Patients Do Better With Psychotherapist Who Practice Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness meditation is essentially about learning to be in the moment and attending to more of ones sensory data and being less caught up in ones own inner monologues (I think). So this bit of research on psychotherapists in training (PiTs) is interesting, though perhaps not entirely surprising when you know what mindfulness meditation entails. "This study indicates that promoting mindfulness in PiTs could positively influence the therapeutic course and treatment results in their patients"
It should probably be noted that, although this article was written highlighting Zen, mindfulness is wider than that tradition, even than Buddhism, there are Christian correlates, for example.
Patients Do Better With Psychotherapist Who Practice Zen Meditation, Study Suggests: