Sage Open
October 1, 2026
Jeel Moya-Salazar, Betsy Cañari
This study aims to understand the uses, consumption, and cultivation practices of guayusa in indigenous populations of Ecuador. A qualitative design was employed, conducting semi-structured face-to-face interviews with three indigenous women over the age of 18 from the Napo community. Participants were invited during the 4th American Meeting of Professional Experts in Phytocannabinoids...
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October 1, 2025
Andréa Oddos, Guy Gimenez, S. Khalfa
Nondual awareness (NDA), a unified, unchanging state of consciousness devoid of other phenomenal contents, can be achieved by various means such as contemplative practices. NDA seems to have a beneficial effect on well-being. This study aimed to validate a French version of the Nondual Awareness Dimensional Assessment-Trait (NADA-T) scale used to measure predisposition to NDA in the context of...
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April 1, 2021
Chu Wang, Jiayao Xu, Mufan Wang et al.
7 citations
Nightmares influence the mental health of university students, but the prevalence of nightmare and nightmare disorder requires additional documentation. The data of detailed nightmare experience of nightmare disorder and related depressive mood in this population are also scarce. First, a total of 1,451 students in a comprehensive Chinese university were invited to report their nightmare...
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August 19, 2020
Juan Shi, Rou-Jia Wang, Feng-yan Wang
Liu Zi Jue , a traditional mind–body health technique, is highly regarded and has been widely spread nowadays due to its easy learning, easy operation, and demonstrable physical and psychological therapeutic value. However, due to the lack of understanding of its complex development process, practitioners and researchers are easily confused by different versions. This study identified the...
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June 14, 2019
Siobhan Lynch, Marie-Louise Gander, Ananda Nahar et al.
The benefits of mindfulness for a variety of clinical and nonclinical populations are well established and there is growing interest in the potential of mindfulness in higher education. This article reports on the results from a randomized wait-list controlled study of Mindfulness-Based Coping With University Life (MBCUL), an adaption of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for university...
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July 1, 2017
Christoph Randler, Michael Schredl, Anja S. Göritz
96 citations
Chronotype refers to individual differences in sleep timing and in preferences for a given time of day while sleep duration refers to the hours of sleep. Here, we assessed chronotype, sleep duration, and nightmare frequency in relation to the Big Five personality factors. Overall, 2,492 persons (1,437 women, 1,055 men) completed the online survey between March 23, 2015, and April 8, 2015. The...
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April 1, 2017
Fieke Z. Bruggeman-Everts, Marije Liesbeth van der Lee, Elisabeth F. M. van ‘t Hooft et al.
16 citations
Most validation studies of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI) involved healthy subjects. Validation in patients who suffer from a life-threatening medical illness is needed, to investigate the FMI’s validity in medical psychology research and practice. Psychometric properties of the Dutch FMI were examined in two patient groups of two different studies: (Sample 1) cardiac patients ( n =...
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January 26, 2017
Elizabeth McCay, Rachael Frankford, Heather J. Beanlands et al.
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) group intervention to reduce psychological distress as well as to strengthen self-esteem, resilience, and general well-being for individuals living with a chronic illness and/or other health challenges. This pilot study employed a pre–posttest design to evaluate the outcome of the...
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2017
Michael C. Dillbeck, Kenneth L. Cavanaugh
These two studies tested the prediction that the group practice of a procedure for the development of consciousness, the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, by a sufficiently large group of individuals would be sufficient to reduce collective stress in the larger population, reflected in two stress-related health indicators, infant mortality rate and drug-related fatality rate....
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September 28, 2016
Michael C. Dillbeck, Kenneth L. Cavanaugh
This research tests the hypothesis that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) and TM-Sidhi® program by a group of sufficient size is associated with reduced rates of homicide and violent crime. Data from a prospective quasi-experiment were analyzed using intervention analysis or interrupted time series analysis. Dependent variables are time series of the U.S. monthly homicide...
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September 28, 2016
Tungshan Chou
The measurement of religiosity in current health-related literature is mostly based on the traditional Christian belief system. It has been argued that such a measurement approach may misrepresent the true degree of religiosity in Taiwanese people. In this study, religiosity was measured in two ways: self-reported religion type and a qualitatively derived index of religious piety based on...
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September 28, 2016
Alejandra Suarez, Dug Y. Lee, Christopher Rowe et al.
Freedom Project trains prisoners in nonviolent communication and meditation. Two complementary studies of its effects are reported in this article. The first study is correlational; we found decreased recidivism rates among prisoners trained by Freedom Project compared with recidivism rates in Washington state. The second study compared trained prisoners with a matched-pair control group and...
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2016
S. M. Mirbagherifard, S. M. Rozatian, Mahnoush Mani
Dream is one of the important topics of mystic texts and is of great significance in Islamic mysticism. Most writers of such texts have allocated a section of their books to it. Dream could be viewed from different perspectives, but it seems, what attracts mystics the most is the content of dream. The important issues considered the content of dream are seeing God, the Prophet, the Imams, the...
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October 1, 2015
Patrizio Tressoldi, Luciano Pederzoli, Patrizio Caini et al.
The possibility to induce real out-of-body experiences (OBEs) using hypnotic inductions, with the opportunity to interview participants during their experience, permits to investigate in depth the characteristics of different aspects of this particular state of consciousness from a first-person point of view. In this article, six selected participants report the description of another “body” we...
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April 1, 2015
Nandini Karunamuni
49 citations
The purpose of this article is to explore a model of the mind generally known as “the five aggregates” described in Buddhist teachings that relates to understanding subjective conscious experience from a first-person perspective. This model is explored as a potential theoretical resource that could guide meditation/mindfulness interventions. According to the five-aggregate model of the mind,...