Kelee® Meditation: A Distinctive and Effective Therapeutic Intervention for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression

NCT ID: NCT01527955

Last Updated: 2012-02-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 47 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2011-06-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine how effective Kelee meditation is in improving stress, anxiety, and depression.

Detailed Description

The Kelee and Kelee meditation (KM) were developed and founded by Ron W. Rathbun. KM is a unique and distinctive form of meditation that is easy to learn and requires only about 10 minutes twice a day to perform. The goal and discipline of KM is the development of one-pointed stillness of mind. To better comprehend how KM is effective in reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, one must understand the difference between concentration and meditation, and the basic principles of the Kelee. Experiencing and understanding the distinction between brain function and mind function are of vital importance in KM. Brain function is associated with the tension-based, intellectual, thinking process and the five physical senses whereas mind function is associated with the relaxation-based, experiential, mental feeling process, self-awareness, and clear perception. Performing KM leads to the calming of brain function and opening to the experience of mind function. With continued practice, persistence, and patience, the practitioner can begin to learn on his own how to examine and understand (ie, troubleshoot) his own thoughts and feelings from a calm, clear internal space that is free from the negative chatter and preconception associated with the brain. This increases self-awareness of the presence of internalized compartments (misperceptions of life that exist as negative thoughts and/or feelings) and the practitioner begins to develop clarity of perception. Clear perception allows one to begin the process of detachment from internalized compartments, which occurs through the cessation of looping followed by the processing of compartments. As each negative compartment dissipates, the practitioner experiences a subtle, but cumulative, corresponding improvement in stress, anxiety, and depression. When the flow of the Kelee is allowed to be, there is balance between the thinking and the feeling process leading to overall well-being, which leads to improved self-efficacy and reinforces the repetition of KM.

Conditions

Stress; Anxiety; Depression

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

Kelee Meditation

The participants were instructed on how to perform Kelee Meditation (KM) at the initial session. This was followed by a comprehensive review of the Kelee principles and reference points over the subsequent 12 weeks. At the beginning of each weekly session, a group meditation was performed, which was followed by individual introspection and contemplation. Participants recorded their observations and experiences in a KM journal. Each participant had the opportunity to share his own journal entry and to ask questions about his own observations and experiences since starting KM. Participants were encouraged to perform the KM practice 10 minutes twice daily throughout the 12 weeks of the study.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Documented HIV-1 infection
• Ages 18 to 65
• Experiencing some level of stress, anxiety, or depression
• No current use of other meditation practices or holistic modalities

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-English readers or speakers
• Hearing-impaired
• Low literacy below 5th grade reading and comprehension level

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of California, San Diego

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Daniel Lee, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Daniel Lee, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Diego

Locations

Being Alive San Diego

San Diego, California, United States

University of California, San Diego Medical Center

San Diego, California, United States

Countries

United States

Related Links

http://www.thekelee.org

Kelee Foundation website for more information about Kelee Meditation

Other Identifiers

IRB Project#081197

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id