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Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Test Anxiety Phenomena among University Nursing Students [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Test anxiety is a universal phenomenon affecting students at all levels. Efforts are needed to help students get and use coping strategies to alleviate such anxiety. The study aim was to investigate the effects of two specific types of meditation, namely
Nagwa Ahmed Mohamed Souilm, Fatma Ata Abd El-Salihen   +1 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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A Randomized Clinical Trial Reveals Effects of Mindfulness and Slow Breathing on Plasma Amyloid Beta Levels

Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Prior research suggests that meditation may slow brain aging and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, we lack research systematically examining what aspect(s) of meditation may drive such benefits. In particular, it is unknown how breathing patterns during meditation might influence health outcomes associated with AD.
Kaoru Nashiro, B. Rael Cahn, Paul Choi, Hye Rynn J. Lee, Shaakhini Satchi, Jungwon Min, Hyun Joo Yoo, Christine Cho, Noah Mercer, Lorena Sordo, Elizabeth Head, Jeiran Choupan, Mara Mather   +12 more
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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review

Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.
How do we accurately measure mind wandering? This review compares five methods: from self‐reports (prone to bias) to brain scans (precise but expensive). No single method captures all aspects, so we propose the MAMW framework—a unified approach combining strengths of each technique.
Sholeh Nazari, Paul Fitzgerald, Reza Kazemi   +2 more
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Mind–Body Health Technique : Its Creation, Transition, and Formalization

SAGE Open, 2020
Liu Zi Jue , a traditional mind–body health technique, is highly regarded and has been widely spread nowadays due to its easy learning, easy operation, and demonstrable physical and psychological therapeutic value.
Juan Shi, Rou-Jia Wang, Feng-yan Wang
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Contrasting Electroencephalography-Derived Entropy and Neural Oscillations With Highly Skilled Meditators

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
Meditation is an umbrella term for a number of mental training practices designed to improve the monitoring and regulation of attention and emotion. Some forms of meditation are now being used for clinical intervention.
Jacob H. Young, Jacob H. Young, Martha E. Arterberry, Joshua P. Martin   +3 more
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Meditation Linked to Enhanced MRI Signal Intensity in the Pineal Gland and Reduced Predicted Brain Age

Journal of Pineal Research, Volume 77, Issue 2, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Growing evidence demonstrates that meditation practice supports cognitive functions, including attention and interoceptive processing, and is associated with structural changes across cortical networks, including prefrontal regions and the insula.
Emanuele R. G. Plini, Michael C. Melnychuk, Paul M. Dockree   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meditation expertise influences response bias and prestimulus alpha activity in the somatosensory signal detection task

Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 2, February 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the proposed mechanism of mindfulness, its impact on body awareness and interoception, and its potential benefits for mental and physical health. Using psychophysical assessments, we compared 31 expert meditators with 33 matched controls (non‐meditators who engage in regular reading, more than 5 h per week) in terms of ...
Maik Mylius, Simon Guendelman, Fivos Iliopoulos, Vittorio Gallese, Laura Kaltwasser   +4 more
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The Spiral of Attention, Arousal, and Release: A Comparative Phenomenology of Jhāna Meditation and Speaking in Tongues

American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Buddhist Jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues appear wildly distinct. These spiritual techniques differ in their ethical, theological, and historical frames and seem, from the outside, to produce markedly different states of consciousness—one a state of utter calm and the other of high emotional arousal.
Josh Brahinsky, Jonas Mago, Mark Miller, Shaila Catherine, Michael Lifshitz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source