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from The Examined Life
Tuesday, November 8 2011
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been catching up on streaming videos from Creating A Mindful Society, the Mindful.org-sponsored event which took place in New York last month. Two segments stood out for me. The first was Richie Davidson’s brilliant keynote on the neuroscience of meditation—a clear and cogent outline of what happens in our brains as we train in presence and kindness. The second was a discussion of why, twenty years after publication of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s seminal book, Full Catastrophe Living, and with so much evidence pointing towards the benefits, mindfulness practice hasn’t yet become a part of most people’s lives.
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posted by Ed Halliwell, 1:00 am
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from Your Stories
Friday, November 4 2011
When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so?
I am a new convert, enthusiast and practitioner of mindfulness. I took my first eight-week workshop starting at the end of this past March.
I recently decided (after 20 years) that anti-depressant medications were not helping me, and I was motivated to find tools to help me combat, deal with and stave off the crippling bouts of depression I have experienced for more than 40 years.
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from Your Stories
Tuesday, November 1 2011
When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so?
Years ago, my husband had been layed off. We were experiencing financial difficulties. I had also been newly diagnosed with a chronic illness. My physician referred me to the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMass Hospital to help me to cope with my changing circumstances.
How has mindfulness made a difference in your life?
It broadened the way I looked at life and life's circumstances. The practice has given me a larger container in which to handle the discomforts of my illness and life's challenges. It has helped me to look at life in a more honest and optimistic way. It has taught me not to let thoughts, emotions, the past or the future take me away from this present moment by creating stories that can undermine my life's happiness.
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from Heart & Mind
Tuesday, November 1 2011
It’s not too often that my first response to pain is, “Fantastic!”
But when I collapsed to the ground after banging my ankle on a hardwood meditation bench, I knew this was an opportunity for a scientific experiment. I had spent the last few days preparing a talk on the neuroscience of meditation. More specifically, how meditators process pain differently than non-meditators.
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posted by Kelly McGonigal, 12:00 am
from The Examined Life
Tuesday, October 25 2011
It’s estimated (conservatively) that one in ten children in the United States would qualify for a diagnosis of Attention Hyperactivty Disorder. We live in an age of "continuous partial attention," where the constant pressure to react to a flood of stimuli goes beyond the reasonable capacities of our brains. We know that young, growing brains are especially vulnerable to being shaped by negative experience—a scattered attention can create a brain in disharmony, which may further impede our ability to focus. And a mind that can’t sustain focus is a mind that will find it difficult to learn something new.
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