Along with the practice’s increasing popularity comes a wave of concerns and criticisms regarding the practice of mindfulness itself, such as the facts that mindfulness can trigger mania, hallucinations or feelings of panic and increasing anxiety (Grossman P. et al., 2003). However, a meta-analysis on a decade worth of findings was used as an approach to reviewing sixty-four studies (done before the year of 2002) of which only twenty met the analysis’ criteria. Some of the reasons for the excluded studies include unrelevant population assessed, insufficient information regarding the intervention and poor quantitative health interpretation of the data - all of which lead to unjustifiable . Each of the twenty carefully examined studies proved the efficacy of MBSR as an additional treatment for chronic pain patients specifically (Grossman P. et al.,
Along with the practice’s increasing popularity comes a wave of concerns and criticisms regarding the practice of mindfulness itself, such as the facts that mindfulness can trigger mania, hallucinations or feelings of panic and increasing anxiety (Grossman P. et al., 2003). However, a meta-analysis on a decade worth of findings was used as an approach to reviewing sixty-four studies (done before the year of 2002) of which only twenty met the analysis’ criteria. Some of the reasons for the excluded studies include unrelevant population assessed, insufficient information regarding the intervention and poor quantitative health interpretation of the data - all of which lead to unjustifiable . Each of the twenty carefully examined studies proved the efficacy of MBSR as an additional treatment for chronic pain patients specifically (Grossman P. et al.,