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Effects of Singing Bowl Sound Meditation on Mood, Tension, and Well-being: An Observational Study
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine, 2017 Poor mood and elevated anxiety are linked to increased incidence of disease. This study examined the effects of sound meditation, specifically Tibetan singing bowl meditation, on mood, anxiety, pain, and spiritual well-being.
Tamara L. Goldsby PhD +3 more
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Post-training meditation promotes motor memory consolidation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Following training, motor memory consolidation is thought to involve either memory stabilization or off-line learning processes. The extent to which memory stabilization or off-line learning relies on post-training wakeful periods or sleep is not clear ...
Maarten A Immink
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Increased Gamma Brainwave Amplitude Compared to Control in Three Different Meditation Traditions.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Despite decades of research, effects of different types of meditation on electroencephalographic (EEG) activity are still being defined. We compared practitioners of three different meditation traditions (Vipassana, Himalayan Yoga and Isha Shoonya) with ...
Claire Braboszcz +4 more
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Impact Analysis of Meditation on Physiological Signals
JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization, 2018 Vipassana meditation is a type of mindfulness meditation technique mostly practices in southwest part of the globe, where relaxing but highly awake and alert mind state is achieved. Vipassana Meditation involvement was carried out for a group of mid-aged
Rahul Ingle, R N Awale
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Neuroscience of Meditation [PDF]
TSW Holistic Health & Medicine, 2006 Dhyana-Yogais a Sanskrit word for the ancient discipline of meditation, as a means toSamadhior enlightenment. Samadhi is a self-absorptive, adaptive state with realization of ones being in harmony with reality. It is unitive, undifferentiated, reality-consciousness, an essential being, which can only be experienced by spontaneous intuition and self ...
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Psychological Medicine, 1980 SYNOPSISPrevious research on meditation and the EEG is described, and findings relating to EEG patterns during meditation are discussed. Comparisons of meditation with other altered states are reviewed and it is concluded that, on the basis of existing EEG evidence, there is some reason for differentiating between meditation and drowsing.
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NeuroImageUsing a combination of fMRI, EEG, and phenomenology ratings, we examined the neurophenomenology of advanced concentrative absorption meditation, namely jhanas (ACAM-J), in a practitioner with over 23,000 h of meditation practice.
Avijit Chowdhury +7 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Meditation proficiency is related to trait-like (learned) effects on brain function, developed over time. Previous studies show increases in EEG power in lower frequency bands (theta, alpha) in experienced meditators in both meditation states and ...
John eThomas +2 more
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