{"id":68,"date":"2013-06-21T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-04-22T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T10:08:03","slug":"time-perception-altered-by-mindfulness-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2013\/06\/21\/time-perception-altered-by-mindfulness-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Time perception altered by mindfulness meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New published research from psychologists at the universities of Kent and Witten\/Herdecke has shown that mindfulness meditation has the ability to temporarily alter practitioners\u2019 perceptions of time \u2013 a finding that has wider implications for the use of mindfulness both as an everyday practice, and in clinical treatments and interventions.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Dr Robin Kramer from Kent\u2019s School of Psychology, the research team hypothesised that, given mindfulness\u2019 emphasis on moment-to-moment awareness, mindfulness meditation would slow down time and produce the feeling that short periods of time lasted longer.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the findings, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/stories\/time-perception-mindfulness-kramer-psychology\/2013\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New published research from psychologists at the universities of Kent and Witten\/Herdecke has shown that mindfulness meditation has the ability to temporarily alter practitioners\u2019 perceptions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2013\/06\/21\/time-perception-altered-by-mindfulness-meditation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140630,3684,70],"tags":[140632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}