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. 2021 Aug 19;12:720579. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720579

Table 1.

Reported regularly practised activities before and after the participants' most powerful SSA/SKA.

Regularly practised
activities
Before
(% of sample)
After
(% of sample)
Difference
(% of sample)
Contact with nature 68.4 74.3 5.9
Spiritual literature 58.6 75 16.4
Mindfulness 55.9 73.7 17.8
Meditation 54.6 79.6 25
Lucid dreaming 37.5 49.3 11.8
Athletic activity 34.9 40.1 5.2
Psychedelics/
Entheogens
30.3 26.3 −4
Breathwork 28.3 53.9 25.6
Fasting 27 31.6 4.6
Sleep deprivation 23.7 26.3 2.6
Other yoga 22.4 29.6 7.2
Hatha yoga 19.1 24.3 5.2
Sacred sexual intimacy 18.4 34.9 16.5
Other 15.8 21.1 5.3
Tantra 12.5 21.7 9.2
Kundalini yoga 11.2 24.3 13.2