Anxiety
Mindfulness Changes How We Process Sadness
What brain science reveals about the different ways we experience emotions.
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Mental Health
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Anxiety
Why So Curious?
Curiosity killed the cat. Or did it? Research suggests it keeps us—and other animals—sharp.
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Anxiety
Can Helping Others Keep You Sober?
New research suggests that helping others—and the sense of belonging it brings—can help alcohol and drug addicts stay sober.
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Anxiety
The 7 Drivers of Old Habits of Thinking
When it comes to negative experiences, we have habitual ways of responding to what triggers us. But we can learn to step out of and stay out of negative thought cycles.
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Anxiety
How to Practice Mindful Eating When You’re Anxious
When we're anxious, we tend to want to push negative feelings away. For some, this dynamic plays into a suppressed appetite. Mindfulness can help calm the brain and re-connect us with the body.
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Anxiety
The Joy of Missing Out
Why it's important to leave some space for being alone—and how our tech gadgets get in the way.
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Anxiety
When Vulnerability and Trauma Collide
Point of View Podcast Episode 4: How mindfulness can help us work through trauma and PTSD in order to build resilience.
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Anxiety
Cooling the Raging Fires of Anger
Anger can be our undoing, but it doesn’t have to be that way, says Jeffrey Brantley, M.D.
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Anxiety
How Happy Brains Respond to Negative Things
Recent research provides a whole new understanding of the brain's amygdala—and suggests that happy people take the bad with the good.
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Anxiety
How Mindfulness Helps You Find Your Way Through Difficulty
If you take up the practice of meditation, the journey will go far beyond stress reduction, writes Ed Halliwell. Here are some of the qualities you’ll discover and explore as you travel.
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