ScienceDaily - "This study provides the first indication that mindfulness meditation stress-management training can have a direct impact on slowing HIV disease progression," said lead study author David Creswell, a research scientist at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. (Read the full article here …)
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PsychCentral - According to Eric McCollum, professor of human development at Virginia Tech University, mindfulness meditation helps counselors improve their ability to be emotionally present in therapy sessions with clients. (Read the full article here …)
PsychCentral - At heart, defensiveness is fear of intimacy. Rooted in existential fears of rejection, abandonment, inadequacy, and the like, it is associated with fears surrounding your survival from the early years of life — childhood — a time when your physical brain and body literally needed love to survive. (Read the full article here …)
UC Berkeley News Center - The body is a dancer’s instrument, but is it attuned to the mind? A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice meditation. (Read the full article here …)
PsychCentral - A new study suggests mindfulness training can help high-stressed U.S. military groups prepare for deployment to Iraq. (Read the full article here ...)
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