Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Benefits of Prenatal Meditation on Maternal Health, Fetal Health and Infant Health
(Ka Po Chan, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China)
Chapter 2. The Degeneration of Contemporary Mindfulness: Re-Asserting the Ethical and Educational Foundations of Practice in Mindfulness-Based Interventions
(Terry Hyland, Free University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland)
Chapter 3. The Business of Meditation and the Expectation of “Results”: Kundalini Rising in a Culture of Instant Gratification
(Melanie Saraswati Takahashi, Integral Yoga Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Chapter 4. A Comparison of Mindfulness Meditation and Tai Chi/Qi Gong in the Moderation of Cancer Pain in Adults
(Carol A. Rizer, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA)
Chapter 5. Concentrative Meditation as a First Step of Mindfulness: The Effects on Worry, Dispositional Mindfulness, Decentering, and Attention
(Keisuke Tanaka, Joetsu University of Education, Yoshinori Sugiura, Hiroshima University, Japan)
Chapter 6. Cognitive Decentering and Eating Disorder Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Thinking Errors
(Tomoko Sugiura and Yoshinori Sugiura, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, and others)
Chapter 7. Exploring the Relative Contributions of Self and Mindfulness Differentiation for Predicting Burnout
(Thomas V. Frederick, Scott Dunbar, Susan Purrington, Sarah Y. Fisher, and Richard Ardito, California Baptist University – Online and Professional Studies)
Index