Meditation - Science topic

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HeartMath Global Coherence meditation practice

Dear Joshua Costar

Thank you for drawing attention to this import aspect of meditation. I also agree with Maribel Rodríguez Fernández it might cause different reactions to this knowledge in different people including fear.

However talking from personal experience when the kundalini first aroused strongly in me, I had no idea of how this would change my reality including my bodily experiences ..

I feel if I had known more at the time, my fear of the process itself would have been much less. I never realized it would awaken virtually everything that has not been integrated in my life (and even beyond it).

I now invite my pupils to see this awakening to their world of inner experiences which at times includes discomfort as a blessing and encourage them to 'surf' whatever is arises.

I have written a paper with the same name

With kindness Tina

https://news.mit.edu/2011/meditation-0505

Please see above link.

Meditation joins with the power of prayer supported by spiritual mantra which may help to keep our mind calm & quiet in midst of worries , tension & frustration . With this some years back I have also expressed my views reading as under

''As it is thru our self we may reach to higher spirit of our life in the form of religion , the power of prayer ,Meditation ,& self breathing to keep us in our silent zone

This is my personal opinion

Yoga, running and meditation were very valuable energy balancing activities throughout my academic life.

If stress level is a 2-group (high vs. low) between-subjects factor, you could run a 2 (within) x 2 (between) mixed 2-factorial ANOVA and look at the interaction of the two factors. The interaction effect would tell you whether the treatment (meditation) had a differential effect on individuals with high versus low stress levels.

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If you from your 28 questions create a total sum lucid dream dependent variable and do a linear regression analysis with your categorical variables as predictors you need to add also a continuous variable as predictor like age or some other continuous variable. From the squared part correlation you ee how many % each predictor contribute with to the total variance. From the beta you see if the contribution is positive or negative.

If you do the other way around you can do a logistic regression analysis with the dependent variable coded as 0 and 1, then use the continuous and other variables as predictors.

Using only one electrode can reduce the amount of information you can get, and reduce also the signal processing techniques (like ICA) you use to get a good features.

Good luck.

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The use of antibiotics might yield some examples. It isn't always wise to stop a prescribed regimen once symptoms are gone since the infection itself may not be completely gone.

Hello Karen,

The basic question concerning whether variable B moderates the relationship between some IV ("X") and some DV ("Y) is most simply addressed by determining whether there is an interaction between "X" and "B" (using "Y" as the DV).

This is very simple to do in a regression model: you'd have three IVs in all: "X", "B", and "X * B", and of course "Y" is the DV. If the "X*B" interaction shows up as significant, that is evidence of moderation.

As Jérémie Richard correctly points out, a lot of folks use Andrew Hayes' PROCESS macro (available for SAS, SPSS, and I think for R) to help in eliciting many of the relevant analyses. Just be sure that you select the appropriate model that would use a continuous score as the moderator, instead of a categorical score/variable as the moderator.

Good luck with your work.

hello Sir, did you publish your online work meditation? please I want to read it if it's published

Breath rate variability (BRV) as an alternate measure of meditation even over a short duration is proposed. The main objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that BRV is a simple measure that differentiates between meditators and nonmeditators.

Holly Gultiano thanks for the

Essentially, you could have as many arms as you want; one issue that occurs to me is that this would impact what type of analysis you can do and corrections that need to be applied to avoid Type I error. So perhaps it may be worth checking if the analysis you want to do (depending on what you want to assess / measure) and the software you have available can support four arms.

This page contains some useful info on appraising multi-arm RCTS: https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/toolkit/learn-ebm/appraising-multiple-armed-rcts/

This is really interesting, important and good questions for researchers consumption.

Keep it up !

Thanks a lot, dear Abeer Haq for your wonderful answer.

Yoga ( योग ) in a broad sense means a set of various spiritual, mental and physical practices developed in different directions of Hinduism and Buddhism and aimed at controlling the mental and physiological functions of the body in order to achieve an individual's elevated spiritual and mental state.

"Meditation" means "union with God." The word "yoga" also means "union with God", when an individual spirit soul unites with the Supreme Soul, completely focuses on God - her mind, body, heart, her entire being are given to God without a trace.

