Meditation has stronger relationships with mindfulness,kundalini, and mystical experiences than yoga or prayer |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Geriatric Psychiatry (AV, KK), Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, ON;2. the Geri-PARTy Research Group (SGT, AP, MS, KJL, SR), Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal;3. the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (JT, AG, VN, SR), Montréal;4. Department of Psychiatry (HL), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;2. Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Laboratory of Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;3. Institute of Human Performance, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;4. Department of Social Work & Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;5. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;6. Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;7. The State Key Laboratory of brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Meditation Yoga Prayer Mindfulness Kundalini effects Mystical experiences |
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