Mar 14, 2009

Compassion meditation can act as a great stress buster


ေမတၱာကမဌာန္းဆုိတာ ၾကားဖူးရဲ့လား မုဒိမ္းေကာင္ မုိဟာမက္ တပည့္ေတြ? ဘယ္လုိလုပ္ၾကားဖူးမွာလဲ။ အျမဲတမ္း လူလူခ်င္း ဒုကၡေပးဖုိ႔နဲ႔ မေကာင္းၾကံဖုိ႔ပဲ စိတ္ထဲမွာ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနတာကုိး။ မုဒိမ္းေကာင္ မုိဟာမက္ဘာေတြ သင္ေပးထားလဲ ၾကည့္ပါလား။ လူေတြကုိ အခ်င္းခ်င္း သတ္ျဖတ္ဖုိ႔နဲ႔ လက္စားေခ်ဖုိ႔ပဲ သင္ေပးတယ္။ ဘာသာမတူတဲ့သူေတြကုိ ရန္သူလုိ သေဘာထားခုိင္းတယ္။ အမုံန္းေတြနဲ႔ ေဒါသေတြပဲ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနတယ္။ မင္းတုိ႔ စိတ္ေတြ မပင္ပန္းဘူးလားကြာ? လူအခ်င္းခ်င္းပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ တိရိစာၦန္ေလးေတြကုိပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ သနားက်င္နာစိတ္လုံး၀ မရွိဘူး။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ ဆိတ္လုိလုိ ေမ်ာက္လုိလုိ နဲ႔ က်က္သေရကလဲ အရမ္းကုိ တုံးေနျပီ။ ငါတုိ႔လဲ ေငါက္ရတာ ပင္ပန္းတယ္ကြာ။ မင္းတုိ႔ေတြ ယုတ္ညံ့တဲ့ မြတ္ဆလင္၀ါဒက ျမန္ျမန္ထြက္ၾကစမ္းပါ။

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Washington, Oct 8: Individuals who engage in compassion meditation may benefit by reductions in inflammatory and behavioral responses to psychological stress, a new study has found.

The study has been published online at www. sciencedirect. com and in the medical journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.

"While much attention has been paid to meditation practices that emphasize calming the mind, improving focused attention or developing mindfulness, less is known about meditation practices designed to specifically foster compassion," says Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD, who designed and taught the meditation program used in the study.

Negi is senior lecturer in the Department of Religion, the co-director of Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies and president and spiritual director of Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.

The study focused on the effect of compassion meditation on inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress, and evaluated the degree to which engagement in meditation practice influenced stress reactivity.

"Our findings suggest that meditation practices designed to foster compassion may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress and are relevant to disease," said Charles L. Raison, MD, clinical director of the Mind-Body Program, Emory University''s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine, and a lead author on the study.

Sixty-one healthy college students between the ages of 17 and19 participated in the study. Half the participants were randomized to receive six weeks of compassion meditation training and half were randomized to a health discussion control group.

Although secular in presentation, the compassion meditation program was based on a thousand-year-old Tibetan Buddhist mind-training practice called "lojong" in Tibetan.

Lojong practices utilize a cognitive, analytic approach to challenge an individual''s unexamined thoughts and emotions toward other people, with the long-term goal of developing altruistic emotions and behavior towards all people. Each meditation class session combined teaching, discussion and meditation practice.

The control group attended classes designed by study investigators on topics relevant to the mental and physical health of college students such as stress management, drug abuse and eating disorders.

In addition, a variety of student participation activities were employed such as mock debates and role-playing.

Both groups were required to participate in 12 hours of classes across the study period. Meditators were provided with a meditation compact disc for practice at home.

Homework for the control group was a weekly self-improvement paper.

After the study interventions were finished, the students participated in a laboratory stress test designed to investigate how the body''s inflammatory and neuroendocrine systems respond to psychosocial stress.

No differences were seen between students randomized to compassion meditation and the control group, but within the meditation group there was a strong relationship between the time spent practicing meditation and reductions in inflammation and emotional distress in response to the stressor.

Consistent with this, when the meditation group was divided into high and low practice groups, participants in the high practice group showed reductions in inflammation and distress in response to the stressor when compared to the low practice group and the control group. (ANI)

(ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္ ။ ။ မုဒိမ္းေကာင္ လူရမ္းကား ၀ါဒကုိ ေဒါသမထြက္ပါနဲ႔… ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ရလုိ႔လဲ ပီတိမျဖစ္ပါနဲ႔. . . ကုလားကုိလဲ လူမ်ဳိးေရး မႏွိပ္ကြပ္ပါနဲ႔ . . အဲဒါေတြက အက်ဳိးမရွိပါဘူး။ ယုတ္ညံ့သည့္ ၀ါဒဆုိးၾကီးကုိ ျဖဳိဖ်က္ေရးမွာ ခင္ဗ်ားကုိယ္တုိင္ အုတ္တစ္ခ်ပ္ သဲတစ္ပြင့္အျဖစ္ လုပ္ကုိင္ေရးက လက္ေတြ႔အက်ဆုံးျဖစ္ပါသည္ )

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