Buddhist meditation enhances artistic expression by fostering mindfulness, emptiness, and non-conceptual experience, improving artists' psychological quality, creativity, and performativity. Applications include zazen in performance, insight meditation in painting, breathwork in vocal arts, sonic meditation in music, and movement meditation in martial arts. Challenges include time constraints, cultural barriers, limited empirical evidence, and institutional resistance. Buddhist meditation holds potential as an integrative approach for artistic development and spiritual transformation, though further empirical research and contextual implementation models are needed.
A one-day loving-kindness meditation (metta-bhavana) improved participants' self-quality, including greater calm and peace, higher patience, better relationships, and reduced anger and resentment. More than 80% of 48 participants aged 16 and older agreed that the meditation was beneficial across several self-quality indicators.
Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) have gained prominence in psychology and medicine, and interest is now growing in counseling. This article reviews the mindfulness literature and examines the theoretical and practical applications of mindfulness and MBCT in counseling practice. It discusses how these approaches can uniquely contribute to counseling, offering a synopsis of their potential benefits and integration into therapeutic work.