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Can meditation lead to harm?

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While there can be no doubt that engaging in mindfulness practices or meditation can lead to harm or unpleasant or adverse effects, currently meditation research is not in a position to provide accurate estimates how likely such experiences are or under which conditions they may occur. Publicised prevalence estimates should thus be treated with scepticism. In a 2020 blog post, I discussed a study into potential negative side effects of the mindfulness-based stress reduction programme (MBSR). This study by Hirshberg... Read more
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Is mindfulness meditation harmful? [updated]

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A comprehensive study based on a dataset of more than 2,400 participants in mindfulness-based stress reduction programmes found that mindfulness meditation is not harmful in terms of psychological or physical symptoms, compared to no treatment. To the contrary, MBSR in the community appears to prevent harm. Update (13 Sept 2020): At the time of our initial post [01 Aug 2020], this study was only available as preprint, not yet peer reviewed. Meanwhile it has been peer reviewed and published in... Read more
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From state to trait mindfulness

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A recently published study suggests that increasing the ability to be mindful in daily life through mindfulness practice depends on how mindful participants experience to be during their practice. A neat study carried out at the University of North Carolina investigated a hypothesis that is part and parcel of mindfulness-based interventions: When people engage in a mindfulness-based training programme it is assumed that their immediate experience of being mindful – so-called state mindfulness – increases. Furthermore, it is assumed that the... Read more

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Mindfulness – History and Key Principles

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What is mindfulness meditation and how did it come about? The history of mindfulness-based stress reduction Mindfulness meditation entered public awareness through the pioneering work of Jon Kabat-Zinn (2007). In the late 1970s, he extracted a few basic meditation practices from their Buddhist framework to introduce them as universally applicable – non-spiritual – exercises. His […] Our knowledge base is for members only. To access this entry, either log in to your membership account or sign up for one of... Read more

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