The Pros and Cons of Mindfulness Meditation

The promise of mindfulness meditation is that it can help patients endure flash floods of emotion during the therapeutic process, and ultimately alter reactions to daily experience at a level that words cannot reach. Dr Cabot Zinn taught the practice to people suffering from chronic pain at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1980s. Two hour courses given once a week for eight weeks reduce chronic pain more effectively than treatment as usual.