When one reaches the perfection called trance or samadhi, his mind, engaged in yoga, is completely withdrawn from material activities. Thanks to the purity of the mind, such a yogi acquires the ability to see his true self, and it becomes for him a source of joy and happiness. In this joyful state, he experiences unlimited spiritual bliss, enjoying transcendental senses. Having established himself at this level, a person never deviates from the truth and, having reached this state, realizes that nothing more can be achieved. He is never troubled, even in the face of the greatest calamities. This is true freedom from the suffering arising from contact with the material world.

Regards, Sergey

Hair samples aren’t likely to provoke this kind of response. Oxytocin is secreted into the bloodstream by the posterior Pituitary gland. It is secreted into blood when cells are excited and secretion depends on the electrical activity of neurons.

A variety of behaviours can increase oxytocin level like hugging, cuddling and sexual intercourse.

Further from Hair samples we can measure corticosterone, testosterone and progesterone.

Michael Uebel thank you so much

Dear Reza,

What I follow is Theravada Buddhism, therefore Vipassana after Samadhi is necessary for enlightenment.

Best,

Wenge

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Yes,the Lockdown affecting tutors performance ;its affecting on mental health of tutors as they are indulging more in their self learning readings ,preparations in order to deliver effective online classes .Also tutors are getting more stressful while delivering online lectures due to different reasons such as; Firstly,Due to network and connection issues students are not able to grasp the content at once. Secondly,delivering of content requires clarity of voice and tone to make students learn well in given time.Thirdly,it requires additional time to design attractive teaching strategies according to learning style of students.So its important for a tutor to get practical and emotional support through informal networks support strong family support(family,friends) and health professionals,When a tutor will be sound mind she will be able to deliver well and tackle all issues effectively and able to cope with mental issues very well.

@Isaac Sarfo

Thank you for following!!!

If the study is randomized, split-pot ANOVAs were developed for these analyses. From the question though the design is not entirely clear. Are you blocking on anxiety or do you intend to have 4 groups (one high anxiety intervention, on low anxiety intervention, one high anxiety control, one low anxiety control)?

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Tnanks for sharing this question.

Transitional meditations

Use the meditation technique with your believe

Really it reduces all sorts of stress particularly the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect and really assists in achieving some kind of relieving.

The success of any organization is for selecting the right type of personnel at the right time. For selecting a candidate we have to study his resume & in the line of information we have to evaluate a candidate for his recruitment action.

With this, it depends on the requirement of the company but why selecting a candidate for the requirement of the job we have also to make a confidential note for the study of candidate & after this if necessary we should send him to training program so that his services may turn out to be fruitful

This is my personal opinion

From a neurobiological standpoint, here are two articles that probably bear on this topic:

1) "Temporal circuit of macroscale dynamic brain activity supports human consciousness" _ Science Advances.htm; and

2) "Two_Distinct_Neuronal_Networks_Mediate_t.pdf"

I just came across them - food for thought!

Dear friend.

I would like to add a note on it.

As per my concern there is no negativity possible in meditation.

Also there no disadvantages found regarding meditation.

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I found this in http://digitaldonne.tamu.edu/resources/robertsbib/Roberts1996.pdf

Donne, John. John Donne: 77 Wierszy, trans. and ed. Stanisław Barańczak. (Biblioteczka PoetÓw Jézyka Angielskiego, Vol. 16, gen. ed. Stanisław Barańczaka.) 2nd. ed. KrakÓw: Wydawn Znak. 224p. First ed., 1984.

Presents a general introduction to Donne’s life and poetry (5–[14]), followed by translations into Polish (with English texts on the opposite page) of 34 selections from the Songs and Sonets, 8 elegies, 10 epigrams, Sat3, Storm, Calm, Goodf, the Holy Sonnets, Christ, Sickness, and Father (16–197) with notes (200–13). Concludes with a selected bibliography (214–16), an alphabetical list of the English and Polish titles of poems (217–20), and a table of contents (221–[25]).

Hello Kenan Al Akad,

Recently I read an article on the subject and they used the PHQ9, it has been applied in patients with breast cancer, so I could consider it or investigate a little more about it.

Regards.

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The use of PLS allows simultaneous testing of connexions among variables. Hence, using PLS, the research hypotheses are simultaneously tested. Also, as opposed to other multivariate techniques, PLS has no reliance upon the normality assumption (distribution-free). This is owes to PLS being non-parametric in nature. Still, for assessment of local model, there should be consideration on assumptions including multicollinearity and goodness of fit indices.

I agree with @Florian Schuberth in regarding to account for the attenuation bias introduced by measurement errors, you have to use PLSc to confirm your results.

