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Mindful multitasking: with less stress, more concentration
Need to do some serious multitasking? Meditation training can help, new research shows.
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Study: Female entrepreneurs more likely to meditate
Research by Baylor University in Waco, Texas reveals that 37 percent of female entrepreneurs practice meditation—almost 10 percent more than their male counterparts.
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The United Nations present their first World Happiness Report
The report reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and absence of misery as criteria for government policy.
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Search Inside Yourself
Google’s own Chade-Meng Tan writes about the groundbreaking mindfulness-based training program—Search Inside Yourself—offered at one of the world's most successful companies.
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Harvard students design independent study about meditation and successful people
Two Harvard Business School (HBS) students, Nikita Singhal and Suken Vakil, plan to study whether a focus on contemplative practices contributes to success in business.
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Building an evidence base for mindfulness in educational settings
For those of us who teach mindfulness in educational settings, building an evidence base for our work is critical. Mindfulness programs in educational settings are growing in popularity, but if this trend is to continue, and not become a passing fad, it needs research. I am often…
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How Can Teens REALLY Be Happier?
It’s no secret that scientists condition lab mice to act certain ways by offering them a big incentive—food. When the mice reach it, they get to eat, and are satisfied. In human terms, we’re also conditioned to act a certain way throughout our lives in order to obtain the “cheese” being…
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Being Consumed
I was recently reminded of a column I once read. It was written by an organizational leader who was describing her realization about the auto-pilot way she was going through her life, and her ultimate discovery of the mind’s capacity to cultivate awareness. She shared that ”Blackberries used to be something we consumed,…
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Compassion
CCARE offers compassion training
CCARE's spring and summer 2012 Stanford Compassion Training Classes, taking place at both Stanford and UC Berkeley, are now open for registration.
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What are you missing? An experiment.
It was around this time of year in 2007 when The Washington Post organized a grand social experiment—one definitely worth revisiting. See what happens in the 3-minute video below. Here’s the recap: On a cold January morning, in a Washington DC metro station, a man with a…
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