In mindfulness, you train your mind to focus on the present and respond with reason before emotion. It's about taking a pause and guiding yourself to become "aware enough in the moment so that before you react, you're aware of how you're responding to a situation," says Ronald Epstein, a professor of family medicine at the University of Rochester ...
Date Posted: March 22, 2014
Categories: Mindfulness
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Mindfulness-based meditation could lessen some symptoms associated with cancer in teens, according to the results of a clinical trial intervention led by researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine children’s ...
Mar 19
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Mindfulness
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In the mid-nineteen-seventies, the cognitive psychologist Ellen Langer noticed that elderly people who envisioned themselves as younger versions of themselves often began to feel, and even think, like they had actually become younger. Men with ...
Feb 10
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As awareness of ADHD in adults increases, so do efforts to develop effective treatments for adults that can complement, or substitute for, medication. One promising treatment is mindfulness meditation training. In ...
Dec 11
Categories: Adult ADHD, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Meditation
GOA habit, either good or bad is an automatic behavior that we engage in without thinking. So how do we change it?
Dec 10
Categories: Addictions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Control Issues, Mindfulness
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"Mindfulness" is the watchword of gurus and lifestyle coaches everywhere. But too much awareness could prevent the formation of good habits, new research suggests.
People high in mindfulness — a state of active attention to what's going on in ...
Nov 22
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A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough shows that people who are aware of and their own thoughts and emotions are less affected by positive feedback from others.
The study, authored by UTSC PhD candidate Rimma Teper, finds that ...
Nov 4
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A short training course in mindfulness improves children’s ability to ignore distractions and concentrate better.
These are the findings of a study carried out by Dominic Crehan and Dr Michelle Ellefson at the University of Cambridge.
Dominic ...
Sep 9
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I've had the privilege of leading hundreds of mindfulness groups over the years as well as retreats and all-day mindfulness workshops for professionals and the general public. When I ask participants and people in audiences questions relating to ...
Aug 1
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It happens to all of us.
Our brains are wired to get caught up in the routine of everyday life. It seems like the older we get, the more responsibilities we have and the easier it is to practice that continuous fractured attention that we’ve all ...
Jun 24
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Mindfulness – a mental training that develops sustained attention that can change the ways people think, act and feel – could reduce symptoms of stress and depression and promote wellbeing among school children, according to a new study ...
Jun 20
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A few weeks ago, while staying with my in-laws, my four-month-old son woke up at two-thirty in the morning. He was hungry, and, knowing that he would not be coaxed back to sleep without a bottle, I brought him downstairs to the kitchen, where his ...
Jun 11
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