Loving-Kindness Meditation to Target Affect in Mood Disorders: A Proof-of-Concept Study
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 Stefan G Hofmann, Nicola Petrocchi, James Steinberg et al. 70 citations
Conventional treatments for mood disorders primarily focus on reducing negative affect, but little on enhancing positive affect. Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a traditional meditation practice directly oriented toward enhancing unconditional and positive emotional states of kindness towards oneself and others. We report here two independent and uncontrolled studies carried out at...