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August 21, 2006 1,332 citations
In this chapter I will describe how Mark Williams, Zindel Segal, and I developed a novel, theory-driven, psychological intervention to reduce relapse in recurrent major depression. The intervention, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) incorporates, as a central component, mindfulness training. We drew heavily on the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program developed by Jon...
Feeling Nureal April 20, 2006 Daphne Simeon, Jeffrey Abugel
Abstract The idea that reality is subjective, constructed from our own perceptions, is quite an ancient concept. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world,” said the Buddha. Depersonalization, a serious disruption in a person’s thoughts or sensations about their individual self, understandably alters their entire world. A person may...
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry April 1, 2006 Kedar Nath Dwivedi 7 citations
In Eastern, particularly Buddhist, thinking the process of change and impermanence is an integral part of existence. All suffering in life is the result of ignorance of this basic reality. A deeper awareness and appreciation of this fact leads to enlightenment and real happiness. It is the rapidity of change that is responsible for the illusory processes that create the sense of solidity,...
March 27, 2006 Sheri Oyan 10 citations
Musicians spend countless hours practicing their instruments over the course of a lifetime. These hours are primarily spent learning how to manipulate the instrument through scale studies, etudes, and repertoire. However, despite intense and diligent effort, many musicians find themselves unable to perform for an audience without some kind of interruption in creativity in the form of mental...
2006 W. Bodiford
Le present article examine une divinite appelee Matara qui etait a l'origine puissante, mais dont le culte a ete reprime avant de tomber dans l'oubli. Les precedentes etudes sur cette divinite ayant ete influencees par cette repression, elles ont mis l'accent sur son caractere soi-disant heterogene, « combinatoire », peu orthodoxe ou deviant. Apres une breve revue des theories les plus...
Explore 2006 Larry Scherwitz, Marcie Pullman, Pamela McHenry et al.
Inspired by a 2,500-year-old Buddhist tradition, the Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) provides residential hospice care, volunteer programs, and educational efforts that cultivate wisdom and compassion in service. The present study was designed to understand how being with dying hospice residents affects hospice volunteers well-being and the role of spiritual practice in ameliorating the fear of...
VCU Scholars Compass 2006 Sangthong Terathongkum 1 citation
PROBLEM STATEMENT: Growing evidence indicates that psychological stress contributes to cardiovascular diseases through complex neuroendocrine mechanisms. Psychological stress leads to several physiological responses including increased heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) as well as decreased heart rate variability (HRV) through alterations in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), specifically...
Qualitative Health Research December 1, 2005 Anne Bruce, Betty Davies
In this interpretive study, the authors explore the experience of mindfulness among hospice caregivers who regularly practice mindfulness meditation at a Zen hospice. They explore meditative awareness constituted within themes of meditation-in-action, abiding in liminal spaces, seeing differently, and resting in groundlessness. By opening into nonconceptual, paradoxical, and uncertain...
BMJ November 24, 2005 Samson S. Y. Wong, Kwok‐Yung Yuen 2 citations
Abstract 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (acronymized as 5-MeO-DMT) is sui generis among the numerous naturally-occurring psychoactive substances due to its unparalleled ego-dissolving effects which can culminate in a state of nondual consciousness (which is phenomenologically similar to transformative peak experiences described in various ancient contemplative traditions, e.g., Advaita...
Journal of Holistic Nursing September 1, 2005 James W Carson, Francis J Keefe, Thomas R Lynch et al.
Loving-kindness meditation has been used for centuries in the Buddhist tradition to develop love and transform anger into compassion. This pilot study tested an 8-week loving-kindness program for chronic low back pain patients. Patients (N = 43) were randomly assigned to the intervention or standard care. Standardized measures assessed patients' pain, anger, and psychological distress. Post and...