The TIMES
London, UK. Nov. 15, 1994
"Eastern Meditation is helping America's chronically sick"
"Peter was in hospital for the first time in his life: the chest pains that had taken him there had been diagnosed as a heart attack. Instead of going back home as he expected, he found himself languishing in the coronary care ward.
"It seemed the final straw. even before this his job had been on the line and his marriage on the rocks. Now his mind was a turmoil of fear and regrets. He could concentrate on nothing and his mind spun like a top.
"Though he had started an exercise program under the physiotherapist's supervision, he still could not stop his thoughts from racing and he often built himself up to a full panic, which brought on palpitations and even greater anxiety.
"At the University of Massachusetts Hospital and Medical School, people like Peter can learn to build up mental fitness as well as physical stamina after major illness in the heart of this temple of high tech medicine. Professor John Kabat-Zinn's Stress Reduction Clinic teaches patients how to help their own recovery through ancient meditation practices which he has adapted for use in modern medicine.
"Anxiety and depression
have been halved"
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