A two-week meditation intervention of low or high body-focus does not grant the ability to sense the heart rate at rest
PsyArXiv December 16, 2025 Tim Neville Palmer, Clémence Alméras, Joshua Marquez et al. preprint
Meditation techniques have been identified as relating differently to mental health outcomes, challenging experiences (e.g. anxiety, somatic effects, and psychotic-like experiences) and cognitive and emotional processes. Our aim was to better understand the differential relationship between ‘low body focused’ and ‘high body focused’ meditation techniques with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs),...