Research follows scientific methods, and thus standardized procedures are necessary for the accurate interpretation of data obtained. Meditation being an umbrella term, there is no standardized protocol used for research purpose. But specific meditation practices, if they are scientific, will have certain pre-determined properties that must be followed by all researchers to make the results comparable.

Let me give an example. Mindfulness meditation is one of the most widely used meditation technique used in psychological researches. There is no single standardized form of mindfulness, but there are several mindfulness-based interventions, developed for and standardized among specific populations. For instance, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy (MCBT), Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement and so on have separate and specific set of goals and applicable in a particular population alone. What is required for stress reduction among people with mood disorders will be totally different from relapse prevention after smoking cessation. And, the procedures must also be standardized to ensure good reliability and validity.

The above mentioned techniques will yield comparable results because they all utilizes mindfulness skills for reducing clinical symptoms and promoting healthy behaviors. Duration for each therapy is also similar - approximately eight week to ten weeks on average.

Hi Mary,

The topic is interesting. Though not exactly similar but my area of work is - preference and choice in CAM and conventional medicine.

Meditation/yoga are part of complementary medicine and the effect of the same are not particularly understood by people at blue collar level, specially in underdeveloped and developed countries. Where yoga is understood as a form of exercise than its integrated mind body perspective and blue collar workers, mostly being active physical workers feels no further need for it.

Secondly, in most of the countries till date expenditure made on Yoga/Meditation is not covered by insurance.

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Breathing rhythm, body posture, slow physical exercises and introspective techniques: interactions with chronic pain and biomechanics.

Goal: Goals: In this independent, full-free project, (1) we will study theoretically and empirically how chronic pain can be affected by the way we breath and move our body. Conversely, (2) we will study how chronic pain can modulate our movements, breathing patterns and cognitive processes. SPANISH: En este proyecto independiente, totalmente libre, estudiaremos de forma teórica y empírica cómo el dolor crónico puede verse afectado por la forma en que respiramos y movemos nuestro cuerpo. A la inversa, estudiaremos cómo el dolor crónico puede modular nuestros movimientos, patrones de respiración y procesos cognitivos. Related/previous work: Gomez-M JF 2014 Chrono-rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis. Short Presentation. Meeting with ALEM, Multiple sclerosis Association Medical School. CES University, Colombia. 2014. See researchgate.net

Date: 13 July 2018

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Hi - sorry

This is not my projekt

R. Gielen

I try to answer not with what i studied for my neurology exam.

Reading is a really complex function, which, in the normal person, actually stresses out several different brain skills as auditory, visuospatial and logic ones.

Basically in the individual without hearing problems, reading, both with loud voice or in his mind, means transforming the graphems into their correspondant sound, and after having "heard" it understanding through wernicke's area ad insular language centre.

People who, themselves, have hearing problems since their birth, are probably able to skip this two-phase process and, directly send the graphems to be logic matched with a meaning in the language area, without converting them into sound.

Sounds clear that the temporoparietal networks where the recognition of graphems as meaningful visual elements must function in order to keep this process, and it is here, where the visual part of reading happens, that dyslexia happens, if something goes wrong.

You can find these information on Adams and Victor's principles of Neurology.

Good luck for your thesis!

Dear Abhijit Mitra ,

Cognitively speaking, there are two broad families of meditation: Focused attention (FA) and Open monitoring (OM), both forms of meditation recruit activity from the prefrontal cortex. If you define concentration as the ability of not letting irrelevant stimuli to catch your attention (i.e., you do not want to be distracted by noise when writing a paper), then FA might be regarded as the purposeful training of this ability. Indeed, because research shows that attention is malleable as any other cognitive skill (memory, learning, etc.), the explanations of how FA helps concentration is simply that practicing the top-down processing (involved in FA) generalizes to everyday activities.

The story with OM is maybe more interesting because it involves practicing the ability of putting attention, without censorship, to your own stream of consciousness (or the stream of environmental stimulation perceived). So it looks like OM has more participation in detecting new events in the environment or in the flow of consciousness, and it is related to bottom-up attentional processes, but still requires activity from the prefrontal cortex. So it is more difficult to understand how OM reduces mind wandering. I have found very useful the research by Lorenza Colzato and Bernhard Hommel to understand the involvement of meditation on attention and learning.

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Dear Angok.

