The practice of mindfulness provides tools for cultivating focus, resilience, and well-being--both yours and your child's. They take advantage of the brain's innate capacity to rewire itself, an ability we all maintain at any age.
Date Posted: September 19, 2015
Categories: Adult ADHD, Mindfulness, Parenting
GOMichie, a meditation coach and best-selling author of The Dalai Lama's Cat, Buddhism ...
Aug 22
Categories: Mindfulness
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It is normal for our minds to wander. Whether we are in conversation, at work, or doing day-to-day activities, we have a tendency to think about the past or the future. When we do this, we are more prone to anxiety and depression. By practicing ...
Jul 27
Categories: Mindfulness
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Mindfulness - an ancient Buddhist approach to meditation - is attracting increasing attention in the 21st century as a non-invasive treatment for stress and depression. But can it improve mental wellbeing in young people?
May 28
Categories: Meditation, Mindfulness
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Most people now acknowledge that the mind and body are inextricably linked, and problems in one are often related to problems in the other. Yet some bodily complaints seem so physically based that it is hard to imagine that any kind of talk therapy ...
May 18
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Mindfulness
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Have you ever been to an exclusive restaurant that serves tiny portions and found that, in spite of the paltry servings, you felt satisfied afterwards and the food seemed unusually tasty? If so, you might have engaged in what psychologists call ...
May 6
Categories: Mindfulness
GODaydreaming is often associated with lapses of attention, memory loss and depression. Daydreaming consumes as much as 50% of our awaken state. If it is maladaptive, it might be disastrous. Whether daydreaming is good for one, it depends on your ...
Apr 17
Categories: Mindfulness
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At work can seem like the hardest place to practice mindfulness given the many demands and responsibilities we have to manage on a daily basis.
Yet in the office is where we stand to really benefit from being mindful.
Apr 7
Categories: Mindfulness, Workplace Issues
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“Even though we all make a lot of attentional errors and we have difficulty focusing, there’s -some potential for those abilities to improve.”
- Dr Nicholas Turk-Browne
Mar 7
Categories: Mindfulness
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A wandering mind can lead to accidents and lost productivity. Now, a study finds that real-time brain monitoring can be used to help people regain focus.
Feb 24
Categories: Mindfulness
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Over the past decade, there have been many encouraging findings suggesting that mindfulness training can improve a broad range of mental and physical health problems. Yet, exactly how mindfulness positively impacts health is not clear.
Feb 16
Categories: Mindfulness, Mindfulness Meditation
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Have you ever realised that you were dreaming while you were in a dream? This is also known as lucid dreaming. New research have shown that lucid dreaming leads to better problem-solving abilities.
Pbetter problem-solving abilities, new research ...
Jan 31
Categories: Mindfulness
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On an average day we have around 50,000 thoughts and 12,000 internal conversations. A busy mind can be detrimental to your happiness. It leads to clutter, mistakes being made and opportunities being lost, not to mention stressed individuals with a ...
Jan 27
Categories: Happiness, Mindfulness
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Group mindfulness treatment is as effective as individual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in patients with depression and anxiety, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and Region Skåne. This is the first randomised study to ...
Nov 29
Categories: Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Mindfulness
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Many therapists have come to regard cultivating moment-to-moment awareness as a curative mechanism that transcends diagnosis, addresses underlying causes of suffering, and serves as an active ingredient in most effective psychotherapies. The ...
Sep 15
Categories: Mindfulness
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Paying attention or mindfulness comes naturally to all of us and is our birth right yet many humans have to be taught all over again how to stay anchored and undistracted in the present moment. This has presumably always been the case but in the ...
Jun 23
Categories: Adult ADHD, Mindfulness
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