Meditation

Contemplative practices in a resilience course improved student wellbeing in three distinct patterns, but many students' persistent stress limited their readiness for sustainability learning.

mixed methods

Argues that the medicalization of meditation detaches it from its original spiritual meanings, and identifies both convergences and divergences between Buddhist meditation and Islamic practices, particularly within Sufism.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Mindfulness training significantly reduced academic stress in the experimental group compared to the control group.

quasi-experimental design with non-randomized pretest–posttest control group Sample size: 34

Brief mindfulness meditation increased risk-taking behavior by reducing loss aversion during decisional processing.

experimental study

Mindfulness instruction did not produce main effects on intergroup attitudes, empathy, or compassion, but interacted with perspective-takers' social dominance orientation to predict perspective-givers' empathic concern and personal distress, with benefits only when perspective-takers were low in social dominance orientation.

randomized controlled trial

Proposes that human identity in the age of AI should be grounded in awakening to deeper, non-dual consciousness rather than technological mastery, as articulated through parallels between T. S. Eliot's poetics and Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Hypnotic states modulate large-scale brain networks to reorganize emotional experience and self-referential processing, supporting a mechanistic model of emotion regulation and self-integration centered on the construct of Fundamental Peace.

integrative review

Argues that Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra developed in tandem with restricted tantric practices, with its visualization techniques and emphasis on bodhicitta containing double entendres that critique transgressive bodily yogas and internalize tantric praxis.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Mindfulness-based interventions consistently reduced anxiety symptoms and improved psychological well-being, while binaural beats showed potential for reducing anxiety through modulation of autonomic nervous system responses, though with greater methodological heterogeneity.

integrative review

Mindful yoga therapy offers a non-pharmacological approach to improving mental health in older adults with depression.

not specified

MBSR shows potential for improving anxiety and depression in adults with ASD and for alleviating stress and emotional distress in ASD caregivers, but evidence is limited.

systematic review Sample size: 13

The meditation group had lower state anxiety after the 13-minute guided meditation than the control group after waiting.

randomized controlled trial Sample size: 75

A six-session mindfulness-based stress reduction program combined with yoga improved mindfulness, happiness, self-compassion, psychological well-being, and overall yoga self-efficacy in university students, but not the mind sub-dimension of yoga self-efficacy.

randomized controlled trial Sample size: 32

Participation in the SMART Program was associated with significant improvements in clinician well-being that persisted six months following program completion and was positively associated with the number of stress-management tools used and meditation practice.

observational study

Mindfulness and meditation are constructed in differing and contradictory ways across Swedish RE and PEH textbooks, as spiritual/religious content in RE and as stress management in PEH.

qualitative study

A five-minute guided meditation during the postvaccination waiting period significantly reduced acute anxiety compared to usual care.

quasiexperimental study Sample size: 256

Proposes that contemplative pedagogy, understood through a neurophenomenological lens, operates across four dimensions—internal, external, intersubjective, and interobjective—to cultivate consciousness in holistic and transformative ways.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Transcendental Meditation significantly reduced emotional exhaustion, perceived stress, and mood disturbance among bilingual teacher-leaders, and qualitative analysis showed it enhanced access to cultural assets supporting well-being.

randomized controlled trial Sample size: 62

Argues that Khotan's royal patronage of the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra enabled the circulation and possible redaction of large Mahāyāna compilations, and that Khotanese practice shows a functional differentiation where meditation texts omit formal repentance while an image-making sūtra requires it for karmic purification.

historical and textual analysis

Meditation depth and type of meditative movement practice are associated with distinct gut microbiota compositional patterns, though alpha diversity did not differ significantly.

cross-sectional study Sample size: 42

Mindfulness training was associated with reduced perceived stress, enhanced self-compassion, and a transient improvement in midterm performance.

quasi-experimental

A six-week MBSR program significantly increased mindfulness and improved coping strategies in parents of children with ASD.

randomized controlled trial Sample size: 80

Meditation provides holistic benefits for elderly health, encompassing emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects.

qualitative review

The proposed CNN-BiLSTM-Attention model achieved 99.46% accuracy in classifying EEG recordings into resting and mantra-listening brain states, greatly outperforming baseline models.

observational study

MBCT-P reduced academic procrastination in the experimental group over the long term, with participants reporting greater focus, calm, and motivation.

mixed methods, randomized pre-test post-test control group with follow-up Sample size: 43