Sage Open
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.
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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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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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January 26, 2017
Elizabeth McCay, Rachael Frankford, Heather 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
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...
Sage Open
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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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...