명상상담의 이론적 토대와 연구현황

Abstract

Meditation counseling encompasses all counseling that is based on, mediates, or adds to meditation, showing that meditation and counseling are essentially in a relationship of intervention. ‘Meditation-Intervened Counseling’ can be said to be a comprehensive and essential definition of meditation counseling. In myeong(瞑), you can see the dark state, the state before thinking, the state of unconsciousness, concentration, and tranquility, and in sang(想), you can see the brightstate,the state ofthinking, consciousness, wisdom, and insight. In the image, you can see the bright appearance and bright thoughts of meditation. In this way, the starting point, mechanism, methodology, and goal of meditation can all be derived from the two letters of myeongsang(瞑想). In counseling, ‘sang(相)’ includes insight of dependent origination, while ‘dam(談)’ encompasses not only verbal communication but also non-verbal communication. From these two characters that make up the word ‘counseling(相談)’ we can derive the subject, mechanism, methodology, and goals of counseling. The research status follows bibliometric analysis. The keyword ‘meditation counseling’ appears in relation to ‘breathing meditation, image-based mindfulness meditation, anxiety, anger,stress, and mindfulness’. Research on meditation counseling uses ‘breathing meditation and image-based mindfulness meditation’ as the main methodology, and ‘anxiety, anger, and stress’ can be said to be topics of meditation counseling. While overseas research trends focus on specific symptoms, domestic research trends focus on cultivating positive emotions. Meditation counseling can acquire universality by aiming for horizontal expansion outside of Buddhism on the basis that meditation is universal to all cultures, and can acquire uniqueness by pursuing meditation as essence of Buddhist doctrine.