Meditation, Spiritual Experience and Patient Care
Richard Schaub, PhD
Format: Video of Slides

Using the context of two patients with Stage 4 cancer, Dr. Schaub will describe and demonstrate meditative methods that led to spiritual experiences in the office. These experiences positively affected the patients' moods, sense of meaning, and capacity for resilience. Conference participants will be guided through two methods, and Dr. Schaub will offer suggestions for bringing this meditative/new meaning work into the clinic and office. The placebo literature is looking at new meaning as the variable that causes a brain/mind