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Psychological Bulletin 1975 J. Cole Smith 105 citations
It has been widely argued that meditation has psychotherapeutic potential. Research on meditation has yielded 3 sets of findings: (a) experienced meditators who are willing to participate without pay in meditation research appear happier and healthier than nonmeditators; (b) beginning meditators who
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1974 Kenneth R. Pelletier 79 citations
Unpaid, normal volunteers (20 men and 20 women) were administered the autokinetic test, the embedded-figures test (EFT), and the rod-and-frame test (RFT) prior to meditation instruction. After 3 mo. of instruction in Transcendental Meditation, Ss were retested and demonstrated increased ego distance and field independence on all of the above tests. These variations in an autonomic, enduring...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1974 Larry A. Hjelle 81 citations
15 experienced transcendental meditators and 21 novice meditators were administered Bendig's anxiety scale, Rotter's Locus of Control scale, and Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory of self-actualization. As predicted, experienced meditators were significantly less anxious and more internally controlled than beginning meditators. Likewise, experienced meditators were significantly higher,...
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 1974 Robert A. C. Stewart
The “name of the game” for all types of psychotherapy is ultimately the maximization of human happiness. All psychotherapy then becomes concerned with such notions as self-realization, self-actualization, human fulfilment, etc., although a given system may not use such terminology.This paper looks at some Eastern contributions to the promotion of self-realization—in particular a technique in...
Psychosomatic Medicine July 1, 1973 David W. Orme-Johnson 20 citations
Physiological indices of stress were found to be lower in people who regularly practiced Transcendental Meditation (N=14) than in nonmeditating control subjects (N=16). During normal waking (eyes open) a noxious loud tone (100 db, 0.5 sec, 3000 Hz) was presented to subjects a mean of once every 53 sec at irregular intervals. The stress reaction to each tone, as indicated by the galvanic skin...
Science March 27, 1970 Robert K. Wallace 659 citations
Oxygen consumption, heart rate, skin resistance, and electroenceph-alograph measurements were recorded before, during, and after subjects practiced a technique called transcendental meditation. There were significant changes between the control period and the meditation period in all measurements. During meditation, oxygen consumption and heart rate decreased, skin resistance increased, and the...
Psicooncología 1970 Raquel Calero, Juan Antonio Cruzado 5 citations
Objetivo. Valorar la eficacia de las intervenciones psicológicas en mindfulness con pacientes supervivientes de cáncer de mama. Método. Buscamos en las bases de datos: Pubmed, CINAHL y Psycinfo, investigaciones con intervenciones en mindfulness a pacientes adultas supervivientes de cáncer de mama, que incluyeran grupos experimentales y control, así como seguimiento tras finalizar las...
Acta Orientalia 1970 Halvor Eifring
The aim of this article is threefold: It attempts to 1) identify the characteristics of East Asian forms of meditation, as compared to meditation in other parts of the Eurasian continent; 2) test the usefulness of a definition of meditation as a self-administered technique for inner transformation; and 3) test the usefulness of a classification of meditation techniques based on generic features...
Contingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology December 31, 1969 Daksha Madhu Rajagopalan
This is an exploration of Buddhist mindfulness as a means of conflict resolution and peace building. Drawing on monks’ efforts in post-genocide Cambodia as its case study and inspiration, this essay considers firstly, traditional environmental security conflict theories and secondly, Batesonian purposive-consciousness. Given the limitations of both these approaches in articulating the Khmer...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences December 1, 1966 Akira Kasamatsu, T Hirai 324 citations
Zen meditation (ZAZEN) is a spiritual exercise held in the Zen sect of Buddhism. Apart from its religious significance, the training of Zen meditation produces changes not only in the mind but also in the body—these influences are of interest to scientific studies, from the stand point of psychology and physiology. In the present study the EEG changes accompanied with Zen meditation have been...