Abstract Vipassana, an ancient mindfulness practice with its origin in Buddhism, has come out as a valuable approach for enhancing attention and emotional well-being. The applications of Vipassana in academia, particularly in enhancing attention and improving academic performances in students, have been explored in this paper. This conceptual articlesynthesizes an integrated literature from...
Advanced meditation offers a powerful lens for investigating consciousness and for understanding how sustained training may contribute to human flourishing. In the spirit of neurophenomenology, we combine first-person reports with model-free empirical analyses and formal whole-brain modeling to investigate the mechanisms underlying advanced meditative states and minimal phenomenal experience...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted mental health worldwide, particularly among college students. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of regular meditation practice on stress and well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown in college students from Delhi, India. Methods: Data were collected from April 22 to June 3, 2020. Participants included college students aged 18-26,...
Background: Mindfulness has gained increasing attention for its role in fostering emotional regulation and psychological resilience. In contexts of displacement and trauma, mindfulness may be associated with improved adaptive coping and recovery. This cross-sectional study investigated the relationships among mindfulness, distress tolerance, and trauma recovery in internally displaced...
Meditative states provide a unique window into intrinsic neural activity, yet the spectral and spatial dynamics of resting-state EEG during meditation remain incompletely understood. This study examined how gender, age, and meditation experience influence EEG band power and spatial coherence during eyes-closed meditation. Twenty-four participants (12 experienced meditators, 12 novices)...
Studies suggest that mindfulness meditation may shorten the reaction time in cognitive tests. Mindfulness-based interventions are considered to influence positively both performance and psychological state of athletes. Since reaction time and psychological factors are crucial for winning bouts in fencing, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether fencing-focused mindfulness training...
Chronic psychosocial stress may exacerbate inflammation and oxidative stress, potentially contributing to the aetiology of many lifestyle-related diseases, including elevation of blood pressure (BP) and increased cardiovascular risk. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) improves psychological well-being, but few studies have investigated its effect on biological parameters related to...
The present article explores the relationship between mindfulness meditation and personality. Based on a substantial body of research, mindfulness has been shown to have significant associations with personality. Recent research suggests that mindfulness meditation may influence personality traits in accordance with the Five Factor Personality Model. To examine this, we investigated whether...
Anxiety is a common psychological disorder among medical students, marked by chronic apprehension and physiological manifestations including muscle tension, perspiration, and shortness of breath. These symptoms may hinder cognitive performance, academic achievement, and overall psychological resilience, potentially affecting the future proficiency of medical professionals. This study aimed to...
This study investigates the effectiveness of AIguided meditation compared to instructor-provided, text-based meditation, using electroencephalography (EEG) and post-session interviews. Participants were randomly assigned to either condition, and EEG data were analyzed to assess alpha-theta cross-frequency dynamics, a biofeedback marker of meditative states versus mind-wandering. Although EEG...