Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Professor Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was originally developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center to improve the quality of life of those living with anxiety, pain and illness. Centuries-old meditation techniques are demystified and are integrated into an eight-week program where participants learn to heighten their awareness and to live more fully, moment to moment. http://www.mbsrbc.ca/pages/about.htm

Meta-analysis of MBSR & Health Benefits. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is astructured group program that employs mindfulness meditation to alleviate suffering associated with physical, psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders. The program, nonreligious and nonesoteric, is based upon a systematic procedure to develop enhanced awareness of moment-to-moment experience of perceptible mental processes. The approach assumes that greater awareness will provide more veridical perception, reduce negative affect and improve vitality and coping. In the last two decades, a number of research reports appeared that seem to support many of these claims. We performed a comprehensive review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished studies of health-related studies related to MBSR. http://pckar39022.googlepages.com/MBSR_metanalysis.pdf

Mindfulness In Clinical Practice. The practice of mindfulness is increasingly being integrated into contemporary clinical psychology. Based in Buddhist philosophy and subsequently integrated into Western health care in the contexts of psychotherapy and stress management, mindfulness meditation is evolving as a systematic clinical intervention. This article describes stress-reduction applications of mindfulness meditation predominantly in medical settings, as originally conceived and developed by Kabat-Zinn and colleagues. It describes process factors associated with the time-limited, group-based format favored by this model, and presents in tabular form results of both early and more recent outcome studies. http://pckar39022.googlepages.com/Mindfulnessmeditationinclinicalpract.pdf

Understanding MENTAL ILLNESS

Schizophrenia

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/schizophrenia/index.shtml

http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/schizophreniahandbook.html

Depression

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml

Bipolar Disorder

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder-easy-to-read/index.shtml

Anxiety Disorders

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/complete-index.shtml

The Art Of Anger Management

The Art Of Anger Management:

A Buddhist Psychospiritual Approach

This talk was delivered in Nalanda Buddhist Society (NBS), Serdang in 2005. It's my attempt to intergrate anger management principles that I have learned from Buddhist and contemporary psychotherapy

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Reincarnation, Medicine & Psychiatry

Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson

Division of Personality Studies,
Department of Pychiatric Medicine,

University of Virginia, USA

The phenomena of claimed memories of previous lives: possible interpretations and importance - Medical Hypothesis, 2000 54(4): 652-659

Summary: Several disorders or abnormalities observed in medicine and psychology are not explicable (or not fully explicable) by genetics and environmental influences, either alone or together. These include phobias and philias observed in early infancy, unusual play in childhood, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, a child’s idea of having parents other than its own, differences in temperament manifested soon after birth, unusual birthmarks and their correspondence with wounds on a deceased person, unusual birth defects, and differences (physical and behavioral) between monozygotic twins. The hypothesis of previous lives can contribute to the further understanding of these phenomena. For full text journal paper, click on 'Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson"

Dr. Ian Stevenson's research homepage:

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html

Antidote for DEPRESSION

Contentment As An Antidote For Depression

This audio CD on the role of contentment in dealing with depression is available from Brickfields Maha Vihara (BMV)

For downloading: Track 1

For downloading: Track 2

Depression: A Buddhist Perspective

http://viewonbuddhism.org/depression.html

Depression: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/complete-index.shtml