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Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by Yi-Yuan Tang; Yinghua Ma; Junhong Wang; Yaxin Fan; Shigang Feng; Qilin Lu; Qingbao Yu; Danni Sui; Mary K. Rothbart; Ming Fan; Michael I. Posner is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body–mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training. The training method comes from traditional Chinese medicine and incorporates aspects of other meditation and mindfulness training. Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate Chinese students given 5 days of 20-min integrative training showed greater improvement in conflict scores on the Attention Network Test, lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity. These results provide a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training by using experimental and control methods similar to those use

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Author

Yi-Yuan Tang; Yinghua Ma; Junhong Wang; Yaxin Fan; Shigang Feng; Qilin Lu; Qingbao Yu; Danni Sui; Mary K. Rothbart; Ming Fan; Michael I. Posner

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231147316

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Buddhism, Christian

Rating

3.95 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13