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Phenomenological study: experiences in meditation practice vipassana of a group of people who attend a health center meditation in Guarne (Antioquia) [PDF]
, 2023 Las estadísticas muestran que los problemas mentales van en aumento, lo que invita a explorar opciones para minimizar factores de riesgo y consolidar factores protectores.
Erazo Ruiz, Paula Alejandra +3 more
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Meditacija i kreativnost / Meditation and Creativity
AM: Art + Media, 2016 This paper is a pioneering attempt to draw attention to the connection between meditation and creativity. The author compares the creative process to the process of meditation.
Ksenija Popadić
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Vipassana meditation : its role in acculturation
, 2001 As an international student and immigrant, who studied intercultural training, I have found my practice of Vipassana meditation is more beneficial in my acculturation than my knowledge and skills on intercultural adjustment.
Hong, Hye-sun
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MENTAL FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF THE LOVING HEART: FREE WILL AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Zygon, 2020 In Buddhism, Meditation and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom, Rick Repetti explains how the dynamics of Buddhist meditation can result in a kind of metacognition and metavolitional control that exceeds what is required for free will and defeats the
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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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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
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PSYCHOLOGY OF BUDDHISM AND HEALING METHOD OF JAPANESE SELF-REFLECTION; pp. 335–351 [PDF]
Trames, 2019 Buddhist psychology and Japanese Naikan therapy have deep historical connections. However, there has been a lack of research in religions studies comparing Naikan with its original Buddhist background.
W. G. Indunil Philip Shantha
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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 +43 more
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Waking up to the Present: Vipassana Meditation and the Body [PDF]
, 2011 Using ethnographic methods I examine the process of learning vipassana meditation, a form of meditation in which the practitioner focuses on their bodily sensations, and the ways in which learning this form of meditation affects the practitioner\u27s ...
Geffre, Craig
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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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