INTERRUPTER: Art Work
Find a painting. On a wall, a calendar, a restaurant, side of a building. Do some impromptu art appreciation. Rinse (your mind) and repeat.
the SCIENCE
Each week brings more research on how mindfulness works and have effective it is. Neuroscientists are discovering how it affects the brain, medical researchers are analyzing its health benefits, and social scientists are showing how it can change our lives and our society.
A new study finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic.
Matt Killingsworth answers the question using the Track Your Happiness app he built.
Richard Davidson, Ph.D., on where it came from and where it's going.
Ed Halliwell on whether scientific studies on mindfulness can do justice to the transformations felt by those who practice it.
Are there provable methods we can use to become more altruistic and compassionate? Barry Boyce reports on CCARE's growing number of scientists and researchers who are studying how to bring out the best in human nature.
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Ed Halliwell on what mindful movement taught him about his patterns of thinking.
Elisha Goldstein: Beyond teen exam stress.
Steph Tlalka: Meditation vacuum cleaner?