Can Meditation Heal?
Healing as wholeness is a grand theme that includes the spiritual aspect of meditation. I’ll take it up in a later post. In this article, I’ll narrow my question to how medical or mental illness responds to meditation. One of the researchers who have looked deeply at healing and meditation is Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, the Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School,. Kabat-Zinn has published many papers on the benefits of meditation. His book on using meditation for chronic pain conditions is called Full Catastrophe Living. It’s a fantastic book! I’ve lent my copy to so many suffers over time that it’s finally wandered off to live on someone else’s book shelf.
