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Complementary Health Practice Review
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Envisioning a Future Contemplative Science of Mindfulness: Fruitful Methods and New Content for the Next Wave of Research

Eric Garland, MSW, LCSW

Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation-Program on Integrative Medicine, School of Social Work & School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, elgarlan{at}gmail.com

Susan Gaylord, PhD

Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation-Program on Integrative Medicine, School of Social Work & School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mindfulness is an ancient spiritual practice as well as a unique behavioral technique involving the cultivation of non-judgmental, non-reactive, metacognitive awareness of present-moment experience. Given the growing interest in mindfulness across numerous academic and clinical disciplines, an agenda is needed to guide the next wave of research. Here, we suggest four areas that, in our view, are important for a future contemplative science of mindfulness: performance-based measures of mindfulness, scientific evaluation of Buddhist claims, neurophenomenology of mindfulness, and measuring changes in mindfulness-induced gene expression. By exploring these domains, the wisdom of the meditative traditions may be complemented by leading-edge empirical research methodologies.

Key Words: mindfulness • methods • neurophenomenology • psychosocial genomics • qualitative

Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, 3-9 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1533210109333718
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