Significance StatementYoung people who identify as gender or sexually diverse often face high levels of mental health challenges, including stress, anxiety, depression, and self-criticism.This study shows that Mindful Self-Compassion, an online-delivered supportive group training program, can help reduce these difficulties while increasing self-kindness and emotional resilience.Participants...
Mindfulness is an ancient Buddhist tradition which has found a place in the West especially as a therapeutic intervention. The evidence base continues to expand but most of the previous work has been undertaken with adults, with relatively limited research involving children and young people. The study was conceived, devised and designed within a CAMHS setting and therefore much attention has...
Mahasiswa merupakan kelompok yang rentan mengalami stres akibat tuntutan akademik, penyesuaian diri, serta tekanan pencapaian prestasi. Kondisi tersebut dapat berdampak pada kelelahan mental, kesulitan berkonsentrasi, kecemasan, dan penurunan motivasi belajar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan implementasi teknik mindfulness dalam konseling untuk mengurangi stres pada mahasiswa...
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in the dynamics of the bioelectrical brain activity of monks and nuns during Zen meditation in their natural monastic environment. The participants were practitioners residing in two Vietnamese Zen monasteries: Truc Lam Tay Thien ( N = 7) and Truc Lam Thuong Chieu Buddhist Academy ( N = 6). The measurements were carried out using...
This meta-analysis examined the effects of mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) on competitive anxiety in athletes. Eighteen controlled trials (N = 667) from seven databases were included. Random-effects modeling revealed a moderate overall effect favoring MBI [g = -0.53, 95% CI (-0.74, -0.32), I 2 = 63%], with greater reductions in cognitive anxiety (g = -0.58) than somatic anxiety (g =...
While meditation has been increasingly associated with challenging and adverse experiences, especially in more advanced and high-density practices, little is known about how advanced practitioners experience, make sense of, and integrate non-ordinary experiences that may disrupt their sense of self, reality, embodiment, and meaning. Building on recent advances in the scientific study of...
Consumer EEG headbands, HRV biofeedback devices, and closed-loop neurostimulation systems share a fundamental design flaw: they reward measurable proxy signals rather than the outcomes they claim to produce. When a user optimises for calm EEG, HRV coherence, or breathing resonance, their brain learns to produce those signals through whatever strategy is most efficient, including strategies...
Background Electroencephalographic (EEG) studies attempting to characterise the neural signature of meditation typically rely on contrasts with passive rest or comparisons among practitioners based on experience. However, these approaches rarely include active control states and seldom establish the reliability and robustness of identified quantitative EEG features. Consequently, the validity...
Abstract Understanding how the sense of self can be attenuated or reconfigured without loss of consciousness remains a central challenge in contemporary consciousness science. We propose a multidimensional framework of graded self-attenuation, in which the self is conceptualized as a dynamic configuration of distributed neural processes. Within this framework, contemplative practice attenuates...
Pure awareness (PA) has been proposed as a form of minimal phenomenal experience, but its neurophenomenological signatures remain poorly characterized. Transcendental meditation (TM) offers a particularly tractable empirical model of PA because its procedure is standardized, its induction is effortless, and it reliably elicits reports of awareness with minimal content. We combined...
مستخلص البحثاستهدف فاعلية برنامج قائم على مهارات تنظيم الذات لتنمية اليقظة العقلية لدى أطفال الروضة ذوي صعوبات التعلم. البحث الحالي الكشف عن فاعلية برنامج تدريبي قائم على مهارات تنظيم الذات في تنمية اليقظة العقلية لدى أطفال الروضة ذوي صعوبات التعلم. واعتمد البحث على المنهج شبه التجريبي ذو التصميم التجريبي للمجموعة الواحدة (قياس قبلي، بعدي، تتبعي). وتكونت عينة البحث من (10) أطفال من ذوي صعوبات...
Hypertension affects both physical and psychological health, including increasing anxiety, which can further worsen patients’ conditions. The Riliv application offers a practical solution for managing anxiety independently and effectively. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of implementing the Riliv mindfulness application on anxiety levels in hypertensive patients. This...
Objective To explore the immediate intervention effect and 1-month short-term maintenance effect of 8-week standardized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on test anxiety in college students, and to analyze the mediating role of mindfulness level. Methods A prospective randomized controlled trial design was adopted. From March to April 2025, 60 college students with Test Anxiety Scale...
Climate-related worry is increasingly recognized as a mental health concern and a potential correlate of pro-environmental behavior (PEB). However, little is known about these associations in the Global South or the potential role of mindfulness. This crosssectional study examined relationships among climate change anxiety, psychological distress, mindfulness, and PEB in 340 university students...
Background: Depression and anxiety are common mental health problems that frequently co-occur with trauma-related disorders and often develop following traumatic or stressful events, substantially impairing quality of life. Mindfulness-based interventions have been shown to reduce these symptoms; however, their widespread implementation is often limited by poor accessibility and low adherence....
Biophotons are ultra-weak photon emissions in the visible spectrum produced by living organisms. While extensively studied in plants, germinating seeds, and cell cultures, no systematic multi-method complexity analysis of human ultraweak photon emission (UPE) under physiological modulation has been reported. We address this gap by applying a comprehensive analytical framework to UPE...
How should we understand the radical changes in bodily awareness that occur during advanced meditation? Existing approaches subsume these changes under frameworks of self-dissolution or operationalize them through interoceptive measures that assume ongoing bodily sensation. This paper argues for bracketing the self when studying bodily awareness in advanced concentrative absorption meditation...
Background: Nurses treating patients having psychiatric disorders experience numerous stressful events affecting patients' care. Mindfulness mantram repetition, where a sacred word or phrase is silently repeated, can be used as a stress management technique to retrain an individual's attention. Aim: To evaluate the effect of mantram repetition as mindfulness strategy on psychological wellbeing...
Abstract Objectives Many meditation practices use the breath as an attentional anchor, and this may naturally slow respiration. However, it remains unclear whether intentionally slowing the breath during mindfulness meditation produces effects beyond those of spontaneous breathing. This study examined the effects of naturally occurring versus intentional slow breathing during mindfulness...
Meditation research is frequently framed in terms of reduced self-referential processing, yet converging evidence suggests that this description encompasses multiple mechanistically distinct states. The present work proposes a specific subclass, termed tranquil states, defined as resting-state conditions characterized by concurrent attenuation of default mode network activity — a finding...