Results 1 to 10 of about 282 (138)
Contemplation: Its Cultivation and Culmination Through the Buddhist Glasses [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Buddhist account of consciousness provides a new way of looking into contemplation, where absorption into meditation does not only bring in changes in the neural level but in the very personality of the individual, turning him into a good human being ...
Madhumita Chattopadhyay +1 more
doaj +2 more sources
Effect of ānāpāna meditation on attention and mental well-being in secondary school students: a mixed-methods evaluation [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionThe present study was designed to evaluate the effect of regular ānāpāna practice, a beginning step of vipassanā meditation, in the framework of the MITRA program, over one academic year, on attention and mental well-being among secondary ...
Neelam Oswal +2 more
doaj +2 more sources
Transcending Gender: Female Non-Buddhists’ Experiences of the Vipassanā Meditation Retreat
Religions, 2018 Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self ...
Brooke Schedneck
doaj +2 more sources
Religions, 2021 This paper examines how the teaching of embodied practices of transnational Buddhist meditation has been designated for healing depression explicitly in contemporary Chinese Buddhist communities with the influences of Buddhist modernism in Southeast Asia
Ngar-sze Lau
doaj +2 more sources
Effects of Anapana Meditation Technique in School Children
Nepal Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2022 Ānāpāna is a type of meditation in which the incoming and departing natural breaths are used as meditation objects. S.N. Goenka, a vipassana teacher from the Ledi Sayadaw lineage, has created a special meditation course for schoolchildren called ...
Mukti Prasad Pandey
doaj +1 more source
Enhanced dehydroepiandrosterone levels are positively correlated with N3 sleep stage in long-term mindfulness meditation practitioners [PDF]
Sleep Science, 2022 Objectives: Meditation practices positively influence the neural, hormonal and autonomic systems. We have demonstrated that long-term practice of mindfulness meditation increases N3 and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stages and bring efficient autonomic ...
Ravindra P. Nagendra +2 more
doaj +1 more source
The role of silence in the production of social order in meditation (on the example of vipassana)
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article considers silence as the most important component of vipassana (meditation technique from early Buddhism) as it is taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka.
A. K. Spirkina
doaj +1 more source
Buddhism in Addiction Recovery
Encyclopedia, 2022 Buddhism was established by Guatama Buddha as a practice to liberate sentient beings from suffering. Mindfulness-Based interventions (MBIs) are Western psychologists’ adaptation of mindfulness/Vipassana to treat mental illnesses.
Vanessa Wang, Bryant M. Stone
doaj +1 more source
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 AimRapid eye movement (REM) sleep, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and sleep spindles are all implicated in the consolidation of procedural memories.
Elizaveta Solomonova +12 more
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source