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The role of meditation in coping with stress during the COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional study of undergraduates in India

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted mental health worldwide, particularly among college students. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of regular meditation practice on stress and well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown in college ...
Puja Munjal, Neetika Khurana, Manish Saggar, Lalit Kumar   +3 more
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What Is Meditation? Proposing an Empirically Derived Classification System

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Meditation is an umbrella term, which subsumes a huge number of diverse practices. It is still unclear how these practices can be classified in a reasonable way. Earlier proposals have struggled to do justice to the diversity of meditation techniques. To
Karin Matko, Peter Sedlmeier
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Meditation reduces pain-related neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, insula, secondary somatosensory cortex, and thalamus.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Recent studies have shown that meditation inhibits or relieves pain perception. To clarify the underlying mechanisms for this phenomenon, neuroimaging methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neurophysiological methods, such as
Hiroki eNakata, Hiroki eNakata, Kiwako eSakamoto, Ryusuke eKakigi   +3 more
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The effect of a one-time 15-minute guided meditation (Isha Kriya) on stress and mood disturbances among operating room professionals: a prospective interventional pilot study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2019
Background: Operating room professionals are exposed to high levels of stress and burnout. Besides affecting the individual, it can compromise patient safety and quality of care as well.
Valluvan Rangasamy, Ammu Thampi Susheela, Ariel Mueller, Tracy F. H. Chang, Senthilkumar Sadhasivam, Balachundhar Subramaniam   +5 more
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Mindfulness-based interventions: Towards mindful clinical integration

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Edo eShonin, Edo eShonin, William eVan Gordon, William eVan Gordon, Mark eGriffiths   +4 more
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Virtual reality vs. imagery: comparing approaches in guided meditation

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis study compared the influence of virtual reality (VR)-based and traditional (e.g., imagery-based) guided meditation on stress and concentration levels among South Korean adults.
Minkyung Jo, Eunha Kim, Jaeyeon Lee
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Intrinsic neural timescales exhibit different lengths in distinct meditation techniques

NeuroImage
Meditation encompasses a range of practices employing diverse induction techniques, each characterized by a distinct attentional focus. In Mantra meditation, for instance, practitioners direct their attention narrowly to a given sentence that is ...
Bianca Ventura, Yasir Çatal, Angelika Wolman, Andrea Buccellato, Austin Clinton Cooper, Georg Northoff   +5 more
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“I was trying to save the world”: delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation

Frontiers in Psychology
Delusional ideation is characteristic of psychopathology (e.g., psychosis, bipolar disorder) and is also found among the general population. Contemporary case studies have documented delusional ideation as a feature of meditation-induced psychosis, and ...
Elizaveta Solomonova, Elizaveta Solomonova, Jared R. Lindahl, Ian Gold, Ian Gold, David J. Cooper, Charlotte Little, Damian Arteca, Chenxi Cao, Willoughby B. Britton   +9 more
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Meditation [PDF]

The Permanente Journal, 2005
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Cancer patient's experiences in using meditation for self-healing

Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2007
This hermeneutic phenomenological study aimed to describe and explain the experiences of using meditation as a healing method by persons with cancer. Ten informants were purposively selected form among patients who had been diagnosed with cancer and had ...
K Sungsing, U Hatthakit, A Aphichato
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