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  2. John Hagelin - Wikipedia

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    John Samuel Hagelin (/ h eɪ ɡ ɛ l ɪ n /; [1] born June 9, 1954) is a physicist and the leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement in the United States. He is president of Maharishi International University (MIU), formerly Maharishi University of Management (MUM), in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of trustees.

  3. Richard Hittleman - Wikipedia

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    Through his books, lectures, recordings and TV programs, he brought Yoga to more people than any other person alive at the time. He was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It has been said that Richard Hittleman introduced Yoga to literally millions of people via the medium of television. [ 6 ]

  4. Mindfulness - Wikipedia

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    Vipassana meditation, presented as a centuries-old meditation system, was a 19th-century reinvention, [134] which gained popularity in south-east due to the accessibility of the Buddhist sutras through English translations from the Pali Text Society. [117] It was brought to western attention in the 19th century by the Theosophical Society.

  5. Effects of meditation - Wikipedia

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    Electroencephalography has been used for meditation research.. The psychological and physiological effects of meditation have been studied. In recent years, studies of meditation have increasingly involved the use of modern instruments, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography, which are able to observe brain physiology and neural activity in living subjects ...

  6. Mindfulness-based stress reduction - Wikipedia

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    Mindfulness meditation is a method by which attention skills are cultivated, emotional regulation is developed, and rumination and worry are significantly reduced. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 4 ] During the past decades, mindfulness meditation has been the subject of more controlled clinical research, which suggests its potential beneficial effects for ...

  7. Self-healing - Wikipedia

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    Self-healing refers to the process of recovery (generally from psychological disturbances, trauma, etc.), motivated by and directed by the patient, guided often only by instinct. Such a process encounters mixed fortunes due to its amateur nature, although self-motivation is a major asset.

  8. Meditation - Wikipedia

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    The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". [11] [12] In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, [12] [13] before which the Greek word theoria was used for ...

  9. Faith healing - Wikipedia

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    Believers assert that the healing of disease and disability can be brought about by religious faith through prayer or other rituals that, according to adherents, can stimulate a divine presence and power. Religious belief in divine intervention does not depend on empirical evidence of an evidence-based outcome achieved via faith healing. [2]