fambly Self-compassion - A Healthier Way of Relating to Yourself creswell research David Creswell, assistant professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, continues to do extensive research on how mindfulness can affect our health and our lives for the better. On anxiety: A 2013 study published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that mindful attention reduces self-reported cravings in smokers, as well as reduced neural activity in the craving-related region of the brain. On smoking cessation: A study in NeuroImage in 2013 concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be an effective treatment for reducing anxiety and mood symptoms in patients with generalized anxiety disorder. On loneliness: In 2012, a study published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity found that an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program helps decrease loneliness in older adults. On behavior regulation: More mindfulness studies by David Creswell Creswell, J.D., Pacilio, L.E., Lindsay, E.K., & Brown, K.W.
CompassionateMind.net - Home Book Summary - How To Wake Up When we’re fully present for our life as it is, whether it’s pleasant or unpleasant at the moment, we have the potential to awaken to a peace and well-being that aren't dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. Embracing our life in this way is the promise of peace left to us by the Buddha. Like How to Be Sick, How to Wake Up is a practical book—full of exercises and practices, all illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from my experience as a Buddhist practitioner of over twenty years. Because the book focuses on integrating the Buddha’s teachings into everyday life, it is intended for both experienced practitioners and those with no background in Buddhism. The Buddha’s teachings are not passive. They challenge us to be fully present and actively involved in our moment-to-moment experience.
Meditation Makes Us Act with Compassion You’re in a waiting room, seated next to two other people. There are only three chairs. A woman enters on crutches, a medical boot on one leg. She winces, checks her phone, sighs uncomfortably, and leans against the wall. Neither of the other people responds. Do you get up and offer her your seat? Pete Saloutos You’ll be much more likely to if you meditate, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. In the study, Paul Condon and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern University and Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital assigned people with little or no meditation experience to one of two eight-week meditation classes, or put them on a wait list for a class. Both meditation classes were taught in a completely secular format. After eight weeks, the researchers observed how people responded to that waiting room situation. Speakers at the conference also considered why meditation, specifically mindfulness meditation, might nurture compassion.
The Ancient Brain and Modern Mindfulness | The Challenges and Opportunities that Exist in our Minds and Bodies Meditation Matters – A mindfulness in the workplace tip | Tasting Mindfulness Managing your energy throughout the day will determine if you feel good, get your work done, and have enough get-up-and-go left over to have fun with your family and friends after work. Believe it or not, your energy level is one of the only things you have control over. Some behaviors decrease your energy (like eating too much sugar or sitting in front of a computer for too many hours without a break) and some behaviors increase your energy (like taking time for a healthy lunch and positive self-talk). Most people I talk to say that their workday is too busy and they have too much to do—a set up for being burned out and fatigued. However, not all breaks are the same. And, meditation matters. My suggestion would be to meditate for a few minutes at some point during the day.
Physicists Find a Link between Wormholes and Spooky Action at a Distance Wormholes and entanglement—two of science fiction's favorite concepts from modern physics—may in reality be two sides of the same coin, physicists say. The findings may offer a way to solve puzzling mysteries about black holes and perhaps help reconcile theories of gravity and quantum physics, which has been the dream of physicists since the mid–20th century. Wormholes are hypothetical shortcuts through spacetime, also known as Einstein–Rosen bridges, after Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, who predicted them in 1935. Entanglement is another way of connecting two distant objects: When two particles are entangled, they retain a connection even when separated over great distances, so that actions performed on one affect the other. Then physicists Leonard Susskind of Stanford University and Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. began to think about entangling two black holes to one another. Two independent teams have since found support for the idea.