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Wed, Oct 8 02:05 PM
Washington, Oct 8 (ANI): Individuals who engage in compassion meditation may
benefit by reductions in inflammatory and behavioral responses to
psychological stress, a new study has found.
The study has been published online at www.sciencedirect.com and in the
medical journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
"While much attention has been paid to meditation practices that emphasize
calming the mind, improving focused attention or developing mindfulness,
less is known about meditation practices designed to specifically foster
compassion," says Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD, who designed and taught
the meditation program used in the study.
Negi is senior lecturer in the Department of Religion, the co-director of
Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies and president and spiritual
director of Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.
The study focused on the effect of compassion meditation on inflammatory,
neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress, and
evaluated the degree to which engagement in meditation practice influenced
stress reactivity.
"Our findings suggest that meditation practices designed to foster
compassion may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress
and are relevant to disease," said Charles L. Raison, MD, clinical director
of the Mind-Body Program, Emory University's Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine, and a lead author on the
study.
Sixty-one healthy college students between the ages of 17 and19 participated
in the study. Half the participants were randomized to receive six weeks of
compassion meditation training and half were randomized to a health
discussion control group.
Although secular in presentation, the compassion meditation program was
based on a thousand-year-old Tibetan Buddhist mind-training practice called
"lojong" in Tibetan. Lojong practices utilize a cognitive, analytic approach
to challenge an individual's unexamined thoughts and emotions toward other
people, with the long-term goal of developing altruistic emotions and
behavior towards all people. Each meditation class session combined
teaching, discussion and meditation practice.
The control group attended classes designed by study investigators on topics
relevant to the mental and physical health of college students such as
stress management, drug abuse and eating disorders.
In addition, a variety of student participation activities were employed
such as mock debates and role-playing.
Both groups were required to participate in 12 hours of classes across the
study period. Meditators were provided with a meditation compact disc for
practice at home. Homework for the control group was a weekly
self-improvement paper.
After the study interventions were finished, the students participated in a
laboratory stress test designed to investigate how the body's inflammatory
and neuroendocrine systems respond to psychosocial stress.
No differences were seen between students randomized to compassion
meditation and the control group, but within the meditation group there was
a strong relationship between the time spent practicing meditation and
reductions in inflammation and emotional distress in response to the
stressor.
Consistent with this, when the meditation group was divided into high and
low practice groups, participants in the high practice group showed
reductions in inflammation and distress in response to the stressor when
compared to the low practice group and the control group. (ANI)
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