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 ...)
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…)
TIME - Research shows that the brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think - altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness, lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion, and even dial up the supposedly immovable happiness set point. (Read the full article here…)
ScienceDaily - People who meditate regularly find pain less unpleasant because their brains anticipate the pain less, a new study has found. (Read the full article here…)
UNC Charlotte - New research now suggests that the mind may be easier to cognitively train than we previously believed. Psychologists studying the effects of a meditation technique known as “mindfulness ” found that meditation-trained participants showed a significant improvement in their critical cognitive skills (and performed significantly higher in cognitive tests than a control group) after only four days of training for only 20 minutes each day. (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 ...)
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