Meditation affects word recognition of meditation novices

Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Attention in Novices

Past research has found that mindfulness meditation training improves executive attention and that this effect could be driven by more efficient allocation of resources on demanding attentional tasks, such as the Flanker Task. However, it is not clear whether these changes depend on long-term practice. We sought to investigate the effects of a brief, 10-minute meditation session on attention in...

Meditation

Disputes are part of everyday business life. Mostly these disputes concern minor disagreements that can be resolved through bilateral negotiations. Some disputes, however, are not resolved so easily. Sometimes, on the face of it, both parties’ positions seem irreconcilable. Such conflicts can easily become major problems to the companies concerned. They can hinder further progress in a project ...

A Meditation on Meditation and Embodied Presence

The major theories of presence in virtual worlds (social presence, co-presence, self-presence, hyper presence, and external presence) all define presence as an illusion about the virtual-ness of a virtual experience (Schultze, 2010). Their approach implies that we are always present when there is no virtuality. In this essay I will argue that 1) regardless of virtuality, we are almost never pre...

Why meditation?

BACKGROUND While many general practitioners perceive meditation as an acceptable, even mainstream, health care strategy, it is paradoxically a poorly understood discipline. OBJECTIVE To define meditation, outline the broad types of meditation and give an overview of the extent and validity of available evidence for its efficacy. DISCUSSION The basic question of what constitutes meditation a...

Clinical Application of Meditation