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Mind–Body Health Technique : Its Creation, Transition, and Formalization

SAGE Open, 2020
Liu Zi Jue , a traditional mind–body health technique, is highly regarded and has been widely spread nowadays due to its easy learning, easy operation, and demonstrable physical and psychological therapeutic value.
Juan Shi, Rou-Jia Wang, Feng-yan Wang
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White shirts as sacred amulets: “World‐making” and “self‐making” during the Burmese political festival

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.
Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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Meditation styles are highly discriminable from EEG at the subject level with limited generalization across the population: a machine-learning study

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Meditation has been associated with improvements in attention, emotional regulation, and mental wellbeing, motivating increasing interest in objective methods for assessing meditative states.
Saqib Hayat, Saqib Hayat, Saqib Hayat, Francesco Goretti, Francesco Goretti, Rachele Fabbri, Chiara Noferini, Chiara Noferini, Elena Cravero, Elena Cravero, Elena Cravero, Paolo Mori, Alessandro Scaglione, Alessandro Scaglione, Francesco S. Pavone, Francesco S. Pavone, Francesco S. Pavone   +16 more
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Molecules of Silence: Effects of Meditation on Gene Expression and Epigenetics

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Many studies have consistently demonstrated an epigenetic link between environmental stimuli and physiological as well as cognitive responses. Epigenetic mechanisms represent a way to regulate gene activity in real time without modifying the DNA sequence,
Sabrina Venditti, Loredana Verdone, Anna Reale, Valerio Vetriani, Micaela Caserta, Michele Zampieri   +5 more
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Mindfulness training in healthcare professions: A scoping review of systematic reviews

Medical Education, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 671-686, June 2024.
Abstract Purpose The effectiveness of mindfulness training (MT) on mental health and wellbeing in different groups and contexts is well‐established. However, the effect of MT on different healthcare professionals' (HCPs) mental health and wellbeing needs to be synthesised, along with a focus on outcomes that are specifically relevant to healthcare ...
Nabeela Kajee, Jesus Montero-Marin, Kate E. A. Saunders, Kearnan Myall, Elinor Harriss, Willem Kuyken   +5 more
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Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 61-76, April 2024.
Abstract Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works as a mechanism of persuasion in Thailand, where Buddhist logics of meditation permeate social life.
Julia Cassaniti
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Executive control and felt concentrative engagement following intensive meditation training

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Various forms of mental training have been shown to improve performance on cognitively demanding tasks. Individuals trained in meditative practices, for example, show generalized improvements on a variety of tasks assessing attentional performance.
Anthony Paul Zanesco, Anthony Paul Zanesco, Brandon eKing, Brandon eKing, Katherine eMacLean, Clifford D Saron, Clifford D Saron, Clifford D Saron   +7 more
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The Difference Jesus Makes: Yuval Noah Harari and Wolfhart Pannenberg on the Shape of Universal History

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2024.
Abstract The Christian confession of who Jesus is must be made in the contested space of conflicting accounts of history. This article compares the shape of universal history set out by Yuval Noah Harari with that of Wolfhart Pannenberg by sketching their accounts of human beginnings, the middle of history, and their view to the future.
E. J. David Kramer
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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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Mindfulness i svenska kontexter

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2015
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mindfulness can be found in three distinctly different settings in Sweden: therapeutic, commercial and religious. Its greatest expansion can be found within in the Swedish health care system, where mindfulness-based therapies and ...
Katarina Plank
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