocial ailments over the past decade. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) are now implemented in various clinical and
D. Binda, C. Greco, Natalia E. Morone
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