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Professor M W Gunathunga
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Why meditation
Types of meditation
Assessing the effect of meditation
The mind and how it works
Vipassana meditation and Noble research
Meta-cognitive psycho analysis
Clinical application of meditation
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Health is complete physical mental and social
well being (WHO).
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Meditation is a key to complete mental health
Which meditation?
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Meditation is a practice of concentrated
focus upon a sound, object, visualization, the
breath, movement, or attention itself in order
to increase awareness of the present
moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation,
and enhance personal and spiritual growth.
http://medical- dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/meditation
exercising the mind in religious
contemplation (Thompson 1995).
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Concentration meditation
Insight meditation
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Insight meditation
Vipassana meditation
Mindfulness meditation
Introduced as part of the Buddhist Eightfold
Path
includes several meditation methods
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Change occurs in the mind initially
Behaviour change occurs simultaneously or
later
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Assessing the effect of meditation
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Source of image: www
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Physiologists are still unaware of the neural
mechanism of thoughts and know little about
the mechanism of memory
(Gyton & Hall 2006p.723),
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Attempts of studying functional neural
correlates of mindfulness meditation (Chiesa
et al, 2010) without much success.
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The modern science fails to understand the
important link that connects the external
world with the mind and consciousness.
Form
Sounds
Smells
Tastes
touch
Eye
Ear
Nose
Tongue
body
CNS
Mind
consciousness
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It is the mind that decides not the brain
Then,
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where is the mind?
How can one observe the mind?
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Vipassana Meditation has the answer.
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a system of observing the mind,
to watch its own behavior while letting go
one’s attachments.
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A form of sitting meditation
A significant component of the Noble
Eightfold Path
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Most meditation methods improve
concentration
VM, in addition to all those can develop few
other special skills.
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Body
External
environment
mind
Consciousness
Memory
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Body
Mind
Consciousness
Feeling
Perceiving
Attachment
willing
Conflict
Gunathunga 2010
Body
Mind
Feeling
Perceiving
consciousness
Attachment
willing
Conflict
Why stress occurs and
Experiencing total freedom from stress
Experiencing total freedom from physical
pains as well
Understanding the interplay between the
body, mind and consciousness
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Method is VM
It is, in fact, a noble research
Source: www
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Research
Observational
Experimental
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Research
Noble Research
Non-noble
Research
Observational
Experimental
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An observational method
Observation within the mind
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Source: www
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Body
Mind
consciousness
Attachment
Accept / Reject
Conflict
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Results of NR
Whereabouts of mind
Reason for its travel
Experiencing travel free moments
Knowing the process of achieving this
freedom
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Results of NR
Freedom from mental stress
Meaning based coping
Freedom from prejudices, preoccupation
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With all modern principles of education
Objectives
Method
Monitoring
Evaluation
Reflective practice
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Introducing
Meta-cognitive psycho
analysis -MCPA
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The branch of health that interprets
symptoms and signs of an illness as an
interplay
between
body,
mind
and
consciousness
offering
a
variety
of
psychosomatic therapies by a person who is
licensed to treat people and trained in metacognitive health care
(Gunathunga 2010)
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A unique skill to medical practitioners of
diagnosing and treating psychological,
somatic, psycho-somatic and lifestyle
problems.
(Gunathunga et al 2011)
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The skill is the psychological advancement
of the practitioner in assessing and redefining the problem of the client in
relation to body mind and consciousness.
This leads to a diagnosis at the level of
mind and consciousness of the clients
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Needs
commitment
Ready to meditate ..
Acting without prejudice
Without being affected
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Without prejudices
separate from consciousness
impossible to explain it sufficiently to one who has not tried VM
Body
Mind
consciousness
Feeling
Perceiving
Attachment
willing
Conflict
Gunathunga 2010
A trained MCPA practitioner can see socio
behavioural problems and the determinants
of such problems without bias and prejudice.
compassionate and unbiased stance
MCPA is fundamentally different from
Freudian psycho analysis
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F. psychoanalysis
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inherited
constitution of
personality and
events in early
childhood;
human behavior,
experience, and
cognition are largely
determined by
irrational drives;
those drives are
largely unconscious
MCPA
Inheritance from
previous life and
events since
conception
By the nature of the
mind, by the nature
of attachment or
aversion
Do
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MCPA
F psychoanalysis
conflicts between
conscious and
unconscious material
can result in mental
disturbances
Relief achieved
through bringing
this material into
the conscious mind
Due to pop up
thoughts
By letting go using
VM
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possibility of resolving a group of biopsycho-social problems that does not fall
into any major clinical discipline. Such as..
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Problems in work
place
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Making mistake
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Issues related to school performance
Marital disharmonies
Personality issues
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Clinical application of meditation
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promising application possibilities in many
new disciplines such as.
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Helps diabetes, hyper-cholesterolaemia and
obesity to various degrees.
Source: www
management of chronic pain such as in
rheumatoid arthritis
(Gunathunga et al 2010).,
reducing resistance to lifestyle modification
hypertension and other non-communicable
diseases.
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improve glucose tolerance in diabetic patients
(Yee and Dissanayake 1980)
improve cardiovascular parameters
(Chuan-Yi Liu et al 2009).
improving the psychological condition of
cancer patients (Harrison 2012).
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Shedding light on end of life decisions
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euthanasia,
do not resuscitate decisions (DNR),
removing life support in terminally ill patients
and …
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removing organs for transplant.
“I am still alive and leave me alone”
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anger management,
improving concentration and tolerance
Improving productivity
driving skills
interpersonal skills
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Why meditation
Types of meditation
Assessing the effect of meditation
The mind and how it works
Vipassana meditation and Noble research
Meta-cognitive psycho analysis
Clinical application of meditation
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Thank you
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