How does it feel to lack a sense of boundaries? A case study of a long-term mindfulness meditator
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This paper discusses the phenomenological nature of the sense of boundaries (SB), based on the case of S, who has practiced mindfulness in the Satipathana and Theravada Vipassana traditions for about 40years and accumulated around 20,000h of meditative practice. S's unique abilities enable him to describe his inner lived experience with great precision and clarity. S was asked to shift between three different stages: (a) the default state, (b) the dissolving of the SB, and (c) the disappearance of the SB. Based on his descriptions, we identified seven categories (with some overlap) that alter during the shifts between these stages, including the senses of: (1) internal versus external, (2) time, (3) location, (4) self, (5) agency (control), (6) ownership, and (7) center (first-person-egocentric-bodily perspective). Two other categories, the touching/touched structure and one's bodily feelings, do not fade away completely even when the sense-of-boundaries disappears.
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- Authors
- Ataria, Y., Dor-Ziderman, Y., & Berkovich-Ohana, A.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Ataria, Yochai
- ORCID
- Ataria, Yochai
- Venue
- Consciousness and Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-12
- Volume
- 37
- Pages
- 133-147
- ISSN
- 1053-8100 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1766767637
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5
- FWCI
- 9.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Consciousness and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Bial Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, long-term meditators, phenomenology of lived experience, vipassana, satipatthana, self, agency, body ownership, time perception, first-person perspective, bodily feelings
- MeSH terms
- Buddhism, Consciousness, Ego, Electroencephalography, Humans, Internal-External Control, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Proprioception, Magnetoencephalography, Meditation, Touch Perception, Brain Waves, Mindfulness
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