The meanings of the study are as follows.
First, this study is meaningful as it improved compassion, psychological well-being, empathic ability and quality of sleep of middle aged women through the Four Immeasurables meditation program.
Second, this s...
The meanings of the study are as follows.
First, this study is meaningful as it improved compassion, psychological well-being, empathic ability and quality of sleep of middle aged women through the Four Immeasurables meditation program.
Second, this study is meaningful as it made statistical and qualitative study on the effects that could be proved, out of the 11 effects of the Four Immeasurables that Buddha earlier said.
Third, The Four Immeasurables meditation is a virtue that has traditionally been practiced in Buddhism, and even modern psychology pays attention to.
But up to now it tended to bias primarily to loving-kindness, and compassion. This study is meaningful in that it dealt with the Four Immeasurables as a whole in a meditation program.
This study was limited to middle-aged women so further studies shall follow including more participants from various classes. Particularly, intermediate test seems to be necessary because of the nature of the Four Immeasurables meditation. Additionally, for effective verification of the Four Immeasurables meditation on sleep, sleep disorder clinical researches shall be followed.