Why meditation?

Is ADHD a Stress-Related Disorder? Why Meditation Can Help

NICE and its value judgments: favourable appraisal amounts to compulsory purchase order.

The reason why NICE has not appraised yoga or transcendental meditation for stress and hypertension, or a lifestyle intervention involving 3-4 kg weight loss and 150 minutes of moderately vigorous physical activity a week as a "technology" that cuts the risk of overt diabetes by 50% is obvious. It would have been interesting to see how the implementation of such technologies would have been enf...

The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis.

In this meta-analysis, we give a comprehensive overview of the effects of meditation on psychological variables that can be extracted from empirical studies, concentrating on the effects of meditation on nonclinical groups of adult meditators. Mostly because of methodological problems, almost ¾ of an initially identified 595 studies had to be excluded. Most studies appear to have been conducted...

Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Mental State Attribution and Empathizing

The ability to infer and understand the mental states of others (i.e., Theory of Mind) is a cornerstone of human interaction. While considerable efforts have focused on explicating when, why and for whom this fundamental psychological ability can go awry, considerably less is known about factors that may enhance theory of mind. Accordingly, the current study explored the possibility that mindfu...

Meditation, disability, and identity.

Since we are all Crips in one way or another, it is well worth learning the truth of what must befall us some day, even if it hasn't already started (it has). After all, when all identities are finally included, there will be no identity. Lennard Davis, Bending Over Backwards [C]lassifications should be recognized as the significant site of political and ethical work that they are. They should ...