Death recollection is a form of mindfulness meditation that orients a practitioner's calm attention toward an awareness of death. This meditation is practiced by Theravada Buddhists of all ages throughout Thailand. This research investigates how recollecting death influences Thai teenager mental health. Purposive and convenience sampling methods were used to recruit participants from five...
The paper aims to shed further light on the boran kammaṭṭhāna, or “old meditation,” tradition by providing a summary and an analysis of a meditation manual titled “Baep Doen That” (literally, “Model for walking the elements”) attributed to the Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean (1733–1822), the fourth Saṅgharāja of Bangkok, Thailand. It is a manual for advanced practitioners that consists of...
BMC PsychologyJuly 17, 2025Igor Bartolen, Petra Soláriková
Optimal stress management and maintaining a good quality of sleep are essential parts of healthy physical and psychological flourishing. Especially young adult university students have shown vulnerability to stress related outcomes and sleep quality disturbances, due to various factors associated with personal life events, academic stress, self-responsibilities, etc. A novel method for mental...
Early life adversity (ELA) disrupts default mode network (DMN) integrity subserving self-referential processes involved in emotional awareness and regulation. Mindfulness training (MT) reduces self-referential processing and down-regulates the DMN. We employed neurofeedback-augmented mindfulness training (NAMT), combining a core mindfulness strategy (focusing on breath) with real-time fMRI...
Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) is a manualized mindfulness-based intervention for performers. The availability and adaptability of MSPE make it accessible for application and research. There has been a proliferation of research examining the effects of MSPE with performers since it's development in 2009. However, there have been no attempts to synthesize the extant literature....
Mindfulness meditation involves training attention, commonly toward sensory experiences, with nonjudgmental awareness. Theoretical perspectives propose that meditation increases the precision of sensory processing and reduces the generation/elaboration of top-down expectations. Research suggests forward traveling cortical alpha waves may reflect bottom-up inhibition to enhance signal-to-noise...
Pranayama, the yogic art of breath regulation, occupies a central position in classical Yoga literature, bridging physiological practice and spiritual realization. This study presents a comparative analysis of pranayama as conceptualized in the Yoga Raj Upanishad and the Yoga Chudamani Upanishad, highlighting their distinct methodological approaches, philosophical orientations, and intended...
BMC Medical EducationJuly 1, 2025Flora Wong, Nikki Ashtiani, Raphael Cuomo et al.3 citations
Medical training is intellectually, physically, and emotionally challenging. Trainees experience concerning rates of burnout, compassion fatigue, poor mental health outcomes, and reduced overall well-being, which may negatively impact the quality of care for patients. Mindfulness interventions help mitigate stress and reduce burnout, however, limited time, insufficient resources and training,...
Schizophrenia BulletinJune 17, 2025Daphne J Holt, Rachel Sussman, Daniel Johnson et al.1 citation
Stress sensitivity may represent an important target for resilience-promoting, preventive interventions. Resilience Training (RT) is a 4-session, group-based behavioral intervention, focusing on mindfulness-based skills, that leads to reductions in psychopathology. To investigate the mechanisms of RT, the current study tested whether acquiring the skills taught in RT leads to decreases in...
Computational phenomenology has emerged as a powerful framework for investigating advanced meditation states and stages, and meditative development and endpoints.Various models have been proposed to mechanistically explain the diverse experiences associated with these practices, including enhanced well-being, attentional shifts, and defabrication, as well as minimal phenomenal experiences and...