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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"effects of meditation"”.
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The relationship of therapist meditation practice to their existential therapeutic work
… investigation examines the correlation between meditation practice and the therapeutic work performed by existential therapists. Through in-depth interviews with therapist-meditators (n=8), the study fills a crucial gap in empirical research concerning the phenomenological experiences of …
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The effects of mindfulness meditation on attention regulation
… in this thesis tested the claim that mindfulness meditation regulates attention. Attention regulation was operationalised as an improvement on alerting, orienting or executive attention measured using the Attention Network Test (ANT), or a reduction in the attentional blink (AB) effect, measured …
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The Embodied Mind: Mindfulness Meditation as Experiential Learning in Adult Education
The focus of the thesis is on i) theoretically investigating how meditation and education can work together, and ii) empirically studying the educational and cognitive effects of meditation on adult subject, with special regard to the subjective experience description. In concrete, it is my …
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Developing Higher Consciousness: The Effects of Mantra Meditation on the Development of Self-Actualizing Qualities in Teachers
… to secondary level who have practiced mantra meditation for at least three years while also teaching. By utilizing the methodology of portraiture, this study endeavored to determine if the practice of mantra meditation creates self-actualizing qualities in teachers, how teachers who practice …
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Mindful Mornings: Piloting a Meditation Group with Vulnerable Adults in a Drop-in Center
<p>An accumulation of stress and lack of coping resources can contribute to a higher incidence of mental and physical health disparities. Homeless adults are one of the most vulnerable subgroups who utilize Enterprise Resource Center, a peer-run day-center in Marin County. Because stress from …
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Perspectives on the Impact of Meditative Traits on Relationships among Advanced Practitioners of Meditation
This qualitative study is an exploration of advanced meditators' understandings of how the personal traits developed through meditation have influenced their relationships. The term meditation refers to self-regulation practices that train attention and awareness. A "meditative trait" refers to the …
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The effect of meditation on anxiety in sport
… present research examined the proposition that meditation is an effective technique that can manage both components of multidimensional competitive state anxiety, as well as state self-confidence in sport. According to writers in Buddhist meditation (Buddhathasa, 1990; Sekida, 1975; Vajiranana, …
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Mindfulness Meditation for Intimate Partner Violence
… and therapists experienced intrapersonal effects as well as relational effects from meditating, both within and outside of session. Little research examines the relational impact of meditating, or the use of meditation as a strategy for helping couples who experienced intimate partner …