Today the 100th subscriber joined our meditation research blog. Welcome!!
And thank you for all your interest.
I am currently sitting in the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg discussing data from our ongoing MEG-study investigating the neural signatures of different meditation states – interesting times, indeed.
I hope to be back at my desk soon to comment on some meditation studies that were published recently
All the best from sunny, chilly Hamburg – Peter
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Hi there Peter
Ive enjoyed reading yr postings. Im an ecopsychologist and am writing up some research I did with young people living at the edge (extreme social and ecological poverty in South Africa). I spent a regular period with them over a number of weeks in a space of beautiful nature, where we used the elements (earth, water, air, fire and space) to explore internal (self) and external (social) communication. We used the elements as well as colours (yellow, green, white, red, blue)to express thoughts and emotions, as an introduction to meditation and mindfulness. Do you know of any references where such work has been done before, or published articles on such work?
Many thanks
Saskia
Hi Saskia,
this sounds like amazing work you are doing out there!!
I am not aware of any research that would directly relate to what you are doing, but would think that work considering the link between mind, experience and nature (e.g. the field of ecopsychology: http://www.ecopsychology.org ) as well as the broad topic of mindfulness in teaching and education (e.g. http://mindfulnessinschools.org/) might be relevant.
Good luck and keep up the great work,
Peter