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		<title>Dr Ramesh Manocha investigates meditation as a stress management invervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Ramesh Manocha recently had a paper published titled &#8220;Using meditation for less stress and better wellbeing; A seminar for GPs&#8221;. The paper detailed a study in which 293 doctors were taught meditation in order to reduce stress and increase wellbeing. The abstract and full paper can be found here.

Using meditation for less stress
and better wellbeing
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		<title>Mental silence as a taxonomy of meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental silence and its associated yogic philosophy may provide a basis for taxonomy of meditation that is practically useful in the delivery of healthcare. An intervention with a specific effect such as Sahaja Yoga meditation has a wide range of applications in medicine, psychology and neuroscience. It is particularly relevant to the growing field of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compliance with treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any other evaluation of therapeutics, the detectable effect of the intervention will be determined by the degree to which the participant complies with the treatment. This is particularly important in meditation research because meditation requires considerable active involvement and commitment. There are several ways to assess compliance, including attendance rates at supervised treatment sessions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The literature on meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An extensive search of the scientific literature identified 3,500 peer-reviewed publications that featured “meditation” as a key word. Yet, of these, only 135 (approximately 4%) fulfilled the very basic requirements of experimental evaluation, i.e. they were prospective trials using control groups and random allocation. Importantly, even within this subset of more rigorous studies, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 groups of meditation techniques</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my systematic analysis of meditation studies, because of the relatively small number of studies available for analysis, the many different meditation techniques were grouped into 5 thematically related categories. These were:

Relaxation      Response and studies describing the intervention as based on it.
The MBSR and studies describing the intervention as based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies to assess physiological effects of meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With regard to the physiology of meditation, research designs can be divided into 3 categories:
1) Case studies of meditation featuring small numbers of participants in which there is no attempt to control for confounding variables. While these are useful for generating hypotheses, they do not provide scientifically valid insights into meditation’s purportedly unique effects.
2) Own-control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation vs. psychotherapy to reduce anxiety</title>
		<link>http://www.researchingmeditation.org/blog/meditation-vs-psychotherapy-to-reduce-anxiety.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The effects of meditation on anxiety and stress are comparable to effect sizes described in conventional meta-analyses of psychotherapy field studies. For example Mattick’s (1990) review of psychotherapy for neurotic patients reported a mean effect size of 0.74 for verbal psychotherapy and 0.97 for behavioural psychotherapy vis-a-vis a mean effect size of 0.55 for placebo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graph: meditation studies published per year in MEDLINE</title>
		<link>http://www.researchingmeditation.org/blog/graph-meditation-studies-published-per-year-in-medline.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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This graph shows the number of meditation studies considered as serious explorations of meditation’s effects published per year in the MEDLINE database.
The maximum yearly output was in 2000–2001 when 12 RCTs were reported in MEDLINE. In the same time period 106 RCTs for fluoxetine, as an example of a mainstream medication, and 98 RCTs for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahaja Yoga meditation as a treatment for hot flushes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sahaja Yoga meditation (SYM) may be helpful in mitigating the experience of hot flushes (HFs) in menopause via a number of possible pathways. First, like many other forms of meditation, SYM has been shown to reduce arousal in laboratory experiments. An interesting study on stress-induced HFs however, suggests that simple reduction of arousal may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahaja Yoga meditation and physical health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Ramesh Manocha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The observed relationship between Sahaja Yoga meditation (SYM) practices and mental health are not similarly as strong for measures of physical health. In many ways this might be expected since the intervention is primarily focused on a mental experience with the specific aim of reducing negative affect, thinking patterns and related behaviours. Mood, thoughts and [...]]]></description>
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