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Mindfulness meditation – How does it work?

2011-11-22/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Meditation, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychology

Buddhist Mindfulness practice has been around for more than 2500 years. Now, revamped in a psychological and neuroscientific context, we start asking the question, how this practice actually works. Well, we are not talking about how it helps individuals to reach a state of liberation or even to move on to enlightenment, but we want to see whether some of the processes that lead to beneficial outcomes can be described in psychological and neuroscientific terminology. You may wonder if this is... Read more

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Mindfulness meditation reduces pain

2009-11-12/by Dr Peter Malinowski/in Interventions, Mindfulness, Physiology, Psychology

Even brief engagement with mindfulness meditation reduces pain: A few days ago the Journal of Pain published a study carried out by scientists at the University of North Carolina. In this studies participants took part in a 3-day mindfulness meditation practice of 20 minutes per day and evaluated the pain experienced in response to electrical stimulation. Participants rated the pain much lower after the meditation training than before. Several control manipulations were tested to confirm that the observed effect was... Read more

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Mindfulness meditation reduces pain

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