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Brief Meditation Training Provides Long-Term Benefit To Fibromyalgia Sufferers
By Dr. James Chappell of www.jameschappell.com
The health benefits of meditation are becoming clearly established as more scientific research is conducted. A good case in point is a study published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2007 in which a group of fibromyalgia sufferers were given an 8-week training in mindfulness meditation and then studied to see how their pain, anxiety, depression, coping, and other general measures of Quality of Life compared with those of patients who did not receive the training. The patients who received the mindfulness intervention were found to have significantly better scores across the board compared with the control group. Even more impressive – in a follow up evaluation 3 years later, the comparative improvement was still present. It appears that even a short exposure to meditative techniques can have long term impact on clinical measures of pain and Quality of Life. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) was developed at U. MASS by Jon Kabat -Zinn and is being extensively validated in North America and Europe. The book “Full Catastrophe Living” by Kabat-Zinn describes in detail the techniques and training procedures that are used. It is encouraging that a simple, inexpensive, self-help intervention can be so effective.
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