Meditation and the psychotherapist.
While meditation derives from religious traditions, it is a behavior accessible to investigation. Recent physiological and behavioral studies are surveyed, and meditation behavior is described. Greater awareness of fellings, enhanced interpersonal perception, and increased present-centeredness are behaviors transferred from meditation, and facilitative both to the psychotherapist and to interpersonal functioning.
D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003071:Cognition; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009228:Mysticism; D011187:Posture; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012063:Relaxation; D012938:Social Perception; D013850:Thinking; D013997:Time Factors