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Article: Mindfulness Meditation and Chronic Pain.
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- Alternative Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Mindfulness Meditation and Chronic Pain
By Yoon-Hang Kim, MD, MPH
Meditation can be defined as the intentional self-regulation of present awareness. There are two major classes of meditation practice: concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation..sup.1 Concentration meditations, the most widely known and studied of which is transcendental meditation, focus the attention to a single aspect such as breathing, a visual object, or a sound and holding the attention for extended periods. Mindfulness meditation emphasizes the detached observation of oneself engaged in a practice such as breathing. In contrast to concentration meditation, the mindfulness ...