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Meditation has been a spiritual and healing practice in some parts of the world for more than
5,000 years. The word “meditation” is derived from the Latin “meditari,” which means “to
engage in contemplation or reflection.”

Historically, religious or spiritual aims were intrinsic to any form of meditation. These
traditional practices held some type of spiritual growth, enlightenment, personal transformation,
or transcendental experience as their ultimate goal. During the last 40 years, the practice of
meditation has become increasingly popular and has been adapted to the specific interests and
orientation of Western culture as a complementary therapeutic strategy for a variety of healthrelated
problems.

Both secular forms of meditation and forms rooted in religious and spiritual
systems have increasingly attracted the interest of clinicians, researchers, and the general public,
and have gained acceptance as important mind-body interventions within integrative medicine
(the combination of evidence-based conventional and alternative approaches that address the
biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness). With an estimated
10 million practitioners in the United States and hundreds of millions of practitioners
worldwide, meditation was the first mind-body intervention to be widely adopted by
mainstream healthcare providers and incorporated into a variety of therapeutic programs in
hospitals and clinics in the United States and abroad.

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