...this capacity; however, it gets obscured by our upbringing and other conditioned habits. Mindfulness of the body helps us see that. Previously: Mindful eating tips for the desk-bound, Six mindfulness...
A segment on PBS NewsHour yesterday explored how Stanford researchers have brought yoga and mindfulness practices to students who experience post-traumatic stress disorder owing to difficult life circumstances. At Cesar...
...Psychology Today. Previously: The promise of yoga-based treatments to help veterans with PTSD, Using mindfulness therapies to treat veterans’ PTSD, As soldiers return home, demand for psychologists with military experience...
...values of providing community service and working with youth. Fu’s project provides a seventh-grade class with weekly, thirty-minute mindfulness-based stress reduction sessions over 10 weeks. He described his work in...
...it is commuting or traveling, eating or talking, sitting around or doing chores, each of these activities presents an opportunity for mindfulness. Here are six easy ways to integrate mindfulness...
Previously on Scope, we've written about the prevalence of burnout among medical students and the use of mindfulness-based programs to help physicians facing similar situations. Now, a study conducted at...
It's fitting to be flagging a Scientific American article on the benefits of quality-of-life-enhancing practices such as time away from work, mindfulness meditation, and nature walks as I prepare to...
...Previously: Stanford establishes ‘banking system’ to help faculty balance their professional and personal lives, How mindfulness-based therapies can improve attention and health, Ommmmm… Mindfulness therapy appears to help prevent depression...
...a recent WIRED article discussing how meditation and mindfulness are being promoted and used by Silicon Valley types as a way to increase productivity.) But I would argue that anything...
...for managing holiday stress and anxiety, Study offers insights into how yoga eases stress and Study shows mindfulness may reduce cancer patients’ anxiety and depression Photo by Bliss Flow Yoga...
...area of the brain may be able to light up for altruistic reasons. "There are many neuroscientists out there looking at mindfulness, but not a lot who are studying compassion,"...
...preparing the study for publication. Her work and that of University of Wisconsin's Richard Davidson, PhD, was recently featured in the documentary "Free the Mind." Previously: Using mindfulness therapies to...
...years. They had beneficial gene profiles even before performing their routines in the lab, suggesting that the techniques had resulted in long term changes to their genes. Previously: How mindfulness-based...
...either a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group or traditional treatment program. Individuals in the mindfulness treatment groups completed in-class exercises, such as "body scanning," where they focused on pain, tension and...
...the questions submitted in a future entry on Scope. How mindfulness-based therapies can improve attention and health: The cover story of the latest issue of Scientific American focuses on the...
...began teaching the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to present day. In the past three decades, have shown that mindfulness-based therapies can be useful...
