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The psychology of meditation research and practice edited by michael a west provides a valuable exploration of the topic of meditation and mindfulness which have become hugely popular in recent years. Meditation can help you release these painful emotional burdens quite often transforming your life in miraculous ways meditation offers you the ultimate mind body release when examining the psychology of meditation one must not forget that meditation allows you to let go and go with the flow. The psychology of meditation research and practice explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness and presents accounts of the cognitive and emotional processes elicited during meditation practice written by researchers and practitioners with considerable experience in meditation practice and from different religious or philosophical . The science of meditation meditation may help squash anxiety the practice brings about dramatic effects in as little as a 10 minute session by cary barbor published may 1 2001 last reviewed . Meditation is becoming a daily practice for more and more people and is used by clinical psychologists counsellors and therapists to heal themselves and their clients this book provides a psychological appraisal of meditation summarizing fifteen years of psychological research in the area signposting new research and theoretical directions