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The relationship between mindfulness and objective measures of body awareness: A meta-analysis.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interoception in self-harm and suicide: a scoping review and meta-analysis.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the effects of mindfulness meditation training on self-reported interoception.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Disrupted profiles of interoception and mental health in youths: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Consumer-Grade Neurofeedback With Mindfulness Meditation: Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- The Empirical Status of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of 44 Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of mindful breathing meditation on stereotype expression in two randomized controlled double-blinded trials.PloS one · 2026Trial
- Physical Activity Decreases Somatic Symptom Distress in the Affect and Symptom Paradigm.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Trial
- Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal.Cell reports. Medicine · 2023Trial
- Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction on depression, anxiety, and stress of women with the early loss of pregnancy in southeast Iran: a randomized control trial.Reproductive health · 2022Trial
- App-based mindfulness meditation reduces perceived stress and improves self-regulation in working university students: A randomised controlled trial.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2022Trial
- Stress, subjective wellbeing and self-knowledge in higher education teachers: A pilot study through bodyfulness approaches.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- The moderating role of trait mindfulness on pain perception: insights from pain-related electroencephalography oscillations.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Feeling the heat: Investigating interoception and motivation as risk factors for exertional heatstroke.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Minding the Body: A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training on Self-reported Interoception.Research square · 2025Article
- Advanced and long-term meditation and the autonomic nervous system: A review and synthesis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- Limited Validity of Breath-Counting as a Measure of Mindfulness in Ruminative Adolescents.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Validation of the Spanish Version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) and an Exploration of Its Relationship to Meditation and Embodiment Variables.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Meditation expertise influences response bias and prestimulus alpha activity in the somatosensory signal detection task.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Real-time fMRI neurofeedback boosts heartbeat perception by modulating insula activation pattern during interoceptive attention.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Although awareness of bodily sensations is a common mindfulness meditation technique, studies assessing the relationship between mindfulness and body awareness have provided mixed results. The current study sought to meta-analytically examine the relationship between mindfulness operationalized as a dispositional trait or a construct trained through short- (i.e., randomized controlled trials [RCTs]) or long-term mindfulness meditation practice with objective measures of body awareness accuracy. PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Scopus were searched. Studies were eligible if they reported the association between mindfulness and body awareness, were published in English, and included adults. Across 15 studies (17 independent samples), a small effect was found linking mindfulness with greater body awareness accuracy (g = 0.21 [0.08, 0.34], N = 879). When separated by study design, only RCTs continued to show a significant relationship (g = 0.20, [0.02, 0.38], k = 7, n = 505). Heterogeneity of effects was low (I
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