Kids and Teens
What’s On Our Minds
Three things that are on the top of our editors' minds right now.
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Mindfulness Research
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Category: Mindfulness Research
Anxiety
Is Mindfulness the Future of Therapy?
Fifteen years after Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy was introduced to the world, this groundbreaking treatment only reaches a small percentage of people suffering from depression. Two innovators want to change that.
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Calm
Can a Change in Mindset Help Teens De-stress?
According to a recent study, training teens in a "growth mindset" can reduce their stress and improve their grades.
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Anxiety
The Trouble with Mindfulness Apps
When your favorite mindfulness app says it’s based in science, check twice. Few actually are. Two mindfulness experts and app developers talked to Mindful about how most apps rely on the science of mindfulness in general to back up their claims, and how that could lead to problems—and fines—in the future, like it did for the brain-training company Lumosity.
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Focus
Just 6 Seconds of Mindfulness Can Make You More Effective
All you need is a single breath.
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Calm
Using Mindfulness to Navigate “Self”
Holding onto pain and loss keeps us mired in anxiety and perpetuates our problems over the long term. Mindfulness can help us change our relationship to what we find limiting in our lives.
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Compassion
Why We Should Teach Empathy to Preschoolers
One Berkeley preschool is baking empathy into its curriculum—and for good reason.
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Mindful Movement
Athletes Can’t Get By on Grit Alone
It takes more than dogged persistence and a combative mindset to hit peak performance. If the game is 90 percent mental and emotional, then mindfulness has a role to play in getting athletes prepped for their best.
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Compassion
Mindfulness and Generosity: What’s the Connection?
What makes the difference between giving and holding back? It turns out generosity is a skill we can develop, and hard times play a big role.
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Kids and Teens
How Mindfulness Protects Against Postpartum Depression
According to research, rather than antidepressants, there’s another option in dealing with postpartum depression: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
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