Occasionally, a solution or idea arrives as a sudden understanding-an insight. Insight has
been considered an “extra” ingredient of creative thinking and problem-solving. Here we …

Buddhist-derived meditation practices are currently being employed as a popular form of
health promotion. While meditation programs draw inspiration from Buddhist textual sources …

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 …

The scientific study of Buddhist meditation has proceeded without much attention to
Buddhist literature that details the range of psychological and physiological changes thought …

Objectives We explored the effects of a mindfulness program based on the satipatthana
sutta (instead of a contemporary Western program), with participants as collaborators, using …

Unknown to most Western psychologists, ancient Indian scriptures contain very rich,
empirically derived psychological theories that are, however, intertwined with religious and …

All you need to know about the psychology of meditation: Written by an expert in the field
Provides unique theories of meditation approaches Explores traditional and Western …

Contemplative science is usually conceived either as an introspective investigation of the
meditative mind or as following methods of other scientific disciplines to study the mind in …

Objectives The jhānas are series of advanced concentrative absorption meditative (ACAM)
states brought about by meditation. While previously cultivated mostly in monastic settings, a …

This article explores the theory and practice of a contemplative phenomenology. In general,
contemplative phenomenology investi gates and describes the activity and effects of …