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Farah R Zahir

2 papers in the library · 8 citations · publishing 2022-2025

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Traditional Islamic spiritual meditative practices: powerful psychotherapies for mental wellbeing.

Frontiers in Psychology 2025 Farah R Zahir, M Walid Qoronfleh 8 citations

The new millennium is witnessing a remarkable shift within the scientific community, to be increasingly understanding and accepting the impact of meditative, spiritual, and even religious practices, on health and wellbeing. This has been precipitated ironically, by cutting edge scientific studies. Rigorous empirical research in epigenomics and neuroscience is proving that religious and...

Epigenomic impacts of meditative practices.

Epigenomics December 1, 2022 Farah R Zahir

Meditative practices (MPs) are an inherent lifestyle and healing practice employed in Eastern medicine and spirituality. Integrating MPs into world mainstream medicine (WMM) requires effective empirical investigation of psychophysiological impacts. Epigenomic regulation is a probable mechanism of action that is empirically assessable. Recently, WMM-styled studies have screened the epigenomic...