Meditation - Science topic

Sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Participation in sports requires fitness to gain better physical performance. Depending on the sport an athlete competing in sport would need strength, stamina, reflexes, accuracy, dexterity, flexibility, endurance of various muscle groups and joints that are required to enhance one’s performance in that sport (1). Apart from this mental conditioning, stress reduction and will power are important factors needed in a competitive sport (2). While yoga can be useful in conditioning oneself in any sport (3,4); developing these attributes by practice of asanas can also be a sport in itself. YOGA AS A SPORT Yoga as a sport is also termed as Competitive Yoga. It is the performance of asanas in sporting competitions. The competitive yoga i.e. yoga competitions are being held in India since several decades. The Concept of Competitive Yoga is not limited only to perform asanas, but also includes the practice of kriyas, Pranayama, Mudras and Meditation by the participants. The aim behind initiating competitive yoga was to bring awareness about yoga, its benefits and spiritual background in young community. In the initial days that is around 5000 years back, the yoga competitions were composed of all the angas of yoga as mentioned above. But now the form of the competition is just practicing asanas. Several countries over the years have embraced yoga as a sport. Competitions have been conducted in several forms and styles of yoga like Iyengar, Hatha, Vinyasa, etc. for different age and gender groups. Participants are evaluated based on grace, poise, stability, balance, relaxation, holding the breath, effortlessness, perfectness of posture, retention time etc. Participants are asked to do few poses in a given time and are judged by a group of judges. It has been declared as a competitive sport in the country in 2015. The practice of asana can be very physically challenging, and the words “effort and ease” are mentioned in the Yoga Sutras: Sthiram Sukham Asanam, yoga posture is an expression between effort and ease. Alignment, stability and effortlessness play a vital role in this competition. The first world asana championship was held in Uruguay and India in 1986. Since then there have been many national and international yogasana championships. This, together with the perceived lack of spirituality, emotional benefits and relaxation associated with yoga, are among the biggest critical comments against yoga as a competitive sport. However, there are several aspects that motivate people to take up Yoga. For some using yoga to be physically fit motivates people to take up this challenge to endure difficult poses that gradually led to development of yoga as a competitive sport. This has been nurtured by several schools that propagate advanced poses such the Hatha yoga schools and Iyengar yoga schools to name a few. Though there has been a raging debate on using yoga as a sport, there has been a concerted effort by several countries who like to see this as an Olympic sport.

The relationship between science and spirituality has long been a subject of debate, often framed as a dichotomy—science grounded in empirical evidence and logical reasoning, and spirituality rooted in faith, intuition, and transcendence. Historically, the two have been seen as separate, with science focusing on the material world and spirituality addressing the metaphysical. However, recent advancements in various fields of science, particularly quantum physics, neuroscience, and cosmology, have begun to blur the lines between these traditionally distinct realms.

As science continues to uncover the mysteries of consciousness, the nature of reality, and the origins of the universe, new questions arise: Can spirituality, which encompasses the search for meaning and the experience of the divine, be reconciled with scientific inquiry? Can modern science, in its pursuit of understanding the fundamental laws of nature, leave room for concepts such as God, purpose, and interconnectedness?

Furthermore, many contemporary thinkers and scientists argue that spirituality could be incorporated into modern scientific frameworks. Practices like meditation, mindfulness, and consciousness studies have already demonstrated measurable impacts on human health and cognition. The exploration of how spiritual experiences can be understood and validated within scientific paradigms opens exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary research.

Could you please correct the title of my book The Passion for Music, a sociology of mediation. You quote it through its review with a wrong title, it's about mediation, not meditation! AH

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I would like to know the difference between Meditation and Mindfulness.

I want to meditate and practice mindfulness for 1 hour without getting distracted by my own thoughts. How do I focus completely on meditation and prevent unwanted thoughts in my brain?

