Defining a complex intervention: The development of demarcation criteria for “meditation”.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality May 1, 2009 Kenneth Bond, Maria B. Ospina, Nicola Hooton et al. 67 citations
The authors used a 5-round Delphi study with a panel of 7 experts in meditation research to achieve agreement on a set of criteria for a working definition of “meditation” for use in a comprehensive systematic review of the therapeutic use of meditation. Participants agreed that essential to a meditation practice is its use of (a) a defined technique, (b) logic relaxation, and (c) a...