« To introduce patients to the practice of mindfulness, there are several protocols developed to adapt to the world of medicine and psychotherapy: mbSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), and MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy). Currently, these programs have shown effectiveness in preventing depressive relapses and chronic depressive states, which is normal, as they are patients who have become large ruminators, and in preventing anxiety recurrences. »

« Consequences: "This life you live, it's just a dead life" The list of evils is long. Have the recurring feeling of not being in tune with one's life, not "good in one's life". Being parasitized by the intuition that we would be better elsewhere, but without really knowing if we would be better (and even: knowing full well that no, we would not be better elsewhere). Always want to escape: but it is ourselves who are locked in ourselves! We'll just move our cage somewhere else. Fitzgerald said: "The famous "Escape" or "flight away from everything" is an excursion into a trap." To feel that you are never in your place, that you can't find it. And end up wondering if there is one for us. To be inhabited, so often, by states of mind of boredom, incompleteness, dissatisfaction. Have feelings of emptiness. To lead the "existences of calm despair" that Thoreau spoke of. Being often immersed in gloom, in cockroaches linked to a daily life whose interest we do not see, in the grayness. »

« Meditation helps us understand the nature of thought. In reality we do not think: our mind produces thoughts, which we choose and s e l e c t, or that impose themselves on us. We just suffer and choose. Production escapes us, we only arrive downstream. Meditating makes us more aware of this: our brain as a thought tap, open constantly for better and for worse. And meditating therefore helps us to choose better, and suffer less, among the flow of these thoughts. The more regular the meditative practice, the less rumination tendencies there are. »