Meditation has stronger relationships with mindfulness, kundalini, and mystical experiences than yoga or prayer.
Author: de Castro JM1.
Affiliation:
1Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, United States. Electronic address: jdecastro@shsu.edu.
Conference/Journal: Conscious Cogn.
Date published: 2015 May 20
Other:
Volume ID: 35 , Pages: 115-127 , Special Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.04.022 , Word Count: 165
Contemplative practices can have profound effects on mindfulness and on physical and sensory and mystical experiences. Individuals who self-reported meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer, or a combination of practices and their patterns of practice were compared for mindfulness, kundalini effects, and mystical experiences. The results suggest that the amount of practice but not the pattern and social conditions of practice influences mindfulness and possibly mystical experiences. Meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer, or a combination of practices all were found to be associated with enhancements of mindfulness, kundalini effects, and mystical experiences, but meditation had particularly strong associations and may be the basis of the associations of yoga and prayer with these outcomes. The results further suggest that the primary association of contemplative practices is with the real time awareness and appreciation of sensory and perceptual experiences which may be the intermediary between disparate practices and mindfulness, kundalini effects, and mystical experiences.
Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Inc.
KEYWORDS:
Kundalini effects; Meditation; Mindfulness; Mystical experiences; Prayer; Consciousness;Yoga
PMID: 26002763
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