On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Buck wrote:
Like, even some local main-street churches have offered folks "centering" prayer now. Times change. Even our local Methodists are offering classes. Rocks are melting? There's been a local bastion falling. The Lutherans next?
The University of Wisconsin, who are responsible for much of the most cutting edge science on meditation, lists centering prayer, which in it's current incarnation is more like insight meditation, as one of it's recommendations. This is now trickling down to younger physicians and interested older docs. So eventually many, many patients will have the opportunity to learn meditation. It's hard to find a hospital in the US that doesn't have a Mindfulness class, a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction course or offer Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.