I propose as a subject for a discussion my text "Creativity, promotion of creativity and destruction of creativity". The text has been published in the Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Creativity in Innovation - ECCI 2022 (9-10 November 2022), pp. 110-118 - https://books.aijr.org/index.php/press/catalog/book/154. In our analysis, we would like to expose some ideas on creativity, promotion of creativity and destruction of creativity. Our general intent is to show that creativity is not reserved for geniuses but, on the contrary, belongs to all individuals. Moreover, we aim to describe how creativity can be promoted in individuals in different ages of their life. Finally, we wish to expose that creativity is a disposition which always needs to be cultivated with all possible care: for creativity can be easily damaged or even destroyed because of a false education of the individuals or due to negatively organised work environments. For our investigation, we shall take elements from different sources: we shall analyse ideas expressed in the works of Teresa Amabile, we shall consider the criticism of traditional pedagogy exposed in the meditation of Paulo Freire, we shall propose some examples of the black – namely the poisonous – pedagogy contained in the work of Katharina Rutschky, we shall present Alice Miller’s criticism of determined models of education, and we shall the inquiry into the concept of innovation exposed in the research of Tina Seelig. The works of Teresa Amabile will show that creativity is a faculty which belongs to all individuals, not only to the most endowed ones. Amabile shows in her book different examples of the ways in which creativity and motivation are improved both in schools and in companies; she analyses how, on the contrary, creativity and motivation are damaged and destroyed in schools and in companies. With the help of Amabile’s inquiries, we shall show the importance of making progress in the work both in schools and in the work environments: people and their progress ought always to be supported in order that the disposition to creativity can function. People always need positive consideration in schools and in work environments. Rutschky’s analysis of the poisonous pedagogy will show us how certain methods of education lead to the destruction of any creativity whatsoever and of the whole personality of the individual. Alice Miller’s works will give further examples regarding the destruction of autonomy through traditional methods of education. Thanks to Paulo Freire’s meditation we shall see how creativity depends on the models of society: in particular, concepts like the bank account of education and internalisation can teach us how the individuals in the schools are transformed into a completely passive audience, thus losing any capacity whatsoever of proposing innovation in the work and in the society. The structure of society and the aims of society determine the models of schools operating in society. The works of Tina Seelig will finally give us the possibility of seeing the different components needed for the development of creativity: for instance, imagination, knowledge, resources, and culture will prove to be essential components of creativity. Bibliography Amabile, T., Growing Up Creative: Nurturing a Lifetime of Creativity, Crown Amabile, T.M. & Stubbs, M.L., 1989. Amabile, T., Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology Of Creativity, Westview Press, Boulder, CO 1996. Amabile, T.M. & Kramer, S.J., The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, Harvard Business Review Press, Boston 2011. Freire, P., Pedagogia do Oprimido, Paz e Terra, Rio de Janeiro 1974. Freire, P., Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Myra Bergman Ramos, Trad.). (Original work published in 1970), The Continuum Publishing Company, New York 1992. Miller, A., Am Anfang war Erziehung. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1980. Miller, A., Du sollst nicht merken. Variationen über das Paradies-Thema. 1. Auflage. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981. Rutschky K. (ed.), Schwarze Pädagogik. Quellen zur Naturgeschichte der bürgerlichen Erziehung, Ullstein, Berlin 1977; Neuausgabe ebd. 1997. Seelig, T., inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity. HarperCollins, 2012.

Complete Treatment of Diabetes (Very briefly).

Formulated by Sumeru Ray (Maharishi MahaManas)

If no internal organs are severely damaged then complete recovery is possible through this treatment. There are no side effects of this treatment. However, without sufficient knowledge, consciousness and desire to gain health, this treatment method of mine will not be effective. 'I will just take medicine and be fine'. This way of thinking must be abandoned.

It is a four-pronged treatment method. These include:

1) A nanomedicine specially made from human pancreatic gland that will heal the pancreas. Another nanomedicine associated with this will protect patients from autoimmune disorders.

2) A combination of herbal medicine that will heal the liver, gallbladder and digestive system.

3) Meditation and Nidra Yoga should be practiced regularly in the prescribed manner to gain mental well-being. Along with that, light exercise should be done regularly.

4) Autophagy or fasting should be done every fifteen days. Or to fast every night.

