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How do you discuss the mechanism and potential benefits of meditation with your patients?

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Psychiatry · Saint Joseph Hospital Affiliated Physicians

What is the benefit of meditation practice?

Thoughts and emotions are molecules interacting in a chemical solution called the human body. We cannot change a molecule that is already here, but when we change the chemical solution in which molecules of thought and emotion are arising, interacting, and...

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Psychiatry · Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV

I modify the discussion based on the background and interests of the patient. So, if a patient is already doing such things as yoga, then I may just describe meditative practice as coming from that tradition as an add-on to their existing belief system. But for those who want more of a science-based...

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