Meditation is a very ancient practice. We have been meditating for more than two thousand five hundred years, in the East as in the West. Today, she knows a craze which is due to several factors: we have secular methods of meditation (no need to embrace this or that religion to practice it), easy access (you can get started in about eight weeks, without it being a cheap approach) and the benefits of which have been confirmed by numerous scientific studies. To these three characteristics - secularism, ease and scientific validation - is added the fact that meditation helps us resist the great psychic pollution of our time: materialism, consumerism, digital dispersion. By allowing us to refocus on the essentials, meditation deserves its name of training the mind. HOW I CAME TO MEDITATION I am a psychiatrist, specialist in emotional disorders, that is to say diseases related to stress, anxiety, depression. I first turned to their treatment, by drugs, and, above all, by cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBT), which consist in associating concrete situations in discussions with the therapist. Then I gradually became interested in the prevention of their relapses, because in these emotional disorders, recurrences are, unfortunately, very frequent: patients must learn to regulate their emotions throughout their existence, that is to say to introduce lasting lifestyle changes, new habits and new ways of living into their daily lives.
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