The unique autonomic signatures of savoring meditation for anxiety reduction: A pilot randomized controlled trial.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders July 1, 2025 Tomoko Kishimoto, Ximing Hao, Qiyu Bai 3 citations
Anxiety disorders are often characterized by excessive sympathetic activation and dysfunction. While breathing relaxation reliably reduces anxiety by dampening sympathetic activity and enhancing parasympathetic tone, the autonomic signatures underlying positive emotion interventions, such as savoring meditation, remain less understood. In this pilot randomized controlled trial, we recruited 44...