The Charter for Compassion
Read the call to action that is inspiring people around the world to campaign for a more compassionate global community. Read More
Read the call to action that is inspiring people around the world to campaign for a more compassionate global community. Read More
On May 25, 2011, Stanford University held its first campus-wide official Day of Kindness. All that was required was being kind and noticing kindness throughout the day. Read More
Shamash Alidina, M.Eng. M.A.(Ed) is the bestselling author of Mindfulness for Dummies, and has taught mindfulness in the UK for more than a decade. Alidina is also the founder of ‘Learn Mindfulness‘, an organization that trains both the public and therapists and… Read More
Shamash Alidina invites you to explore what your deep intentions of mindfulness are with these two simple exercises. Read More
AOL/Huffington Post’s new Healthy Living pages launched today, with a category devoted to Mindfulness under its “Spirit” section. The other three categories in the section are Spiritual Development, Forgiveness, and Wisdom. Posts in the mindfulness section feature such writers as Susan Kaiser Greenland, Dan Goleman and Rick… Read More
New research suggests that the same areas in the brain that are activated by physical pain are also activated at moments of intense social rejection. “Social Rejection Shares Somatosensory Representations With Physical Pain,” was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study’s lead author,… Read More
New research shows promise for women undergoing certain infertility treatments—they’re more likely to become pregnant if they take part in a simultaneous stress reduction program. The finding, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, raises new and controversial questions about the role that stress may play in infertility. Read More
Modern technology presents both amazing opportunities and incredible challenges for today's young people. The Wisdom 2.0 Youth Conference will explore this balance. With more than 75 per cent of teens now owning cell phones, and sending or receiving an average of 3,339 texts a month, the impact… Read More
"So there I was driving," writes Elisha Goldstein, "only to look up and find that I was three exits past where I needed to get off. Talk about being on auto-pilot. Sound familiar?" Read More
Asthma cases in the U.S. are on the rise, and mindfulness has been shown to help mitigate attacks. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed new statistics indicating that nearly 1 in 12 Americans were diagnosed with asthma by 2009. The Vital Signs report found that people diagnosed… Read More