Although I created this method long ago, I never tried to establish it. Because establishing a new medical system requires a lot of effort and spending a lot of money which is not possible for me at this age. If any powerful person and organization come forward, I am ready to help them on condition. thank you

Keywords that may be inspire your thoughts:

1. Fulfillment

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5. Retreat

6. Temple

7. Ancient

8. Cosmic

9. Awareness

10. Wisdom

11. Awakening

12. Love

13. Joy

14. Peace

15. Past Life Regression

16. Astrology

17. Yoga

18. Pure Food

19. Happyness

20. Emotional Intelligence

21. Psychic Intelligence

22. Conscious leadership

23. Nature

24. Shared purpose

25. Natural technology

26. Gift economy

27. Inspiration

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31. Relationships

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35. Meditation

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37. Music

38. School

39. Work place

40. Online Platform

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43. Books

44. Podcasts

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46. Global Community

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50. Life force

I'm researching about side effects of meditation and another spiritual practices (like reiki). Sometimes call me patients with these kinds of problems: emptiness, kundalini emergence, dark night of the soul, anxiety crisis or depression symptoms after a meditation retreat, etc.

For these reasons I write this article:

But there are not many works in this way, and less about treatment of these patients. Do you know about it?

Dear colleagues,

Anybody remember the large breathing/meditation research conducted by MIT?

I remember the study is conducted ONLINE in late 2010s.

I believe it's conducted via MIT, but not 100% sure... The online enrollment is opened, the participant learn breathing, and control themselves including anxiety and many other things.

Any clues, please?

What mediation model should I chose

Hypothesis: Pain Catastrophizing Mediating the effect of Psychological Flexibility on Physical Functioning in Patients with Chronic Pain over time

I have one measure before starting acceptance commitment therapy (in an RCT), 6 months after, 12 months after, and now years after.

Could I use a longitudinal meditation model to look at the relationship between pain catstrophising, psychological flexibility and physical functioning over time?

Is latent difference score mediation appropriate?

Teacher: I feel so exhausted all the time

Central Office: Have you tried yoga or running or meditation?

I am doing a research(as part of 3rd semester) on the effect of meditation on academic stress. Aim of the study is to see if meditation has helped university students in academic stress reduction, through paired sample t-test for understanding pre and post study. I am also trying to understand if only the participants with high level stress in pre study were benefitted and the participants with low stress level has maintained the score. Which statistical test can I use to address the second part of my aim?

We are two third year bachelor of psychology students looking into using PsychoPy for a continuous performance task. (CPT)

Our project is about the interactions between boredom proneness and sustained attention in the context of mindfulness meditation.

If you have any references or tips for us, we would gratefully take in account your advices.

1)What is the appropriate statistical method for analyzing research data since the predictor variable is discrete and the criterion variable is continuous?" the predicting role of hand superiority, creating a work of art and practising meditation in a lucid dream" The data on creativity and meditation practice are classified as yes and no, handedness with right and left and lucid dream data with a 28-question questionnaire.

2) what are the best statistical methods to compare these three groups of data( left/right-handed, mediator/non-mediator, create a piece of art/ non-create)? Variance? Or t_test?

A client's depression has not been alleviated although she has been completely compliant with treatment. She has no family history of other mental illnesses. She has tried pharmaceuticals (Prozac, Wellbutrin), diet changes, exercise, meditation, and lifestyle changes for the last 30+ years and now wants to be off of antidepressants. Since psilocybin is still not approved clinically for depression, she wants to be able to legally participate in a study she believes could help many people including herself.

Hi! For my project I must use Neurosky Mindwave EEG, which only has one electrode, and it is placed in Fp1 area. I have been doing research and it seems that I can't study anything related to P300 there. However, attention or meditation states are well reflected in that place. Are there any other aspects which can be studied in Fp1 considering that I have no information about other areas? Thank you all in advance.

For your information, there is a special meditation method called 'Mahamanan'. In fact, it is self-development meditation or Atma-Vikas Dhyana.

Google search: MahaManan

Our paper is about adaptations of practices from the East in the West, including yoga, mindfulness and other forms of meditation. We are looking for references that support that practices are compromised when not applied in full. This could be because of people or organisations 'cherry-picking' what suits them while ignoring the philosophy in which they are embedded, or other examples that have been soundly explored, or a related theory.

Thanks in advance, scholars!

I am going to have a control and an experimental group. My experimental group will be receiving compassion meditation. I am measuring pre and post scores of relaxation. I have the personality factor openness as a moderator. How do I run this in SPSS?

the meditation sessions are similar to any other training programs containing lectures, discussions, and practicing, etc.

Heart Rate Variability is a well known and useful concept in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences. Breath Rate is a lesser researched field and a newer measure Breath-Rate Variability is introduced recently to quantify meditation effect.

It is gaining attention of researchers as BRV has a number of novel applications. What could they be.

