Meditation: all studies (page 978) - The Consciousness Library

Mindfulness-based stress reduction as a novel treatment for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.

International urogynecology journal November 2016 Gregory Kanter, Yuko M Komesu, Fares Qaedan et al.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a standardized meditation program that may be an effective therapy for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), a condition exacerbated by stress. The aims of this study were to explore whether MBSR improved IC/BPS symptoms and the feasibility/acceptability of MSBR among women with IC/BPS. This randomized controlled trial included women...

DOI: 10.1007/s00192-016-3022-8 Full text Mindfulness Chronic pain Complementary therapies Emotional stress +1

Empowering Offenders to Rehabilitate: Transcendental Meditation, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Criminal Justice System

Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute November 1, 2016 Michael S. King

Therapeutic Jurisprudence is a major force in the contemporary justice system, with its principles informing the practice of drug courts, family violence courts, mental health courts and other solution-focused courts and increasingly, mainstream judging. It values practices that support offenders’ internal mechanisms of change. The use of the self-development technique, Transcendental...

DOI: 10.66743/vqiv1140

When the dissolution of perceived body boundaries elicits happiness: The effect of selflessness induced by a body scan meditation.

Consciousness and Cognition November 1, 2016 Michael Dambrun

Drawing on the Self-centeredness/Selflessness Happiness Model (SSHM), we hypothesized that a reduction in the salience of perceived body boundaries would lead to increase optimal emotional experience. These constructs were assessed by means of self-report measures. Participants (n=53) were randomly assigned to either the selflessness (induced by a body scan meditation) condition or the control...

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.09.013 Full text

Factor Analysis of Social Indicators in the Middle East: Effects of Cultural, Military, Political, and Climatic Events and Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program

Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute November 1, 2016 David W. Orme-Johnson

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has proposed a fundamentally new theory of society, which posits a field of collective consciousness as the causal level of social organization underlying all patterns of relationships between and among individuals and social groups. The purpose of the present study was to use factor analysis to examine the inter-correlation patterns among the dependent variables used in...

DOI: 10.66743/hyxy5134

Protocol for the Mindful Student Study: a randomised controlled trial of the provision of a mindfulness intervention to support university students' well-being and resilience to stress

BMJ Open November 1, 2016 Julieta Galante, Géraldine Dufour, Alice Benton et al. 46 citations

INTRODUCTION: Levels of stress in UK university students are high, with an increase in the proportion of students seeking help in recent years. Academic pressure is reported as a major trigger. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce stress and is popular among students, but its effectiveness in this context needs to be ascertained. In this pragmatic randomised controlled trial, we...

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012300 Full text Mindfulness Mental health Randomized controlled trial Context archaeology +5

Osho Dynamic Meditation's Effect on Serum Cortisol Level.

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research November 1, 2016 Anuj Bansal, Ashish Mittal, Vikas Seth 26 citations

Dynamic meditation is one of the most popular active meditation, introduced by an Indian mystic Osho in 1970. This one hour meditation consists of five stages: Deep fast chaotic breathing, catharsis, using a mantra "Hoo", silence, and dancing. A previous study observed that Osho dynamic meditation causes decrease in several psychopathological variables such as aggressive behaviour, anxiety and...

DOI: 10.7860/jcdr/2016/23492.8827 Full text Catharsis Meditative therapy Psychotherapy Relaxation +1

12. The Science of Meditation

University of Hawaii Press eBooks October 31, 2016 Are Holen

The first big wave of scientific research on meditation came in the 1970s and mainly focused on the physiology of relaxation. The second wave, which is still ongoing, has a stronger focus on modes of attention and their neural correlates. In both waves of meditation research, Anglo-American scientists have dominated the arena, but the kinds of meditation investigated have almost exclusively...

DOI: 10.1515/9780824855710-014

Asian Traditions of Meditation

University of Hawaii Press eBooks October 31, 2016 16 citations

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to...

DOI: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824855680.001.0001

Meditation in the Classical Daoist Tradition

Asian Traditions of Meditation October 31, 2016 Harold D. Roth

The classical Daoist textual corpus, while often treated as abstract philosophy, emerged from a tradition of teachers and students that was primarily based on a common set of meditative techniques, and goals. These techniques emphasized proper posture (aligning the body and keeping it still), breath cultivation (concentrating, patterning, guiding, relaxing and expanding the breath), the use of...

DOI: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824855680.003.0010

Yantra and Cakra in Tantric Meditation

Asian Traditions of Meditation October 31, 2016 Madhu Khanna 1 citation

In Hindu Tantric meditation, yantras are visual meditative tools composed of concentric linear shapes centered on the Bindu, a dimensionless point. This essay discusses the Śrīyantra, the symbol of goddess Tripurasundarī, which represents the meta-worldview of Śākta Tantra. The Śriyantra is composed of nine circuits, which are identified with nine psychic energy centers of consciousness along...

DOI: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824855680.003.0004