title: A Buddhist-based meditation practice for care and healing: an introduction and its application.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Daien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oshita
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.forename: Miho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwakuma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002016:Buddhism; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D019122:Meditation; D029181:Spirituality; D055815:Young Adult