ArticleBiology2022
Changes in Subjective Time and Self during Meditation.
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- Non-duality in brain and experience of advanced meditators-key role for intrinsic neural timescales.Communications biology · 2026Article
- The micro-phenomenology of Floatation-REST.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2026Article
- From self-organizing systems to subjective temporal extension.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Towards an active inference account of deep meditative deconstruction.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- There is no such thing as interoception.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Mindfulness, cognition, and long-term meditators: Toward a science of advanced meditation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Subjective Time in Ordinary and Non-ordinary States of Consciousness: How Interoceptive Feelings Inform Us About the Passage of Time.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Meditation-Induced Self-Boundary Flexibility and Prosociality: A MEG and Behavioral Measures Study.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The Rehabilitation Efficacy of the Novel Metronomic Breathing Technique for Gerontic Patients After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction-A Pilot Study.Clinical interventions in aging · 2024Article
- Change in Time Perception Following the Place of Pre-Existence Technique.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The monoid-now: a category theoretic approach to the structure of phenomenological time-consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study examined the effects of meditative states in experienced meditators on present-moment awareness, subjective time, and self-awareness while assessing meditation-induced changes in heart-rate variability and breathing rate. A sample of 22 experienced meditators who practiced meditation techniques stressing awareness of the present moment (average 20 years of practice) filled out subjective scales pertaining to sense of time and the bodily self and accomplished a metronome task as an operationalization of present-moment awareness before and after a 20 min meditation session (experimental condition) and a 20 min reading session (control condition) according to a within-subject design. A mixed pattern of increased sympathetic and parasympathetic activity was found during meditation regarding heart-rate measures. Breathing intervals were prolonged during meditation. Participants perceived their body boundaries as less salient during meditation than while reading the story; they also felt time passed more quickly and they paid less attention to time during meditation. No significant differences between conditions became apparent for the metronome task. This is probably the first quantitative study to show how the experience of time during a meditation session is altered together with the sense of the bodily self.
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