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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
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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
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EEG Brain Rhythms During Resting-State Wakefulness and Sleep in Elderly Expert Meditators. [PDF]

J Sleep Res
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 ...
Champetier P, Hamel A, André C, Ourry V, Lacroix T, Rehel S, Chauveau L, Haudry S, Bertran F, de la Sayette V, Vivien D, Chételat G, Lutz A, Rauchs G, Medit‐Ageing Research Group.   +14 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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Leaving Vipassana Meditation [PDF]

, 2020
This chapter examines the disaffiliation narratives of former members of Goenka's Vipassana meditation. It adopts a linguistic approach to conversion/deconversion and presents the findings in light of the linguistic and institutional features of the movement.
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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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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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Effectiveness of Vipassana Meditation and Yoga in Enhancing Forgiveness and Reducing Anger among Individuals with Coronary Heart Disease: A Prospective Interventional Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Introduction: The detrimental effects of anger on psychological and physical health have been highlighted by traditional and contemporary perspectives.
Shraddha Sharma, Ritu Sharma
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The Principles and the Method of Vipassana Meditation

Journal of Population and Development, 2022
The current article is a scientific research of the method of Vipassana Meditation which was discovered by the Buddha. The paper briefly outlines the fundamental principles involved in the meditation practice regarding the concept of Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta. It briefly outlines method of Vipassana meditation step by step at it is practiced.
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Psychological effects of a one-month meditation retreat on experienced meditators: the role of nonattachment

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Background. There are few studies devoted to assessing the impact of meditation-intensive retreats on the well-being, positive psychology and personality of experienced meditators. We aimed to assess whether a 1-month Vipassana retreat: a) would increase
Jesus Montero-Marin, Marta Puebla-Guedea, Paola Herrera-Mercadal, Ausias Cebolla, Joaquim Soler, Marcelo Demarzo, Marcelo Demarzo, Carmelo Vazquez, fernando Rodríguez-Bornaetxea, Javier Garcia Campayo   +9 more
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