Meditation training and measures of meditation state / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

In recent decades,the research on meditation training has developed rapidly.How to establish the evaluation index of the meditation training and meditation state becomes the concern of researchers.To date,the traditional evaluation methods mainly based on the meditation practice time,self-reported meditation scores and the improvement of symptoms or ability.The direct evaluation methods uses the reporting method or the detecting method to evaluate the meditation state.In the future,researchers can develop the kinesthetic and auditory tasks,and establish multi-modal monitoring indicators based on the meditation breath counting task.Electroencephalograph and other biofeedback indicators could be also combined with it.Furthermore,the Chinese localization evaluation standard need to be established.