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Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness 5/2018

03-08-2018 | ORTHOGONAL ROTATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS

A Study in Healing and the Mind

Auteur: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 5/2018

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Picture this: A person with the skin disease psoriasis, standing practically naked in a cylindrical lightbox lined with vertical eight-foot-long ultraviolet lightbulbs that form a complete enclosure. Her eyes are shielded by dark goggles to protect the corneas from UV damage, plus she is wearing a pillowcase over her head to protect her face. (Her nipples are also shielded, as are the genitals in men.) Fans whir, circulating stale basement-office air in the bowels of the medical center. When the lights come on, bathing not just the lightbox and the patient inside it, but, because the top is open, the entire room with an eerie violet glow, their intensity is ferocious, irradiating every surface of the body that is exposed with specifically chosen and particularly potent wavelengths of ultraviolet light. …
vorige artikel Mindfulness and Nature
volgende artikel A Study in Happiness—Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System
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Kabat-Zinn, J., Wheeler, E., Light, T., Skillings, A., Scharf, M., Cropley, T.G., Hosmer, D., and Bernhard, J. “Influence of a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention on rates of skin clearing in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis undergoing phototherapy (UVB) and photochemotherapy (PUVA).” Psychosomatic Medicine 60 (1998): 625–632.
 
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See for example: Zeidan, F. et al. (2010) Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training. Consciousness and Cognition 19: 597–605.
 
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Rosenkranz, M.A., Davidson, R.J., MacCoon, D.C., Sheridan, J.F., Kalin, N.H. and Lutz, A. A comparision of mindfulness-based stress reduction and an active control in modulation of neurogenic inflammation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 27 (2013) 174-184.
 
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Rosenkranz, M.A., Lutz, A., Perlman, D.M., Bachhuber, D.R.W., Schuyler, B.S. MacCoon, D.G., and Davidson, R.J. Reduced stress and inflammatory responsiveness in experienced meditators compared to a matched healthy control group. Psychoneuoendocrinology 68 (2016) 117-125.
 
Metagegevens
Titel
A Study in Healing and the Mind
Auteur
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Publicatiedatum
03-08-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Mindfulness / Uitgave 5/2018
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-018-0997-x

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