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 …)
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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 ...)
The Wall Street Journal - To help patients, therapists often counsel either changing behavior to address their fears or denying fears as irrational. Now, a third approach argues that accepting fears can loosen their grip. (Read the full article here…)
Psychology Today - A new study by Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth, confirms something we've all suspected: most of us are 'mentally checked out' a good portion of the time. The study also showed that ‘mind wandering’ turns out to be a better predictor of happiness than the actual activities people are engaged in. (Read the full article here ...)
CNN Health - A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry finds that depression patients in remission who underwent mindfulness therapy did as well as those who took an antidepressant, and better than those who took a placebo. That means that mindfulness therapy was as effective as antidepressants in protecting against a relapse of depression. (Read the full article here …)
Scientific American - A new study shows that meditation opens the gateway to compassion. (Read the full article...) Psychology Today - Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation—even love—are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain. (Read the full article...) |