Mindfulness
July 1, 2025
Jonathan Hamilton, Kate Brennan, Daniel Brown et al.
Abstract Objectives Mindfulness training has been shown to be helpful in the treatment of depression. However, standard mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are still not widely available and sustaining a mindfulness practice can be difficult for patients with current depression. Alternative delivery formats may serve to address these problems. This study tested the acceptability,...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1987
Michael Forte, Daniel Brown, Michael Dysart
A survey of 110 subjects was conducted to investigate the differences in the phenomenological quality of mindfulness mediators who attended retreats of either two days (twenty-seven subjects), two weeks (twenty-five subjects), or three months (fifty-eight subjects). A questionnaire, the Profile of Trance, Imaging, and Meditation Experience (TIME), was used for the survey. Discriminant analyses...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1984
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Michael Dysart
89 citations
Tachistoscopic presentation of light flashes was used to test for differences in visual sensitivity among 3 groups of practitioners of Buddhist mindfulness meditation and non-meditator-controls. Meditation practitioners were able to detect light flashes of shorter duration than the non-meditators. There were no differences among the meditator groups. There were no differences among the groups...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1984
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Michael Dysart
82 citations
Practitioners of the mindfulness form of Buddhist meditation were tested for visual sensitivity before and immediately after a 3-mo. retreat during which they practiced mindfulness meditation for 16 hr. each day. A control group composed of the staff at the retreat center was similarly tested. Visual sensitivity was defined in two ways: by a detection threshold based on the duration of simple...
Imagination Cognition and Personality
June 1, 1983
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Philip Rich et al.
20 citations
A survey of 122 subjects was conducted to investigate the differences in the phenomenological quality of the experiences engendered by three types of awareness discipline: self-hypnosis (21 subjects), waking dreaming (49 subjects) and mindfulness meditation (25 subjects from a 2-week retreat, and another group of twenty-seven subjects from a 2-day weekend retreat). A questionnaire, the Profile...