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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

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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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
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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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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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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
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THE VIPASSANA MEDITATION TECHNIQUE OF LUANGPOR PRAMOTE: ITS APPLICABILITY AND SPREAD IN THE INFORMATION AGE

Prajna Vihara
In modern society, meditation has become a key approach for people to cope with stress and achieve self-improvement. This article delves into the adaptability and practical value of Luangpor Pramote Pamojjo's comprehensive meditation in contemporary ...
Wei Sun, John T. Giordano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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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Health and Emotional Modulation through Vipassana Meditation: A Pre-experimental Study.

Annals of African medicine
CONTEXT Vipassana meditation (VM), a mindfulness-based practice, has been known to promote good health all the way. Global chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and hypertension often bring physical and mental pain together. Through
Tilottama Wankhade, Sujata R Lavangare, Akanksha P. Dani   +2 more
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