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AGNOSTIC MEDITATIONS ON BUDDHIST MEDITATION

open access: yesZygon, 2010
I first attempt a taxonomy of meditation in traditional Indian Buddhism. Based on the main psychological or somatic function at which the meditative effort is directed, the following classes can be distinguished: (1) emotion‐centered meditation ...
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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 and neurofeedback [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
Dating back as far as 1957, the academic investigation of meditation and the Asian contemplative traditions have fascinated not only the likes of philosophers and religious scholars, but researchers in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and medicine.
Tracy eBrandmeyer   +5 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman   +4 more
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Psychoneuroimmunology of Meditation

open access: yesAnnals of Neurosciences, 2022
Background: Meditation is a conscious mental discipline, that has been implicated in the relaxation response. The mechanism behind such a relaxing effect is psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), based on the interaction between mind, physical health, and self-healing; that conceptualizes that stress and an individual’s ...
Dipti Magan, Raj Kumar Yadav
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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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Focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation: effects on attention, conflict monitoring and creativity

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Meditation is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research and theories on meditation are becoming ever more specific. We distinguish between what is called Focused Attention meditation, Open Monitoring meditation, and Loving kindness
Dominique Patrick Lippelt   +2 more
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Arousal vs. relaxation: a comparison of the neurophysiological and cognitive correlates of Vajrayana and Theravada meditative practices.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Based on evidence of parasympathetic activation, early studies defined meditation as a relaxation response. Later research attempted to categorize meditation as either involving focused or distributed attentional systems.
Ido Amihai, Maria Kozhevnikov
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The Relationship between Philosophical Mindedness Components and Irrational Beliefs in School Principals [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Evolutionary Educational Psychology Journal, 2019
This research was carried out with the aim of investigating the relationship between philosophical mentality components and irrational beliefs (Ellis theory) in the school principals of three educational levels in Islamshahr in the academic year of 2017 ...
Pari Sosahabi   +2 more
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Meditations on memory

open access: yesEncounters in Theory and History of Education, 2008
Archives have often been thought of as the warehouses of collective or societal memory. This article explores the role of memory, in both its physical and metaphysical state, in the field of archival study.
Heather Home
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