Topic: Meditation

Mindfulness meditation during difficult times

[This post is an updated version of my post "Mindfulness meditation during shutdown" (12-04-2020), written during COVID lockdown.

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Mindfulness Meditation Exercises

This growing section introduces and offers guidance for key mindfulness meditation exercises. Most of them are part and parcel of

Meditation Mindfulness Meditation Methods

What is Equanimity?

Equanimity plays an important role in Buddhist psychology and in the last few years also gained traction in psychological research,

Meditation Basic Principles De-centering

Mechanisms of Meditation: How do positive effects of meditation come about?

Here we summarise a long list of proposed mechanisms of meditation that outline how positive change resulting from mindfulness meditation

Meditation Mindfulness Mechanisms

Can meditation lead to harm?

While there can be no doubt that engaging in mindfulness practices or meditation can lead to harm or unpleasant or

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Is mindfulness meditation harmful? [updated]

A comprehensive study based on a dataset of more than 2,400 participants in mindfulness-based stress reduction programmes found that

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The Science of Mindfulness Meditation

A brief explanation of the science of mindfulness meditation, how meditation works from a scientific perspective, what psychology and neuroscience

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Mechanisms of Mindfulness - The IAA model

Mechanisms of mindfulness meditation: The Intention – Attention – Attitude model A good understanding how mindfulness meditation unfolds its beneficial effects is

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Mindfulness meditation: ten minutes a day improves cognitive function

Practising mindfulness meditation for ten minutes a day improves our cognition: after eight weeks meditators performed better in concentration tasks

Meditation Mindfulness neuroscience

Negative side effects of meditation

Given the rising popularity of meditation as a means to improve mental and physical health and wellbeing, it may seem

Meditation Psychology

What do we mean by meditation?

With current use of umbrella terms, a 5-minute meditation exercise from a popular phone application might be treated the same

Meditation Terms and Definitions

Meditation and ageing: Cognitive improvements in older adults

Yet another year is coming to an end and our time seems to be ticking away. Anyone feeling a bit

Meditation Mindfulness neuroscience

Meditation and Neuroplasticity visualised

Meditation and Neuroplasticity: Five key findings (articles up to 2014)

Meditation not only changes our mind but also our brain – this is what more and more neuroscientific research suggests. Neuroplasticity

Meditation neuroscience

Advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice raises body temperature

Studying ten meditators of Tibetan Buddhism, a recent international research project provides solid evidence for centuries-old reports that through the

Meditation Vajrayana

Cognition and Emotion in Meditation

Research has convincingly shown the positive effects of mindfulness meditation practice on attentional mechanisms. I discussed some of these findings

Meditation neuroscience

Loving Kindness Meditation - and the brain

The majority of current research into meditation so far focused on mindfulness-based practices and similar methods. Recently, this has shifted

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Meditation improves telomerase activity

Meditation improves telomerase activity: a healthier life – but not for all! Three months in a meditation retreat may have significant

Meditation Health

Meditation changes brain connectivity

– a recent study revealed underlying mechanisms of white matter change Over the last few years, research has established that meditation

Meditation neuroscience

Mindfulness and Cognitive Control

An important ability in life is the ability to act automatically. Once we have learned how to ride a bicycle

Meditation Mindfulness neuroscience

Mindfulness and obesity

Almost three weeks since the last post. NO! – meditation and mindfulness research did not come to a sudden standstill. I

Mindfulness Meditation Health

How mindfulness meditation works

Buddhist mindfulness practices have been around for more than 2500 years. Now, revamped in psychological, therapeutic and neuroscientific contexts, questions

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