I don’t think you do Jon Kabat-Zinn justice in your introduction of what Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is. Before Jon Kabat-Zinn there was little science on the effects of meditation. That’s largely because Buddhistic teachings of meditation is not standardized in a way about a timeframe of months that makes it easy to run tests.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor at the University of Massachusetts and wanted to investigate the effects of meditation with the tools of science. To do that he created a standardized secular two months course under the title “Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction” that can be taught in a structured way that’s presumably have the similar effects each time.
This allowed him to run studies and also get other people to run studies with the methology he created. Afterwards his courses spread because he actually could label them science-based.
I don’t think you do Jon Kabat-Zinn justice in your introduction of what Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is. Before Jon Kabat-Zinn there was little science on the effects of meditation. That’s largely because Buddhistic teachings of meditation is not standardized in a way about a timeframe of months that makes it easy to run tests.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor at the University of Massachusetts and wanted to investigate the effects of meditation with the tools of science. To do that he created a standardized secular two months course under the title “Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction” that can be taught in a structured way that’s presumably have the similar effects each time.
This allowed him to run studies and also get other people to run studies with the methology he created. Afterwards his courses spread because he actually could label them science-based.