A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves, both with frequencies lower than 1500 Hz, with less than a 40 Hz difference between them, are presented to a listener dichotically.The difference between the two beats form a third beat (binaural). Auditory beat stimulation can be used to modulate cognition, reduce anxiety levels, increased focus, increased concentration, increased motivation, increased confidence, deeper meditation as well as to enhance mood states.

Will be it a valid research design or else there is a need to control group? I have heard about 3-armed randomised controlled design. Is it possible to have 4-armed randomised controlled design.

I request all senior researcher to clarify it.

Many time during meditation whole body feels the flow of electricity like the thing is it bio electricity or something else why this occurs but after that generally, I felt so miracle experience....how and what is this...

we all have our own thought and experience regarding yoga and meditation, we all know it's a miracle unexplainable to those who do he/she feel it.What's your view regarding it.

interested in assessing long term improved oxytocin secretion in subjects doing mindfulness for years and how this has an impact on long term cortisol which can be measured in hair samples. 

hi, i'm looking for some article about mindfulness meditation + aromatherapy to reduce stress and anxiety. Anyone could suggest, please.

PS: i'm doctoral student for Buddhist Psychology and finding lit review for my dissertation. Thank you.

Altered states of consciousness (ASC) induced by meditation, psychedelic drugs, or impending death are quite a fascinating but challenging field of investigation. By exploring the mechanisms behind essential phenomena in ASC from a unique perspective, we find out that ASC are a story about perception in nature: The interaction between two sources of stimulation to perception, the shutting down of perception, the filtering mechanism of perception and the delusions of perception.

At the meantime, we discover the correlation between Buddhism and ASC: the essence of Buddhist Vipassana is enhanced awareness in ASC.

Thereupon we introduce time dimension and reveal the science behind Buddhism.

Altered states of consciousness (ASC) induced by meditation, psychedelic drugs, or impending death are quite a fascinating and important field of investigation. This paper argues that ASC essentially have nothing to do with consciousness, but a story about perception. Furthermore, by introducing time dimension, we reveal the science behind Buddhism from a psychological perspective.

Our study starts from summarizing four essential phenomena (hallucinations, paranormal phenomena, mystical experiences and enhanced awareness) in ASC on the basis of empirical materials of Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and others.

Then we propose an original model for hallucinations as a breakthrough: When false internal stimulations and external objective stimulations affect perception together, the changes in their relative strength will result in the consistence, breakdown and re-consistence of the five senses, leading to three basic states of hallucinations (one can distinguish reality from fantasy, one cannot distinguish reality from fantasy, and reality and fantasy are totally reversed).

As an implication of this model, the third state of hallucinations suggests a novel hypothesis to interpret extrasensory perception (ESP): the essence of ESP is that false internal stimulations are mistaken as external objective stimulations which enter through sensory organs, while real external objective stimulations are mistaken as perceptions which do not result from sensory organs when one is in deep hallucinations. Moreover, in the second state of hallucinations, the inconsistence of the five senses can also explain various marvelous psychedelic phenomena in ASC in combination with the amplifying function of enhanced awareness discussed later and the mechanism of out-of-body experiences. Thus, we arrive at a conclusion that paranormal phenomena are simply illusions that happen along with deep hallucinations.

Mystical experiences occur in Samatha. Based on the experiential description, it can be inferred that the essence of Samatha is perception shutting down to activate a new mode of apperceiving, one totally different from the usual five sense mode of perception. Hallucinations also disappear because perception shuts down.

Enhanced awareness is highly significant in ASC and could be explained by a perception-filtering model in light of Henri Bergson’s innovative idea: In ordinary conditions, perception has a natural threshold for its sensitivity for the purpose of biological survival; but in ASC, awareness becomes more sensitive because the perception-filtering function gets weakened to allow the influx of more details, resulting in various unusual capabilities, one of which is Buddhist Vipassana.

Finally, we develop a universal framework comprising two dimensions (three mechanisms and three stages) to study ASC. By figuring out the complex relationship among them, we reveal the mystery between Buddhist tranquility and insight: Enhanced awareness after Samatha is the path to attain enlightenment.

During the period between 2010 and  till date we encountered  only one case of bullous pemphigoid. We treated the case with Wrightia tinctoria extract. There was disappearance of signs and symptoms in 12 months of treatment. No signs and symptoms appeared  after discontinuing treatment for one year.and six months. The patient was advised healthy dieting and maintain healthy life style.

