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Anxiety
Suffering Is Optional 

Physical pain is unavoidable, but meditation practice can ease the mental suffering that often accompanies it. Susan Smalley and Diana Winston teach us how. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • January 25, 2011
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Toning Down Tinnitus 

Mindful meditation can help recondition the brain so that it comes to terms with tinnitus, say psychologists and hearing specialists working with the therapy. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • December 20, 2010
Anxiety
Treating Depression: Medication or Meditation? 

A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that depression patients in remission who underwent mindfulness therapy did as well as those who took an antidepressant, and better than those who took a placebo.  Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • December 13, 2010
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Fighting Eating Disorders 

Mindfulness practices directed toward eating and the body can help combat eating disorders, evidence suggests.  Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • December 7, 2010
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Promising Finds for OCD Sufferers 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) learn to respond to obsessions more flexibly, among other positive results, says the first randomized control trial of ACT for OCD.  Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • November 26, 2010
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