Meditation / Mindfulness · 11 articles
Meditation and mindfulness articles
Find help with a busy mind, supported sitting, natural breathing, the seated body scan, and finishing a session. Research articles explain the programs and outcomes actually studied.
11 articles
Getting started
2 articles
Meditation and Mindfulness: A Plain Beginner’s Guide
Understand meditation, mindfulness, and structured courses. Learn why an empty mind is not the goal and what to look for in a clear first practice guide.
Meditation for Beginners: Notice, Return, and Finish
Learn a first seated breath-awareness practice: find support, notice natural breathing, return after distraction, and finish without forcing calm or stillness.
How to practice
5 articles
How Meditation Works as a Practice: Notice and Return
Understand the attention task in breath awareness and body scans. Separate noticing, judging, and imagining, without requiring a blank mind or unusual feelings.
Seated Body Scan Meditation: The Route and the Finish
Learn a seated body scan from support contact to whole-body awareness. Follow the attention order and handle distraction, unclear sensations, and stopping.
Meditation Progress: Learn to Return and Finish Well
Gain familiarity with one meditation guide before adding time or changing methods. Review attention, support, and endings without grading yourself by stillness.
Meditation Posture: Chairs, Open Eyes, and Support
You can learn meditation without sitting cross-legged. Explore steady support, eye position, background sound, and preparing an audio guide before you start.
Mind Wandering in Meditation: Return or Take a Break?
Learn how to return when your mind wanders, and distinguish ordinary distraction from sleepiness, painful posture, or distress that calls for stopping.
Comparisons
1 articles
Research
3 articles
Meditation Benefits: Body Scans, Courses, and Evidence
Separate feeling calmer from measured health outcomes. Read the evidence for body scans and structured mindfulness courses, with participants and limits clear.
Meditation for Stress: What the 2014 Review Reported
Read a review of 47 meditation trials: anxiety, stress, and sleep results differed. Understand active controls, small effects, and limits of short audio guides.
Mindfulness and Anxiety: What the Eight-Week Trial Shows
Understand the MBSR anxiety trial: 276 randomized adults, 208 in the main analysis, substantial guided practice, a noninferiority margin, and reported harms.
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First Chi does not currently offer a meditation course in the app. The homepage step-learning example uses Jingang Gong; it is not a meditation recording.
