Journal of Religion and Health
April 1, 2025
Lluis Oviedo, Berenika Seryczyńska, Magdalena Jelińska et al.
2 citations
The study of benefits linked to meditation and prayer has provided a considerable amount of empirical evidence revealing their positive influence on health, coping, resilience and flourishing. The practice of praying Rosary has drawn much less attention in academic circles, even if it could probably be enlisted with other forms of meditation and prayer with similar positive effects. The present...
Journal of dual diagnosis
April 1, 2025
Erica Eaton, Christy Capone, Shannon Reese et al.
2 citations
Objective: This study evaluates the feasibility and acceptability of delivering Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) to veterans with moral injury and co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorder (PTSD-SUD). Methods: Veterans (N = 26; M age = 50.92; 100% male) were recruited for an 8-week MSC group. Participants completed measures of self-compassion, guilt, shame, PTSD, and substance use outcomes at...
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
April 1, 2025
Vaibhav Tripathi, Ishaan Batta, Andre Zamani et al.
23 citations
The default mode network (DMN) is intricately linked with processes such as self-referential thinking, episodic memory recall, goal-directed cognition, self-projection, and theory of mind. In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of studies examining its functional connectivity, particularly its relationship with frontoparietal networks involved in top-down attention, executive...
Journal of Religion and Health
April 1, 2025
Thomas G. Plante, David B. Feldman, Jacqueline Ge et al.
6 citations
This is a randomized controlled trial of an Examen-based practice, an intervention reflecting a five-step daily reflection and prayer practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Catholic Jesuit order. Like other practices (e.g., mindfulness, yoga), this practice can be used as a spiritual or secular intervention to help people with a variety of challenges and stressors. In this...
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
March 29, 2025
Burcu Göz Tebrizcik, Alexandra L Georgescu, Eleanor J Dommett
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental condition, but current treatment options are limited. Although medication is widely used, it does not fully address all challenges and can result in considerable side effects. One approach showing promise in alleviating symptoms is mindfulness. However, typical mindfulness-based stress reduction programmes require a...
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
March 18, 2025
Oscar R. Gómez
Several clinical studies demonstrate how exercises from Vedic traditions, such as Yoga, or Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, as well as tantric practices, have a significant psychobiological impact. This study seeks to identify the neurophysiological correlates of practices referred to as tantric and non-tantric meditations through a qualitative systematic review of collected data. First, the...
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
March 18, 2025
Oscar R. Gómez
Several clinical studies show how tantric practices and exercises of Vedic traditions—such as Yoga—or Theravada or Mahayana Buddhism have a significant psychobiological impact. This study compares the neurophysiological correlates of practices called tantric and non-tantric meditations through a qualitative systematic review of the collected data. It was evidenced that tantric practices produce...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
March 13, 2025
Priscilla Fabrizi, Thomas Ditye
This study investigates the effects of the Gateway Experience (GE) on psychological well-being. The GE has been developed several decades ago for the induction of altered states of consciousness. It incorporates several techniques such as hypnosis, meditation, and binaural beats, which are known to facilitate well-being, sleep, learning and memory, and emotional states, but have not been tested...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
March 12, 2025
Thomas Andrillon, Antoine Lutz, Jennifer Windt et al.
14 citations
During wakefulness, our thoughts transition between different contents. However, there are moments that are seemingly devoid of reportable content, referred to as mind blanking (MB). It remains unclear what these blanks represent, highlighting the definitional and phenomenological ambiguities surrounding MB. We map out MB in terms of its reportable expressions, neurophysiology, and relationship...
DHARANA - Bhavan s International Journal of Business
March 11, 2025
N. S. Sudarshan
The possible advantages of mantra meditation for both physical and mental well-being are investigated in this study. It has been proposed that mantras, which are repeated sounds or words employed in a variety of spiritual and contemplative disciplines, might enhance mental peace and general well-being. The purpose of this study is to explore how frequent mantra practice affects mental clarity,...