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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
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Neural Plasticity, 2018 It has been suggested that the practice of meditation is associated to neuroplasticity phenomena, reducing age-related brain degeneration and improving cognitive functions. Neuroimaging studies have shown that the brain connectivity changes in meditators.
Anna Lardone +12 more
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What Makes Them Happy? The Determinant Factors of Happiness Among Communities in an Endemic Phase
Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Due to its link to social welfare, happiness has gained interest from many stakeholders. However, the COVID‐19 pandemic has severely impacted community well‐being and happiness. The identification of community happiness factors, especially during an endemic phase, is vital for developing effective policy strategies.
Naziatul Aziah Mohd Radzi +3 more
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Exploring the Impact of Teacher-Led Silent Meditation Practices in Buddhist Sunday Schools
Journal of Nonformal EducationThere is a notable reluctance or uncertainty among practitioners regarding the effective grasp and application of health meditation techniques, which impacts the overall effectiveness of meditation education and potentially hinders the optimization of ...
I Ketut Damana, Colin Simonds
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Brain Sciences, 2021 Meditation experience has previously been shown to improve performance on behavioral assessments of attention, but the neural bases of this improvement are unknown.
Kathryn J. Devaney +5 more
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Into the realm of zeroness: Peirce's categories and Vipassana meditation [PDF]
Semiotica, 2009 This article examines the uncanny parallels between Peirce's sign theory and practice and the philosophy of Vipassana Meditation. It argues that Peircean phenomenology has much to add to our understanding of the physical experience of meditation as well as Buddhist theology.
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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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Mindfulness Meditation for Primary Headache Pain: A Meta-Analysis
Chinese Medical Journal, 2018 Background: Several studies have reported that mindfulness meditation has a potential effect in controlling headaches, such as migraine and tension-type headache; however, its role remains controversial.
Qiang Gu, Jin-Chao Hou, Xiang-Ming Fang
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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 +2 more
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Health Benefits Associated with Vipassana Meditation
REVIEW JOURNAL PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL SCIENCEVipassana, an ancient meditation technique taught by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), has been practiced for over 2,500 years as a path to wisdom and liberation. In the context of modern life, which is filled with stress and distractions, the application of Vipassana as a tool for enhancing mental and physical well-being has gained increasing ...
Huynh Thi Tu Tao, Dr. Manisha Tyagi
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