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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

open access: yesJournal 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   +4 more
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Performing Meditation: Vipassana and Zen as Technologies of the Self [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this dissertation is to reflect on technologies of the self, a term coined by Michel Foucault to study western practices of self-formation.
Carvalho, Antonio Manuel Simoes Lopes Paiva de
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Mindfulness i svenska kontexter

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt 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
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Vipassana Meditation on Academic Stress among Adolescence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Indian Psychology, 2017
The Present investigation is based on Research study undertaken to find out the ‘The Effect of Vipassana Meditation on Academic Stress among adolescence’. An experiment was conducted on 50 adolescence age 15 to 18 of non-randomized control group. Pre test post test design.
null Mr. Milind B. Kurane   +1 more
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Intrinsic neural timescales exhibit different lengths in distinct meditation techniques

open access: yesNeuroImage
Meditation encompasses a range of practices employing diverse induction techniques, each characterized by a distinct attentional focus. In Mantra meditation, for instance, practitioners direct their attention narrowly to a given sentence that is ...
Bianca Ventura   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Emotion Processing

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
Mindfulness-based interventions have previously been shown to have positive effects on psychological well-being. However, the time commitment, teacher shortage, and high cost of classic mindfulness interventions may have hindered efforts to spread the ...
Ran Wu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meditation increases the depth of information processing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During meditation, practitioners are required to center their attention on a specific object for extended periods of time. When their thoughts get diverted, they learn to quickly disengage from the distracter.
Wolf eSinger   +11 more
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THE BODY: WHAT VIPASSANA MEDITATION REVEALS ABOUT HOW WE ARE CONNECTED TO THE WORLD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
I recently completed a brief refresher course in Vipassana meditation after some personal setbacks disrupted my fledgling practice and accompanying equanimity. It was much needed. My mojo is back, and I know more definitively than ever that the key to my
Joo Heung Lee
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Buddhism and Vipassana Meditation: A Scientific Method for Mental and Social Growth in the Modern Age

open access: yes, 2023
Vipassana meditation, discovered by Buddha approximately 2500 years ago, is one of the oldest meditation techniques in India. This meditation technique is a non-denominational scientific technique of self-transformation through self-observation in ...
Verma, Alok Kumar
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Long-term effects of Vipassana Meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka : a qualitative study. [PDF]

open access: yes
Background. According to The Buddha’s teaching, mental reactions to bodily sensations are the source of mental negativities (including anxiety, hatred, greed, and jealousy).
Babchuk, Alon
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