How do you administer your daily time for completing work tasks and deadlines?

Do you have program your time following a schedule? Are you exercising?

Are you doing meditation or other type of mental relaxing activity?

There are many COVID 19 related issues in terms of how to deal with the continuum of teaching and learning. I am meditating about what the future performance results will be for both the student teachers and tutors as we administer the online mode.

I need examples of Spiritual Healing Techniques to De-stress the Library Professionals. Spiritual Healing Techniques like Meditation, Reiki healing, Re-programming Mind, Positive Thinking etc...

Hello,

I am currently in the middle of a project and cannot figure out what statistical test I should use?

In this hypothetical study, my group and I are looking at the effects of a meditation intervention on anxiety levels, EMG activity and golf putting performance. These 3 variables would be measured at two time-points: baseline and post-intervention. To assess whether the meditation program was effective, a control group would be used that doesn't do the meditation program.

So to sum up, we would have:

2 groups: Intervention and control

2 time-points: Pre- and post-intervention

2 different anxiety conditions: Low and high-anxiety

2 dependent variables: EMG activity and putting performance

I understand that the test needs to combine within-subject elements (due to the timepoints and anxiety conditions) and between-subject elements (putting performance and EMG activity). So would a mixed-mode ANOVA be used?

I would appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Kind regards,

T.S.

I am interested in studying the anatomical and functional connectivity of human brain using graphs, and their evolution in time. This can be used to distinguish different states in which the brain exists at different times - say, executive tasks, meditation, focused attention such as in video games, etc. I am looking for a good reference book (well-written and with practical examples of the concepts) on how the matrices describing the different types of connectivity can be analyzed and manipulated to extract different kinds of information.

Bonjour,

Je travaille sur mon mémoire qui traite des effets de la méditation sur les enfants dyslexiques : amélioration de leur lecture (vitesse et erreurs) et gestion de leurs émotions. J'aimerais utiliser la CAMM et la AFQ-Y pour une évaluation quantitative AVANT et APRES le protocole de méditation, mais je ne trouve pas le mode d'emploi de ces échelles, à savoir comment elles sont cotées. J'ai lu que pour la CAMM, avoir des scores hauts est prédictif d'une non présence mais je n'ai rien de précis ni de scientifique.

Ainsi, vous serait-il possible de me dire comment on traite les réponses à ces échelles ?

Par avance un grand grand merci pour l'aide que vous pourrez apporter à la réalisation de mon mémoire.

Bien à vous,

Sandrine

I am interested in discussing ways to interrogate guided meditations, specifically journeys and quests, for inclusive language. How do practitioners and educators who incorporate guided meditations work to be more inclusive? I recently decided not to use a guided meditation because of its ableist language. In attempting to reconstruct the script, I began thinking of the assumptions made in guided meditation and began wondering if anyone is doing the work.

For my undergraduate research project, my experimental group is watching a mindfulness meditation video (15 minutes) to relax them. I want a control group to watch a video as well, but one that isn't too exciting or relaxing, but neutral. Any suggestions?

As a polyglot invalid 65%, I feel more armed to face myself in confinement. I know how I can help friends and neighbors. It's time to bury all war axes. The real time for a better world.

I am currently recruiting for research study participants for my dissertation. The topic is "The experience of practicing mindfulness meditation among African American female doctoral students.

Terry Badey-McClelland

I had practiced focused attention meditation and had profound mystical experiences back in 1961.

The after effects were also very strong.

Fast-forward to the years 1964-1992 when I was engaged in research and development in the USA defense industry. Here I was able to see patterns and recognize analogies that others overlooked. This led to many breakthroughs, inventions, and other innovations.

Part of this success I attribute to my ability to SWITCH at will back and forth between the pragmatics of the problem to be solved versus looking at the problem and its context in an unfiltered way - without the baggage of conventional categories or labels or methodologies.

Simple search in Google Scholar shows that since 1960-70 many articles in peer-reviewed journals have supported various desirable effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) but some people here and there claim that the research has always bee. Funded by certain organizations and people who benefit from advertising TM and the published evidences are not so reliable. Is that really true?

