International Journal of Psychophysiology
February 1, 2005
Tetsuya Takahashi, Tetsuhito Murata, Toshihiko Hamada et al.
Meditation is the attainment of a restful yet fully alert physical and mental state practiced by many as a self-regulatory approach to emotion management, but the psychophysiological properties and personality traits that characterize this meditative state have not been adequately studied. We quantitatively analyzed changes in psychophysiological parameters during Zen meditation in 20 normal...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
November 8, 2004
Antoine Lutz, Lawrence L. Greischar, Nancy B. Rawlings et al.
1,325 citations
Practitioners understand "meditation," or mental training, to be a process of familiarization with one's own mental life leading to long-lasting changes in cognition and emotion. Little is known about this process and its impact on the brain. Here we find that long-term Buddhist practitioners self-induce sustained electroencephalographic high-amplitude gamma-band oscillations and...
Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
March 31, 2004
Ye-On-Ja Choi
Purpose: This study purports to investigate the effects of Sasimsagwan meditation therapy, one way of Buddhists' ascetic practices conducted to reduce the state anxiety. Methods: The subjects of this study were college students, 34 of whom were grouped as experimental group and 35 as control group. The study is designed as the quasi-experimental research before and after the time lag of...
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
2004
James A. Wiseman
486 BOOK REVIEWS such a difficult text and producing a good workable translation out of difficult, academic German. Nevertheless, too often the translation reads not like natural, if academic, English prose but precisely like a translation from academic German in which the sentences are overly long and the subordinate clauses tangle and pile up. Finally, while the editors are to be commended...
Santé mentale au Québec
2004
Guido Bondolfi
Mindfulness is the fundamental attentional stance underlying all streams of Buddhist meditative practice. It has been described as "paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally." During the last years, mindfulness practice has been evaluated and introduced into several mental health treatments (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Dialectical...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2004
Paul O. Ingram
Reviewed by: The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness Paul O. Ingram The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness. By Beverly J. Lanzetta. Albany: State University of New York, 2001. 182 pp. The central thesis of The Other Side of Nothingness is that apophatic mystical experience offers Christians a theology of humility sensitive to religious...
Harvard Review of Psychiatry
2004
Michael Miovic
This article outlines the philosophical background to spiritual psychology and selectively reviews Western and Eastern literature on the subject. The world views of theism, atheism, and agnosticism are defined and critiqued, and the boundaries of scientific knowledge discussed. The views of James, Jung, and Freud are reviewed, and the contributions of humanistic psychology noted. Contemporary...
Science
October 2, 2003
Marcia Barinaga
79 citations
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS-- At a conference last month called Investigating the Mind, held here at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, neuroscientists and Buddhist scholars discussed attention, mental imagery, emotion, and collaborations to test insights gleaned from meditation.
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
October 1, 2003
Akira Otani
In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and ton-len, will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis. In so doing, the Eastern healing framework out of which these techniques emerged is examined in comparison with and in contrast to its Western counterpart. A growing body of empirical literature shows that meditation and hypnosis...
Routledge eBooks
September 2, 2003
Bhikkhu Phra Khantipalo
In this chapter only five meditation subjects will be described, though traditionally there are forty.1 Many of these are little used or only occasionally employed in special circumstances. Those which are given here are the commonest meditation subjects used in Buddhist countries at the present time. Two of them, Loving-kindness and the Recollection of the Buddha, lead when developed to calm...