Neuroscintist Antonio Damasio has written a lot about emotions and fellings and their influence on one's behavior. You can proffit a lot from reading him.

As I see it, emotions are, say, the energizer of one's behavior.

Best regards,

Olando

Daniel Wright and thank you for your intervention. As I mentioned, I have already written my first attempt of thesis and it was rejected due to alignment problem and because of vaguity of research (I wanted to measure too many things at the same time by using MANOVA). Now, I have focused my research on mediation/moderation effect of media news, but I am not sure how to approach the problem of variables. Media news (social information) is packed as I have described above. Trust variable was measured with TrustMe questionnaire (lickert scale 1-5), while stress was measured with PSS scale for perceived stress (lickert scale 1-5) and GSR mouse for psycho-physiological response to stress where resistance from 0-3,5V, where high values represents high resistance and low-stress response, and low values mean low resistance and high-stress response. Why not a pilot study? At this point I want to use collected data and make sense of it in thesis. (This situation is a result of poor communication between my dissertation adviser and me). As I have understood the theory, there are some assumption that need to be met before starting the statistical test that measures the mediation/moderation effect (http://davidakenny.net/cm/mediate.htm; http://davidakenny.net/cm/moderation.htm).

All variables are:

Yes..feel more at ease.

How can we measure "feeling". How can we see "thoughts". Why is a life so important? Why are people like Me and You spending our life to save a "life". What happens after I die? Why does it matter?

History is full of people/emperors/kingdoms who vanished and were destroyed. Who once ruled and killed and looted. And today no one remembers them. Many hate them. Does emotions matter?

Because of one word : me, I, my...

When I think I'm right, and I know more..

Thats when I can never think outside the box. I can never think critically, although I may think that I Do quite a bit of critical thinking.

I can never travel the world.. and learn other's languages. And see how different they live. Yet, better than I ever did. And how much knowledge I've missed!!. .so many effective herbs as medicines I've never heard of. Without any side effects! And I have alot more to learn. ..if I will.

Tehrim Khaliq Indeed , smell based impairment is very rare work. I mean with the accessibility and web accessibility terms how to facilitate interaction and knowledge acquiring tasks for different types of the disabilities.

I have worked in this track for time, If you're interested please refer to my profiel and feel free to contact me.

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Samaa

Thanks Michael, I'll try to follow that up.

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and read about salutogenesis e.i. medicine of health = integrative or holistic medicine

jerzy

I think that it can be useful to explore the hypothesis that staying for a while in a natural environment can change our daily activity priority list, inducing us to give more importance to our own material necessities ( food, physical safety, etc.) and less importance to social necessities ( linked to appearance and power for example ). This condition could reset our reward and self esteem psycological balance. .Also, natural environnment for his natural importance and beauty could help us to find a narcisistic balance that in a artificial environnment we could find more difficult to get ( for example, if I enjoiy walking in the wood near my home I dont have to go walking in a crowded and far commercial mall.).

Added thoughts. I did 3 week-long holotropic breathwork and Vipassana intensives in the 1990s led by Jack Kornfield and Christina and Stan Grof. This was life transformative for me. The holotropic breathwork released visions (images, vivid hallucinatory visuals, somatic and movement phenomena), the prima materia of abuse, trauma, self-blockages, 'past lives', birth trauma, etc. Then small groups were given paper and cray-pas to record their experiences. Finally, Samatha/Vipassana was used for individuals to integrate what was released plus new material arising in meditation with compassion, wisdom and insight. My breathwork released a major repressed childhood trauma memory, which was stored physically in my body, and Grof himself released by pushing into pain-tension areas. This convinced me that Freud was right about existence of 'repression' (despite his variable causal hypotheses) and the psychologists who believed no such thing and only forgetting or false memories were basically ignorant both on an academic and personal level. Vipassana was very helpful in integrating the released memories in relation to the mass of human suffering (dukkha) and compassion and lovingkindness to begin a healing process.

During my weekly Vajrayana sangha practice, which aims at neither 'no-self' nor 'self' nor 'no-thought' but the interminable allowing thoughts, sensations, and internal dialogues to arise as they will, and then returning to concentration, as a creative intuitive feeling person, I displace (or de-place) from such a contemplative technique (i.e., subject-object relationship) to allow feeling of pure awareness, which sometimes results in stunning spiritual-psychological insights and creative responses to scholarly research problems, interpersonal issues, and somatic challenges.

