Review Article Meditation and Mental Well Being

The concept of mental well-being refers to op t imal psycholog ica l func t ion ing and experience. Mental heal th has largely been def ined as absence of psych ia t r i c i l lness . Mind influences health and disease was once considered very essent ia l par t of medic ine but in l as t few hundred years mind and medic ine have s lowly dr i f t ed apar t . For much of the last century, psychology’s focus on the amelioration of psychopathology has overshadowed the promot ion of wel l -be ing and personal growth. But beginning in the la te 1960s wi th a sh i f t in focus towards prevention, and continuing to the present, a few researchers have been studying growth, wel l be ing and the promot ion of wel l be ingness .