I have come across a lot of research and articles that praise mindfulness meditation. Its ability to biologically change the brain and improve mental well-being are well documented. However, is there any literature on any psychological or physiological negative changes in people due to Vipassana meditation or similar?

Different perspectives and opinions are also welcome.

Several scientists came with the finding that Practice of Meditation increase the alpha waves production, is it the only finding we have till date or any new findings are there?

I'm currently studying for an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, and am researching the effects of meditation and mindfulness on creativity and creative writing for therapeutic purposes. I was hoping for advice on research/ readings?

Stanisław Barańczak no doubt translated John Donne's Meditation XVII into the Polish language (most probably as Medytacja XVII). Unfortunately, for unknown reasons, the available databases and bibliographies do not include the precise bibliographical reference to that translation. I will be very grateful to anyone able to provide it to me.

I am planning to conduct a study to asses the impact of the Twin Hearts Meditation on females with breast cancer. I plan to use pre and post scales to assess the depression levels in my participants. Many people recommended the Zung depression self-rating scale. Is it suitable or should I find a better scale?

I am doing meditation where life satisfaction is a mediator between Tourism Impact and Quality of life and I want to compare this model in two regions. Do I have to check the mediation in both the region separately or there is any other way? kindly suggest a way.....

I am currently working on final analysis for my study. My research model contains the constructs which plays the role of mediating and moderate role. I would like to know the method to be used in SPSS or AMOS to find out the same. Also would like to know the best option which is useful.

There are different meditation techniques .I want to know specifically rajyoga meditation practiced by Brahma Kumari's

Hello Deep Thinkers,

Would like to invite you to become involved in a discussion related to my research on wage-earners/blue-collar workers and their avoidance of Mind-Body Practices (i.e., yoga and meditation) to manage stress. More specifically, why are wage-earners so under-engaged in meditation and/or yoga for stress relief in or out of the workplace, in-spite of re-enforcing positive health literature on Mind-Body Interventions?

Thank you in advance for your time and attention,

MC Palasi

Meditation practices from India have attracted the interest of experimental neuroscience for many decades, with very interesting but also controversial and sometimes contradictory results. The leaders in these practices, like the Dalay Lama, have indicated their anti-dogmatism in relation to any (extra)ordinary claim of these practices. Have these occidental studies of meditation rescue appropriately the original Indian techniques ?

Some researchers indicate that the results of these studies should not be misconstrued as therapeutic effects. They should not be taken as evidence for truly therapeutic effectiveness...Recent results suggest that there is not clear positive effects on mindful breath awareness practice, for instance (Schöne B, Gruber T, Graetz S, Bernhof M, Malinowski P 2018 "Mindful breath awareness meditation facilitates efficiency gains in brain networks: A steady-state visually evoked potentials study" Sci Rep. Sep 12;8(1):13687. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32046-5).

If there are important issues in this remarkable and ancient introspective effort of India, what should be the correct way to study meditation by neuroscientists?

Hin

I don't seem to find any further details on the project. I'm quite curious about the project as I've been practicing regular (1-2 hours / day) meditation for many years and have find it immensely helpful in personal, professional and social life. So I would be very interested to know bit more about the project. Many thanks.

Asta

Hello,

I am writing my thesis on the effects of mindfulness meditation on reading in dyslexic children and I am looking for research on how reading works in the brain (what areas of the brain are activated, what mechanisms are involved...) that I would like to relate to the areas of the brain that are activated during meditation.

I know that now, thanks to neuroimaging, we have more accurate data but I can't find any solid documents on it.

Thank you for reading my message and I hope to find answers here.

Good continuation in your work and research.

Sandrine BRASSE

Bonjour,

Je fais mon mémoire sur les effets de la méditation de pleine conscience sur la lecture des enfants dyslexiques et je cherche des recherches sur le fonctionnement de la lecture dans le cerveau (quelles zones du cerveau sont activées, quels mécanismes sont mis en jeu ...) que j'aimerais mettre en relation avec les zones du cerveau qui sont activées pendant la méditation.

je sais que maintenant, grâce à la neuro imagerie, nous avons des données plus précises mais je ne trouvent pas de documents solides là dessus.

Merci d'avoir lu mon message et j'espère trouver ici des réponses.

Bonne continuation dans vos travaux et vos recherches.

Sandrine BRASSE

What is the scientific reason behind this?

e.g. my book (French version) title is La Passion musicale. Une sociologie de la médiation -- not méditation!!

