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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

Mindfulness-based interventions for young offenders: a scoping review [PDF]

, 2018
Youth offending is a problem worldwide. Young people in the criminal justice system have frequently experienced adverse childhood circumstances, mental health problems, difficulties regulating emotions and poor quality of life.
A Chiesa, AFT Arnsten, AL Duckworth, B Khoury, BH Thomas, BK Hölzel, CE Parsons, D Derezotes, D Farrington, D Levac, DA Andrews, E Bohlmeijer, E Shonin, ES Barnert, F Lösel, H Arskey, HM Daudt, J Gu, JD Teasdale, JJ Cerqueira, KA Dodge, KC Monahan, KC Monahan, KM Abram, KM Auty, L Birmingham, L Fjorback, L Spencer, L Steinberg, L Steinberg, L Steinberg, M Alsubaie, M Evans-Chase, M Evans-Chase, M Evans-Chase, M Lipsey, M Marmot, M Petticrew, MD DeBellis, MJ Vitacco, MJ Vitacco, MK Rothbart, MK Rothbart, P Chitsabesan, P Grossman, R Loeber, RA Baer, RJ Wilson, RS Crane, S Armijo-Olivo, S Dimidjian, S Fazel, S Himelstein, S Himelstein, S Himelstein, S Himelstein, S Himelstein, S Wakai, S-A Lao, S-R Ou, SG Hofmann, T Ward, TN Le, TS Mars, Witkiewitz, Witkiewitz   +65 more
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Impact of Vipassana Meditation on Life Satisfaction [PDF]

International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2015
Vipassana Meditation is measured to be the embodiment of the tradition from 2500 years back. It is non-scientific technique of self-observation which leads to progressive improved insight and positive life satisfaction attributes, as also, inculcations of family, friends, school, living environment and self life-satisfaction.
null Sampathkumar, null Phra Taweepong Inwongsakul   +1 more
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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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Mindfulness as a treatment for gambling disorder: current directions and issues [PDF]

, 2016
Mindfulness is a form of meditation that derives from Buddhist practice and is one of the fastest growing areas of psychological research. Studies investigating the role of mindfulness in the treatment of behavioural addictions have, to date, primarily ...
Griffiths, MD, Shonin, E, Van Gordon, W
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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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Meditação Vipassana: Estados de Consciência Corpo e Mente

Revista Neurociências, 2022
Introdução. Os seres humanos têm a capacidade de explorar e compreender subjetivamente os estados de consciência corporal e mental. As neurociências, graças ao desenvolvimento tecnológico, têm ampliado o estudo dos níveis de consciência de monges e pessoas que praticam meditação por muitos anos e divulgam amplamente os benefícios dessa prática.
Elisa Maria Melo Silva, Maria Inês Nogueira   +1 more
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Tantra or Yoga. Clinical Studies, Part 1: Yoga

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
Several clinical studies demonstrate how exercises from Vedic traditions, such as Yoga, or Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, as well as tantric practices, have a significant psychobiological impact.
Oscar R. Gómez
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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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