"Delphine Rochet you interviewed for Dr. Frederick Rosenfeld, a psychiatrist at the Medical Clinic Lyons Light and author of meditate is to heal.

degree in neuroscience and behavioral and cognitive therapies, He combines his skills as a researcher to his experience with his patients.

He has extensive experience in clinical applications of meditation and has played a role important in disseminating these applications in France, notably with the publication of his book meditate is to heal.

He practiced for several years Vipassana, Zen and tai chi.

DR: In short, how would you define the practice of mindfulness meditation?

FR: Mindfulness is a therapeutic initially defined by Jon Kabat-Zinn as a way of paying attention to things in three modes: intentional, in the moment and non-judgmental about things.

  • Intentional, in the sense that this exercise requires an effort of concentration: it is not a solitary reverie is an active exercise.
  • In the present, that is to say, trying to accommodate what comes moment by moment, without trying to escape the negative elements and without greed or attempt to retain the pleasant things in themselves.
  • And without trial, that is to say, accepting what comes to awareness moment by moment, without being tense about what is pleasant or sweet, and without trying to avoid what is painful.

DR: For which diseases do you think is it useful and why?

FR: First, it was invented to stress: The MBSR and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is a technique for reducing the physical and psychological stress.

Then there were indications of a much broader and studies have shown that it was effective for plant diseases.

The Mindfulness is particularly effective for conditions such as hypertension, psoriasis, management of physical pain, tinnitus (ringing ear). It was also demonstrated that this technique enhances immunity because the white blood cells become more effective in defending the body. In sports, meditation can increase athletic performance.

But it is also effective as a method of support for patients suffering from diseases like cancer and AIDS, because meditation can be a significant help to manage stress in illness or purpose of life.

Meditation has also been used in schools, prisons and businesses to manage stress and improve performance among students.

DR: I heard that some studies have highlighted the positive effects of meditation for bipolar disorder?

FR: Several U.S. studies have shown that the MBSR alters brain functioning in the area involved in emotions. On bipolar disorder in particular, studies are underway for these conditions, seeking to show how Mindfulness can help manage the turns of mood.

DR: And for the Depression?

FR: There is a therapy that is a combination of Mindfulness with CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy). This technique is called MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy), founded in 1994 and works for depression.

This therapy is not going to be interesting for people who are in depression, but will be useful for those who got out and who will not relapse. Specifically, MBCT is effective for people who have taken at least three depressions in their lives, as it helps to stabilize their well-being, and it may be a way if they wish and in agreement with their doctor to stop the medication.

DR: So what's the difference between the MBSR and MBCT?

EN: The MBCT inserts specific CBT techniques that are not in compliance as MBSR pure thoughts, solving techniques and self-management problems. In addition, MBCT specifically addresses the prevention of depression.

For some groups, we teach techniques. It asks, for example the question: How to take care of me better? And we teach patients to find solutions, strategies to overcome their difficulties.

DR: Why Mindfulness comes so easily to so many different treatments?

FR: All these conditions were probably a common factor in the psychological and biological stress, nervous tension. By playing on this factor, we can have a Action on multifocal disease and stress in a very broad sense.

other hand, there is a demand from the public heal more naturally. Indeed, on a more philosophical level, we realize that the body and mind are not separated.

As one of my teachers, Dr Jean Cottraux "thoughts and emotions are two sides of one sheet of paper."

Finally, this method provides scientific evidence of its effectiveness and can be heard by the medical world. It is now clear that by acting on the psyche, it has an efficacy on pain and it is a success factor.

DR: What you brought this practice into your life?

FR: Say It makes me happy to realize that there is a technique that combines the body and mind, and that can help people get better. I am happy because this is a sharing, a communion, an exchange between a medical and scientific side of a part, and that of consciousness, the psyche of the other.

The dialogue between these two areas is successful because it gives birth Ultimately, a healing technique that works! It is certainly a first step towards other care tools that will come in the future.

But this technique also makes me happy because she did not ask to prescribe drugs and, to some extent, the patient becomes his own therapist. He asks her healer within!

meditate is to heal Fred Rosenfeld editions Arenas

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Delphanne "

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