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KMID : 0897520160210020016
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2016 Volume.21 No. 2 p.16 ~ p.25
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Mindfulness Meditation, is it a Treatment or Religious Practice?
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Shin Kyung-Chul
Park E-Jin
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Abstract
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Oriental Meditation in the 20th century was introduced to the West in the form of Transcendental meditation by Maharishi Mahesh and Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It has been proved to be effective in the treatment of physical illness and mental disorders, and the use of meditation in the field of therapy has been expanded. In Korea, however, there are many prejudices about meditation rather than western, which makes meditation an obstacle to its use in therapy. In this paper, we tried to investigate the similarity and difference between meditation as therapeutic purpose and meditation as religious practice. Mindfulness means awareness of everything that happens here and now. In mindfulness meditation, the view of life is changed and the healing is achieved through growth that breaks the attachment to thoughts and desires. Therefore, meditation practice in MBSR is hardly regarded as completely separate from the religious practice of meditation. They differ in the explicitness of the goal to enter into nirvana and the fierceness of practice in the goal of nirvana. Patients suffering from the disease and those facing various stresses can learn, grow and MBSR has enough meaning just to have the health of life through awareness. Those who need to achieve psychological stability or developmental tasks should not only solve all problems through mindfulness meditation but also intervene with psychological treatment according to their psychological characteristics.
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KEYWORD
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Mindfulness, Meditation, MBSR, Vipassana
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