Studies confirm, Singer contends that mindfulness meditation proves effective to help a person manage his/her pain, as well as reduce stress. Even children can reportedly learn to use mindfulness meditation. Jon Kabat-Zinn, director of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's relaxation program, describes mindfulness meditation:

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We feel more alive. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Many forms of meditation exist, but they all share the intentional training of a person's attention and concentration. Different forms of meditation have different objects of attention. For example, some forms teach a person to focus attention on a silently repeated mantra, sound, visual image or object, or phrase or question. In mindfulness meditation the individual deliberately maintains a focused attention on the breath as a way to cultivate concentration (Kabat-Zinn, Massion, Hebert, & Rosenbaum, 1998). Consistent daily practice promotes the development of stability, inner calmness, and non-reactivity of the mind. In turn, this allows one to face, and even embrace, all aspects of daily life regardless of pain, anxiety, or fear. The stability and nonreactivity supports one's ability to become a compassionate observer of self as well as others. (Kabat-Zinn, as citend in Singer, 2006, Mindfulness Meditation section, ¶ 1-2)

2.3: Copd Patients' Funcitonal Mobility Challenges

2.4: Support For Mindfulness Meditation's Benefits

CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

3.1: Study Components

3.2: Data Used

3.3: Methods and Techniques

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