A Buddhist-based meditation practice for care and healing: An introduction and its application

作者：Oshita Daien; Hattori Koji; Iwakuma Miho^*

来源：International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2013, 19: 15-23.

DOI：10.1111/ijn.12040

• meditation
• Buddhism
• &quot
• dependent arising'
• efficacy of meditation
• spirituality

This paper outlines Buddhist-based meditation in terms of its spiritual, psychotherapeutic, physiological and neuroscientific perspectives. In the latter part of this paper, a pilot study is discussed, in which Japanese university students volunteered to practice meditation at home and complete questionnaires. T-tests were performed to compare with the non-meditated control group. Although only a small number in the experimental group completed the study, our analyses demonstrated that students benefited from meditation and showed significant increases in their sense of coherence, self-esteem and purpose in life. Lastly, practical implications of meditation in contemporary Japanese society are discussed.

• 出版日期2013-4