Forget “Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever.” Meditate!
Americans suffer around 500 million colds between them each year, costing some $40 billion in lost work days, doctors’ visits and medicines.
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Meditation: good for the brain, good for the skin too
A new study that combines past research shows how meditation, cognitive behavior therapy, and relaxation techniques have real benefits for severe skin conditions.
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What chronic stress is doing to your workout
A new study shows how individuals suffering from chronic stress take longer to recover after a grueling workout, and how mindfulness can help.
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Anxiety
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and depression
A new study shows how MBCT reduces residual symptoms of depression.
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Being alone doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lonely
If you’ve been following recent news in the mindfulness world, you may have heard about a recent study by David Creswell out of Carnegie Mellon University that showed the wonderful effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as a reduction on perceived loneliness in healthy…
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Prescribing meditation
6.3 million Americans, or roughly 1 in 30 individuals, are being referred by doctors to practice activities like meditation, according to a joint study between Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Anxiety
Study: Can MBSR help HIV-positive people who have acute stress?
A recent study followed a group of Iranians living with HIV over a period of a year. After following MBSR training, participants had an increase in CD4—a common marker used to track immune function and HIV progression.
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Teaching habits of mind in school (audio podcast)
Meditation: coming to a school near you? In this episode of NPR's "On Point," Tom Ashbrook looks at how mindfulness practices are being integrated into North American schools and the research that drives these programs.
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This is your brain on Internet
Next year, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will include "Internet Addiction Disorder." A recent Newsweek article takes an in-depth look at research surrounding our digital habits and how they effect our well being.
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