The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue With the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Med...
ISBN: 9781572249684 | 1572249684
Format: HardcoverPublisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc
Pub. Date: 1/2/2012
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In Washington, DC, the Dalai Lama met with Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, Richard Davidson, and other leading meditation researchers to explore the intersection between ancient meditation techniques and modern neuroscience. The result is a fascinating and revealing conversation about the potential of the human mind to heal itself through mindfulness meditation, transcribed and presented to the public for the first time in The Mind#xED;s Own Physician.
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Confluence of Streams and a Flowering of Possibilities | |
| Meditation-Based Clinical Interventions: Science, Practice, and Implementation | p. 21 |
| How Buddhist Meditative Practices Can Inform Our Understanding of Pain and Suffering, the Potential for Healing, the Relief of Suffering, and the Underlying Nature of the Human Mind and Body | p. 27 |
| Some Clinical Applications of Mindfulness Meditation in Medicine and Psychiat... MORE | p. 35 |
| Mind-Brain-Body Interaction and Meditation | p. 47 |
| Session 1 Dialogue | p. 55 |
| Possible Biological Substrates of Meditation | p. 65 |
| Synchronization of Brain Rhythms as a Possible Mechanism for the Unification of Distributed Mental Processes | p. 66 |
| The Neurobiology of the Adaptive and Deleterious Features of Stress | p. 76 |
| Session 2 Dialogue | p. 81 |
| Clinical Research 1: Meditation and Mental Health | p. 99 |
| Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression | p. 102 |
| Paths to Recovery: Neural Substrates of Cognitive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Depression | p. 110 |
| Session 3 Dialogue | p. 117 |
| Interlude Preceding Session 4 | p. 135 |
| The Buddhist Science of Human Flourishing | p. 136 |
| Interlude Dialogue | p. 144 |
| Clinical Research 2: Meditation and Physical Health | p. 151 |
| Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease | p. 152 |
| Neural-Immune Interaction | p. 155 |
| Session 4 Dialogue | p. 159 |
| Integration and Final Reflections | p. 173 |
| Meditation and the Future of Health Care | p. 178 |
| Some Reflections on the Evolution and Nature of Mind and Self and Their Implications for Humanity | p. 185 |
| Session 5 Dialogue | p. 192 |
| Epilogue | p. 207 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 223 |
| Notes | p. 225 |
| Contributors | p. 239 |
| About the Mind and Life Institute | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 259 |
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Edited by world-renowned researchers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson, this book presents this remarkably dynamic interchange along with intriguing research findings that shed light on the nature of the mind, its capacity to refine itself through training, and its role in physical and emotional health.
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