The Five-color Tea-meditation is one of Wonher Ji-Woon's Loving-kindness & Compassion Tea-meditations using five different colors of tea. The five colors are yellow, white, red, green, and blue. These five colors are not only the actual colors of tea, but also the colors created by imagination. In this study, the Five-color Tea-meditation was considered from three perspectives based on the...
This study is about the system that must be equipped for Tea Meditation to take place in the field of meditation. A meditation system must be established as there must be a purpose for meditation, and there must be a departure, direction, method, and step to reach the goal. Tea Meditation has an independent meditation system. The Tea Meditation system consists of four stages: recognition of...
Abstrak Lupus ( Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) atau SLE adalah penyakit autoimun kronis. Efek psikologisnya antara lain emosi yang tidak stabil, perasaan lemah, putus asa, cemas, takut dan memicu depresi. Intervensi terhadap emosi negatif dapat memperbaiki kondisi kesehatan klien. Salah satu caranya adalah menjaga dan memupuk emosi positif, seperti selalu bersyukur. Rasa syukur diketahui terkait...
Traditional spiritual literature contains rich anecdotal reports of spontaneously arising experiences occurring during meditation practice, but formal investigation of such experiences is limited. Previous work has sometimes related spontaneous experiences to the Indian traditional contemplative concept of kundalini. Historically, descriptions of kundalini come out of Tantric schools of Yoga,...
In modern society, Buddhist doctrines and Western psychological counselling are applied in numerous ways for psychological healing. As western psychological counselling programs are developed based on Buddhist doctrine, this study aims to compare and examine the Mindful Self Compassion(MSC) meditation program designed by Dr Christopher K. Germer and Dr Kristin Neff with the practice of 5 stages...
Mindfulness has come to be considered an important approach to help individuals cultivate transformative capacity to free themselves from stress and suffering. However, the transformative potential of mindfulness extends beyond individual stress management. This study contributes to a broadening of the scope of contemplative science by integrating the prominent, individually focused mindfulness...
The main concern in this paper is to explore the relationship between Jaina ethics and meditation techniques proposed in the Jaina scriptures and its foundations. Meditative practices have been practiced in Jaina tradition for centuries. We also find a difference between the interpretation of scriptures (especially Digambara and Svetambara) regarding meditation, and it also sometimes gets...
In the last decade, Mindfulness-based interventions have been increasingly used in health care settings, particularly in the context of cancer. Research documents the efficacy of these interventions for decreasing the burdens of stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep disorders, and other symptoms. This article describes the case report of a patient with breast cancer, highlighting her...
Mindfulness is one of the most popular psychotherapeutic techniques that help to promote good mental and physical health. Combining mindfulness with immersive virtual reality (VR) has been proven to be especially effective for a wide range of mood disorders for which traditional mindfulness has proven valuable. However, the vast majority of immersive VR-enhanced mindfulness applications have...
Scientific ReportsJune 28, 2022Pascale Künzi, Michael Ackert, Martin Grosse Holtforth et al.
Transdiagnostic psychotherapeutic approaches are increasingly used in neurorehabilitation to address psychological distress. Animal-assistance is thought to increase efficacy. The present study evaluates a psychotherapeutic mindfulness- and self-compassion-based group intervention (MSCBI) with and without animal-assistance for patients with acquired brain injury. Patients (N = 31) were randomly...