I must also add that building on my Grof-Kornfield holotropic experiences I have found Body Sensing retreats extremely valuable to continue self-exploration. Here I recommend Richard Miller (iRest, etc.) and teachings of the late Joan Ruvinsky, trained by Jean Klein. Now when I do Vajrayana meditation I like to add in a complete body-sensing of the -- in my teaching -- nine chakra regions of the body, the 3x3 trikaya bodies, from crown to muladhara and reverse (hint of Taoist 'circumambulation of the light'). This I find very helpful in entering into deep meditation (Dzogchen-style). To repeat earlier comment, I do not seek 'non-thought emptiness or no-mind'. I seek release of tensions and relaxation into the trikaya, with by-product of mental, spiritual and artistic creativity.

Best regards

You could also try motor imagery during fMRI. Kinesthetic or visual imagery can be quantified through certain questionnaires. As an example see here:

I think, experts in martial arts vs. novices or laymen could produce interesting and strong effects.

Comparing mindfulness to the concept of meditation in eastern philosophy, mindfulness is not meditation. It is and exercise to be aware of present moment.

Researches have proved that it has benefits in day-to-day life.

The objective of meditation (esp. in eastern philosophy) and mindfulness is totally different.

Alex,

I would strongly recommend first making sure that you have an appropriate design for testing mediation.

See:

Fiedler, K., Harris, C., & Schott, M. (2018). Unwarranted inferences from statistical mediation tests–An analysis of articles published in 2015. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 95-102.

Kline, R. B. (2015). The mediation myth. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37(4), 202-213.

If the answer is yes (and it often is not), I would start here:

Sardeshmukh, S. R., & Vandenberg, R. J. (2017). Integrating moderation and mediation: A structural equation modeling approach. Organizational Research Methods, 20(4), 721-745.

Briefly, this can be done in SEM by freely estimating the paths you want to compare, and then testing that model against a model in which you constrain the paths to equality. However, you should take into account the recommendation for "full" versus "partial" mediation from the papers cited above.

I do not think the specific test you are interested in can be conducted in SPSS, but I may be wrong.

Thanks Mohammed for suggestion. I am rather interested in type of questionnaire which suggests positive outcomes of meditation either through cognitive or emotion.

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La manifestation clinique comme la disparition du psoriasis dépendent de si nombreux facteurs, qu'on simplifie l'étude de son étiologie en évoquant "l'environnement", "la prédisposition" les "HLA...", quel qu'en soit la clinique, puisqu'il peut être cutané et/ou arthropatique, sa définition anatomo-pathologique étant l'abcès de Munro et Sabouraud.

Il en est de même pour l'eczéma, ou "les eczémas" qui ont pour caractère commun la spongiose, alors qu'il est lui aussi en équation avec une pathologie "interne", l'asthme...

Dear

My view and approach IS non-dualistic scientific enquiry (w/r to human behavioral science) . Any nature/nurture debates resolve as well as other dualistic and contentious issues, e.g. continuous development vs. abrupt changes. I have stated my basic position (esp.: large paper: "A Human Ethogram ... ") and provide full explication in 100s of essays. See

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You can take a baseline heart rate before starting, and then after the stimulus and during the relaxation exercise you watch the heart rate and decide it is ok when it is down to the baseline. Good luck!

Why not do both? One is an integration, another is a differentiation.

Sleep sometimes feels like a differentiation though too in a way.

@Mary

Your question reminds me of a Zen tale I heard from the maverick composer John Cage (presented in his book Silence)

In a competition for selecing a Haiku Master, in which no participant could know what the others compose, the 2nd prize winning haiku said: The mind is a mirror, it collects dust. The 1st prize winning question was: Where is the mirror? Where is the dust?

I am aware of interventions employing special rooms (multi-sensory room - Snoezelen) for patients with severe mental retardation, and their positive effect (e.g., Fava, L., & Strauss, K. (2010). Multi-sensory rooms: Comparing effects of the Snoezelen and the Stimulus Preference environment on the behavior of adults with profound mental retardation. Research in developmental disabilities, 31(1), 160-171.)

I agree that employing ad-hoc environments, fostering calm and focused attention, could be an interesting mean to facilitate meditation practice in certain populations, such as elderly or novice in general.

I would be interested in receiving your presentations.

Thank you! I tried and the BMIS is definetly better for my purpose! :-D