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The shift began when the first research studies of meditation, notably transcendental meditation (TM), inspired the groundbreaking clinical paradigms of the 1970s and 1980s: Herb Benson’s relaxation response and Jon Kabat-Zinn’s mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) (Beary & Benson, 1974; Kabat-Zinn, 1982).
Emily J. Wolf • Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation
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This system works to protect us in our outer environment.
Dr. Joe Dispenza • Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
This is the very essence of meditation: we reprogram unconscious mental processes by repeating basic tasks over and over with a clear intention.
Culadasa John Yates • The Mind Illuminated - A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
Goleman, Daniel. The Meditative Mind. New York:Tarcher/Putnam, 1988.
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
hole. As she read more about Buddhist philosophy, she noticed a similarity in its ideas to David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, and she began to wonder if there were Eastern roots in the Western Enlightenment. So began her quest to link Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit missionary to Tibet who wrote about Buddhism in 1728, with David Hume, who
... See moreShigehiro Oishi • Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
Ram Dass once said, “After many years of undergoing psychoanalysis, teaching psychology, working as a psychotherapist, taking drugs, being in India, being a yogi, having a guru, and meditating for decades, as far as I can see I haven’t gotten rid of one neurosis. Not one. The only thing that changed is that they don’t define me anymore.
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
The original aim, embraced in some circles to this day, focuses on a deep exploration of the mind toward a profound alteration of our very being.