By Ann Douglas for The Star Here’s some good news about that much talked about teenage brain. Teenagers who practice mindfulness — a technique that involves focusing on what is happening in the moment and… Read More »Teen Brain Benefits from Mindfulness Training
by Michael W. Taft We all know by now that mindfulness meditation can create positive changes in your life. It works, but you pretty much have to practice it every day to really reap the… Read More »Five Proven Ways to Get Your Meditation Practice Back on Track
Awesome New York Times article on the measurable changes in the brain that come from long-term meditation. — Michael The role that meditation plays in brain development has been the subject of several theories and… Read More »Meditation Builds a Better Brain
I first encountered the work of Mike Zittel through his cartoons in an early instruction manual by Shinzen Young. Later I met him and his beautiful wife Marta at a Shinzen retreat, sitting with them… Read More »The Body as the Direct Path
By David Swan for pulsetoday Mindfulness training produces clinically significant improvements in quality of life and stress that are equivalent to those seen with inhalers in patients with asthma, a US trial has found. Researchers… Read More »Effects of mindfulness training in asthma ‘comparable to inhalers’
By Jessica Graham “Like someone is trying to slice my sternum open from the inside of my body.” “Like prickly pins in my stomach.” “It feels like a hollowness of air in… Read More »Broken Heart/Open Heart
By Aidan Gardiner for The New York Times La-keeyatta Steward, 17, sat on a small black pillow one recent Tuesday afternoon, her legs tucked under her. Her meditation instructor told her to imagine her body… Read More »Zen for High Schoolers: ‘Notice the Anxiety. Notice the Fear.’
by Aran Levasseur, for pbs.org Think of sitting quietly in a spartan room. There are no TVs, computers, smartphones, books, magazines or music. If you’re like most people, this probably sounds like a recipe for… Read More »Why We Need to Teach Mindfulness in a Digital Age
by Michael W. Taft I used to have a hard time relating to people. As a bald-headed punk, my personality was so intense that my friends jokingly nicknamed me “Toxic Mike.” I felt that I… Read More »Alone Bad, Friend Good – Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness
Back in October we posted an article about meditation helping students. While introducing mindfulness to students is incredibly important, shouldn’t teachers be learning to meditate too? I was very happy to come across this Science… Read More »Mindful Teachers
By Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. A recently published article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology by Kearney, McDermott, Malte, Martinez, and Simpson (2012) may have broad implications for veterans suffering with symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder… Read More »Mindfulness and the Military: Does Self-Acceptance Help Veterans?
By Denise Reynolds RD Meditation is a mind-body practice in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in which a person learns to focus attention and become mindful of thoughts, feelings, and sensations. It can also bring about… Read More »Meditation Pumps Up the Brain, Improves Ability to Adapt
My friend Rick Hanson is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author of the books, Buddha’s Brain and Just One Thing. In this post, he discusses the absurdity of taking life’s events personally, and gives some pointers… Read More »Don’t Take It Personally