The Stages of Insight: Clinical Relevance for Mindfulness-Based Interventions
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Not all experiences of meditation are or should be expected to be pleasant.
“We can thank Andrea Grabovac for pointing out that not all experiences of meditation are or should be expected to be pleasant (Grabovac 2015).”
From Terms Of Engagement: Text, Technique And Experience In Scholarship On Theravada Meditation (2019) · cites this paper as Grabovac 2015
Until recently, only a few overview and opinion papers on the potential types of distress associated with meditation in clinical research and practice have been published.
“Until recently, only a few overview and opinion papers [71–76] on the potential types of distress associated with meditation in the context of clinical research and practice have been published.”
From Unpleasant meditation-related experiences in regular meditators: Prevalence, predictors, and conceptual considerations (2019) · cites this paper as [74]
In the Buddhist Vipassana tradition, stages of insight development can involve negative experiences such as fear, dissolution, and disgust, which may have potential clinical effects.
“Furthermore, it is recognized that in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition there are stages of development of insight or knowledge, some of which involve negative experiences such as fear, sense of dissolution, disgust, which may result in potential clinical effects (69).”
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- Authors
- Grabovac, A.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Grabovac, Andrea
- ORCID
- Grabovac, Andrea
- Venue
- Mindfulness
- Published
- 2014-04-26
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 589-600
- ISSN
- 1868-8527 (ISSN-L)
- 1868-8535
- OpenAlex
- W2080188958
- Cited by
- 54
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 3.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Mindfulness (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based interventions, Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist psychology, clinician competence, informed consent
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