Mounting evidence demonstrates that meditation can lower pain and emotional distress in adults, and more recently, in children. Children may benefit from meditation given its accessibility across a variety of settings (e.g., surgical preparation). Our findings suggest that martial arts-based meditation modulates negative self-referential processing and may have implications for the management of pediatric pain and negative emotion.
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