- It can increase brain network integration and brain oscillations which can contribute to decreased abnormal brain activities which can reduce hallucinations and delusions.
- Mindfulness training can also increase acceptance and decrease anxiety and distress, leading to an improvement in psychotic symptoms.

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Since mindfulness meditation can alleviate symptoms of distress, pain, and chronic disease, it can be used to treat hallucinations and delusions experienced by schizophrenic patients. 

What Symptoms Mindfulness Meditation can help Treat in Patients with Severe Schizophrenia

Sheng, J., et al. (2018) The effects of Mindfulness Meditation on hallucination and delusion in severe schizophrenia patients with more than 20 years' medical history. CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics.

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