Question

Describe MBSR and how it attempted to bridge the gap between the Eastern Tradition of Mindfulness Practices such as Buddhist Meditation and Western Medicine and treatment.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn develops Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the 1970s. It is a healing approach that combines meditation and yoga. The main aim of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is to address the unconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors thought to increase stress and undermine your health.

Mindfulness is a practice involved in  religious and secular traditions like Hinduism and Buddhism to yoga, but now non-religious people also practice meditation.

In general, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction was popularized in the East because of religious and spiritual institutions. On the other hand, West's popularity can be traced to particular people and secular institutions. The secular tradition of mindfulness west has its roots in Eastern religions and traditions.

Most modern Western practitioners and teachers learned about mindfulness in the Buddhist and Hindu tradition.