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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, B Rael Cahn, Jonathan Levy, Manuel Fernandez, Arnaud Delorme   +4 more
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Vipassana meditation in educational settings for enhancing attention and academic performance: neurological mechanisms and implementation strategies

Cogent Education
Vipassana, an ancient mindfulness practice with its origin in Buddhism, has come out as a valuable approach for enhancing attention and emotional well-being.
Bishal Joshi
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Comparative study on the status of mental well-being among regularly meditating and non-meditating health care personnel in Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2019
Background and objectives Meditation holds potential for reducing occupation related stress. However, the current evidence base is largely limited to studies from the western countries with insufficient assessment of performance outcomes.
Wasantha Gunathunga, Oshadi Jayakody, Larrissa Bartlett, Ishanka Munugoda, Champa Kumudini Gunathunga   +4 more
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Self, Performativity and Vipassana Meditation: Some Theoretical Considerations

e-cadernos ces, 2010
The present proliferation of alternative and non-western practices challenges the way how modern selves are enacted, the distinction between ancient and contemporary, and obliges us to rethink the ways our bodies and minds are produced.
António Carvalho
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The Neuroscience of Religious and Spiritual Practices: A Systematic Review of Neurotheological Evidence

Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2026.
Systematic synthesis of 105 neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies demonstrates that religious and spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer, chanting, worship, and mystical experiences, produce practice‐specific neuroplastic changes in brain networks governing attention, self‐referential processing, emotion regulation, connectivity ...
Waqar Husain, Achraf Ammar, Urwa‐Tul Wusqa, Maha Farooq, Zehra Tariq, Seithikurippu R. Pandi‐Perumal, Ahmed S. BaHammam, Khaled Trabelsi, Mark D. Griffiths, Amir Pakpour, Haitham Jahrami   +10 more
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China

Religions, 2022
This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China.
Ngar-Sze Lau
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Arousal vs. relaxation: a comparison of the neurophysiological and cognitive correlates of Vajrayana and Theravada meditative practices.

PLoS 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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EEG Brain Rhythms During Resting‐State Wakefulness and Sleep in Elderly Expert Meditators

Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 2026.
Compared to controls, elderly expert meditators exhibited (1) more preserved resting‐state brain activity, (2) less altered sleep architecture, and (3) EEG features indicative of heightened cognitive states during NREM sleep. Importantly, several of the metrics that differed between groups also showed consistent correlations with meditation expertise ...
Pierre Champetier, Anaïs Hamel, Claire André, Valentin Ourry, Tristan Lacroix, Stéphane Rehel, Léa Chauveau, Sacha Haudry, Françoise Bertran, Vincent de la Sayette, Denis Vivien, Gaël Chételat, Antoine Lutz, Géraldine Rauchs, Medit‐Ageing Research Group, Alexandre Bejanin, Anne Chocat, Fabienne Collette, Sophie Dautricourt, Robin De Flores, Marion Delarue, Harriet Demnitz‐King, Hélène Espérou, Séverine Fauvel, Francesca Felisatti, Eglantine Ferrand Devouge, Eric Frison, Julie Gonneaud, Oriane Hébert, Olga Klimecki, Elizabeth Kuhn, Brigitte Landeau, Valérie Lefranc, Natalie Marchant, Florence Mezenge, Cassandre Palix, Anne Quillard, Florence Requier, Daniel Roquet, Edelweiss Touron, Anne‐Laure Turpin, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tim Whitfield, Miranka Wirth   +43 more
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 171-182, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source