Dear Researchers,

I'm looking for neuroscience article on different type of emotion and how they influence our daily routines behaviours. I'm looking for type of emotion, feeling/affect and causes

Any sugegstion would be much appreciated

Thanks

Angok

My first attempt in thesis was a subject of missalignment and too many dimensions of investigation. I‘m researching the moderation effect of media news on levels of trust and stress at work. My first dissertation advisor missed to propose some of the important suggestions about my thesis. At this point I would like to use existing data to perform moderation/medition effect of media news on the trust-stress relationship.

The problem I encounter is how to define media news variable and transform it from categorical into continuous.

Social information - media news variable description:

- in the first attempt media news were fixed factor

- media news has been assmebled with real TVmedia news collected from three different media houses from their internet portals

- positive media news relates to the connotation of presented content (four different news clipped in one video of total length 8:44)

- negative media news relates to the connotation of presented content (5 different news clipped in one video of total length 8:46)

- there were three different interventions:

If I want to measure mediation/moderation effect I have to transform media variable into continuous variable. Any suggestions?

Variables and hypothesis:

How media news moderates the relationship between trust and stress levels at work? Measuring the moderation effect - the moderator variable is manipulated:

1. Moderator - intervention

a) Positive media news = 1

b) Negative media news = 2

c) No intervention = 3

2. Causal variable - Trust:

a) Low

b) High

3. Outcome variable - Stress:

a) Perceived stress levels = ordinal (Lickert scale) transformed into low/high - dichotomous 

b) Psychophysiological response to stress = continuous

(delta resistence) - (low/high) - dichotomous

Hypothesis: 1. NH: There is no change in stress levels when media news moderates trust levels. 

2. H1: When trust is low, perceived stress levels are high.

3. H2: When trust is high, perceived stress levels are low.

4. H3: When trust is low, psychophysiological response to stress is high.

5. H4: When trust is high, psychophysiological response to stress is low.

I mean, new wave for peace, should have a what new trait?

For example, religious mans say the meditation can help peace (with positive waves) and sometimes they are right!!

Can you help me for identity these waves?

I wonder whether anyone may be able to share anecdotal evidence regarding the efficacy or otherwise of binaural beats stimuli on things like meditation, lucid dreaming, dreaming, creativity, sleep, shamanic journey meditation, cognition, concentration, imagination, visualization, etc?

The Integrative Medicine is gaining popularity and acceptance as it consists of many healing therapies to treat many diseases. In mini form it is existing in India as Ayurved doctors always prescribes medicine, diet, yoga, meditation, mantra etc. but the present emerging IM is covering many existing therapies so domain is wider. There is need of a post-graduate course of general integrative medicine open for all medical graduates. As it advances the specialty integrative post graduate course may be introduced like integrative cardiology etc.

These are theories with which I'm familiar so far:

1) Attention Restoration Theory

2) Predictive and Reactive Control

3) Natural settings evoke meditative-like states (which in turn reduce rumination, which prompts a sympathetic nervous system trend towards a more relaxed state)

What other compelling theories are out there that specifically address (or at least explore) the neural, psychological and/or biological mechanisms by which interaction with nature helps to reduce stress...?

(Responses that include links to quality resources would be appreciated.)

Many thanks!

Catherine

Vipassana meditation has been addressed by various authors. But none mentioned the relationship with self psychoanalysis. I believe it is related, based on my own experience. I wonder anybody has similar experience.

There are precedents such as those made by Dr. Andrew Newberg in which meditative or religious activities such as prayer can cause the brain to have greater activity at the level of the frontal lobes of the brain. These protocols can be applied to more dynamic activities

I want to know about mindfulness, its advantages if any.

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Thanks

I have a model which is to compare the outcomes of two competing IVs (testing which has more of a magnitudinal effect) on two DVs/outcomes, through 1 mediating variable.

Basically how do I analyse through SEM? I realise I have two full mediation models but I then to compare the full mediation models against each other and I dont know if I can do this through SEM?

I am not particularly bothered about the magnitude comparison of the mediation variable effect its just to show it has an effect on the DVs - its the magnitude of the outcomes from the IVs that I am focusing on.

Also can it be done using SPSS?

Thank you!

I need a questionnaire which can measure performance of individual who are undergoing in meditation very first time.