Healing Power Of Meditation

Description

Regular meditation practice has a powerful impact on the mind and body, rewiring the brain and bringing us all kinds of benefits: contentment and well-being, resilience and focus, better mental and physical health, and greater empathy and compassion. This wide-ranging anthology brings together pioneering Tibetan Buddhist teachers, scientific researchers, and health professionals to offer fascinating perspectives on the mind and emotions, new studies, and firsthand accounts of how meditation is being applied to great effect in health and social care today.

- Sogyal Rinpoche and Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche on how meditation unlocks the mind's healing power
- Jon Kabat-Zinn on the benefits of mindfulness in mainstream health care
- Clifford Saron on the Shamatha Project, the most comprehensive study of the effects of meditation ever conducted
- Sara Lazar on what happens to our brain when we meditate
- Erika Rosenberg on how meditation helps us relate better to our emotions
- Dr. Lucio Bizzini, MD, on how Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is used to treat depression
- Ursula Bates on how mindfulness supports terminally ill patients as they approach the end of their lives
Plus chapters from other innovators who apply meditation in health care and social work: Dr. Edel Maex, MD, Dr. Cathy Blanc, MD, Rosamund Oliver, and Dr. Frederic Rosenfeld, MD.

Author description

ANDREW FRASER is a London-based writer and editor with a specialist interest in meditation and Buddhism. After graduating from Cambridge University, he trained as a journalist and worked for the BBC, covering major sporting events, including the 2012 Olympic Games. He has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism since 2002, and he regularly attends retreats at Lerab Ling in France. A prolific writer, Andrew is also the editor of "View, The Rigpa Journal," an annual magazine on meditation and Tibetan Buddhism, which was founded in 2007.