[HTML][HTML] Phenomenological fingerprints of four meditations: Differential state changes in affect, mind-wandering, meta-cognition, and interoception before and after …

BE Kok, T Singer - Mindfulness, 2017 - Springer
Despite increasing interest in the effects of mental training practices such as meditation,
there is much ambiguity regarding whether and to what extent the various types of mental …

It matters what you practice: Differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project

T Singer, V Engert - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•An undifferentiated view of what mindfulness can achieve has developed.•Variant
types of meditation-based mental practices should be studied differentially.•The ReSource …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for the empirical investigation of mindfulness meditative development

J Galante, A Grabovac, M Wright, DM Ingram… - Mindfulness, 2023 - Springer
Millions of people globally have learned mindfulness meditation with the goal of improving
health and well-being outcomes in both clinical and non-clinical contexts. An estimated half …

Experiencing meditation–Evidence for differential effects of three contemplative mental practices in micro-phenomenological interviews

M Przyrembel, T Singer - Consciousness and cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite increasing interest in effects of meditation, systematic in-depth research on how it
qualitatively feels to engage in different kinds of contemplative practices is still missing. To …

Meditation and health: The search for mechanisms of action

BE Kok, CE Waugh… - Social and Personality …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Psychological interest in the impact of mental states on biological functioning is growing
rapidly, driving a need for new methods for inducing mental states that last long enough, and …

From a state to a trait: Trajectories of state mindfulness in meditation during intervention predict changes in trait mindfulness

LG Kiken, EL Garland, K Bluth, OS Palsson… - Personality and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Theory suggests that heightening state mindfulness in meditation practice over time
increases trait mindfulness, which benefits psychological health. We prospectively examined …

Daily mindful responding mediates the effect of meditation practice on stress and mood: The role of practice duration and adherence

J Lacaille, G Sadikaj, M Nishioka… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Although meditation practice is an important component of many mindfulness‐
based interventions (MBIs), empirical findings of its effects on psychological functioning are …

How does mindfulness meditation work? Proposing mechanisms of action from a conceptual and neural perspective

BK Hölzel, SW Lazar, T Gard… - Perspectives on …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Cultivation of mindfulness, the nonjudgmental awareness of experiences in the present
moment, produces beneficial effects on well-being and ameliorates psychiatric and stress …

Psychological effects of meditation for healthy practitioners: an update

P Sedlmeier, C Loße, LC Quasten - Mindfulness, 2018 - Springer
In recent years, interest in the effects of meditation has increased considerably, which might
have had an impact on the outcomes as well as on the methods used. The present meta …

Comparing mindfulness-based intervention strategies: Differential effects of sitting meditation, body scan, and mindful yoga

SE Sauer-Zavala, EC Walsh, TA Eisenlohr-Moul… - Mindfulness, 2013 - Springer
We investigated whether three different meditation practices that are commonly used in
mindfulness-based interventions lead to differential changes in psychological health …