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June 2011
- Mindfulness may ease irritable bowel symptoms(Reuters)
- Integrative way: Hope for menopausal symptoms(Bellingham Herald)
- How to cure shopping addiction (The Guardian)
- Mindfulness and Horse therapy for veterans with PTSD(Daily Camera)
- How UK musicians are working with mindfulness(Guardian)
- Mindfulness can help us make more rational and compassionate financial decisions(Psychology Today)
- Mindfulness can help with some menopausal symptoms. (Washington Post)
- May 2011
- Cancer survivors benefit from meditation: new data (mindful.org)
- Mindful meditation might ease irritable bowel syndrome (US News)
- It's time for your meditation - More than just an aid to wellbeing, the ancient discipline could soon be used to treat conditions from obesity to multiple sclerosis (Independent)
- Meditation prescribed more often as alternative to conventional medicine, study finds(ABC News)
- Mindfulness therapy fights stress and depression by teaching you how to 'own' the present (Daily Telegraph)
- April 2011
- How meditation may ward off the effects of ageing (The Observer)
- Meditation may help the brain 'turn down the volume' on distractions, through enhanced control of alpha rhythms (Eurekalert)
- Meditation makes people more rational decision-makers (USA Today)
- Even beginners can curb pain with meditation (NPR) and Meditation 'better than morphine' at easing pain (Daily Mail)
- March 2011
- Use mindfulness to manage pain (Irish Independent)
- Being Mindful Eases Fear of Death and Dying (Times of India)
- February 2011
- Meditation beats dance for harmonising body and mind (UC Berkeley News Center)
- How meditation helps beat stress by changing patterns of gene activity (The Times of India)
- How meditation may change the brain (New York Times)
- TV piece on the latest research on mindfulness from Massachussets (Fox News)
- Mindfulness therapy puts the focus on improving the quality of body and spirit (Boston Globe)
- January 2011
- Until there’s a pill, “female Viagra” is all in your head - mindfulness and its impact on sex drive (Gay City News)
- Mindfulness meditation may strengthen certain brain regions (wildmind)
- Jon Kabat Zinn and others discuss mindfulness (BBC World Service)
- Mindfulness therapy can treat anxiety, depression, experts say - latimes.com
- December 2010
- 7 Mindfulness effective for depression (Fox News)
- November 2010
- 11 Is a Wandering Mind an Unhappy One? (Time Magazine)
- 7 Mindfulness and Ecology, from Always Well Within.
- 7 Mindfulness for dentists - a resource to ease stress for dentist and patient
- 5 Meditation benefits linked to telomerase enzyme activity.
- 4 Huxley's reminder birds - how can we remember to pay attention (RSA blog)
- 3 Most 'do nothing to counter stress'. And how mindfulness can help...
- October 2010
- 28 Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can (CNN)
- 18 Sleep school? It worked like a dream...Using mindfulness to work with insomnia
- 7 In-depth Shambhala Sun interview with Jon Kabat Zinn
- 2 Fully experiencing the present: a practice for everyone, religious or not. Interview in the LA Times with Jon Kabat-Zinn.
- September 2010
- 29 Troops PTSD may be reduced with mind fitness (mindfulness training)
- 28 Mindfulness Meditation Helps Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Researchers Say
- 27 Online mindfulness-based CBT helpful for IBS
- 23 The Neuroscience of Happiness - excellent descriptions of practices to develop contentment from Buddha's Brain author Rick Hanson.
- 20 Wellington college extends 'happiness lessons' to parents. Classes to include mindfulness training
- 16 What Everyone Should Know about How Stress Affects the Brain, and the impact of mindfulness
- 13 The anti-ageing health benefits of mindfulness meditation
- 8 On the need for mindful leadership in business
- 6 New study shows that even brief mindfulness training can reduce people's sense of pain
- 6 Mindfulness skills useful in addressing ADHD
- 2 Round-up of the latest mindfulness research studies from Mindful Experience.
- August 2010
- 29 The Mindfulness Chronicles, on Ellen Langer's pioneering research.
- 29 Meditation acutely improves performance on certain tasks, and may decrease sleep need.
- 27 Great interview with Thich Nhat Hanh on mindful consumption and sustainability at the Guardian
- 24 Law School to Cultivate Peaceful and Ethical Lawyers Through 'Mindfulness' Techniques
- 22 'The Good News About Alzheimer's: How Mindfulness Can Heal Patients and the Ones Who Care for Them'
- 20 How meditation affects the brain (as compared to relaxation techniques)
- 10 Meditation Technique Changes Brain, Makes Mind Stronger, and may delay ageing
- 9 Round-up of the latest mindfulness research studies, from Mindful Experience
- 5 How Mindfulness Meditation Improves Relationships
- 4 US Army adopts mindfulness meditation
- 2 Effects of Brief and Sham Mindfulness Meditation on Mood and Caridovascular variables...
- July 2010
- 31 New Study Investigates Mindfulness Meditation for Alcohol Relapse Prevention
- 31 Meditation boosts reaction time and reduces the need for sleep
- 20 Mindfulness training study to help military members combat the mental health effects of war.
- 19 The busy mind on meditation - Brief sessions can help with dealing with deadlines and pain relief
- 17 Mindful Motherhood Cassandra Vieten reports on her innovative training program offering stress relief to new moms - from the Greater Good Science Centre
- 16 The Greater Good Guide to Mindfulness - some great examples of settings where mindfulness is making a difference
- 16 Meditation helps increase attention span
- 15 Quiet Justice - Mindfulness in the practice of law
- 15 Mind/body techniques effective for chronic pain
- 14 Fine interview with Dan Siegel on mindfulness and the brain.
- 14 Meditation in the lab - good overview of scientific studies on mindfulness
- 11 Use your brain to relieve pain - more on mindfulness for pain
- 9 Meditation rescued me from misanthropy - by Tim Parks (New Statesman)
- 7 On mindfulness and plain speaking, by Deborah Schoeberlein (Huffington Post)
- 7 Mindful eaters less likely to be overweight
- 5 How meditation can develop skills in attention and compassion - first results from the shamatha project
- 3 'Mind-body' therapy shows promise for fibromyalgia
- June 2010
- 28 Can mindfulness prevent doctors from burning out?
- 28 Norman Fischer on presenting meditation in Judaism, Zen - and at Google
- 26 Experience is everything - Piece on Huxley and Perennial Philosphy from Bruce Chilton (Guardian)
- 17 Meditation Improves Cognitive Skills in Just Four Days
- 15 Mind Over Matter Meditation: Effective Gene Therapy
- 14 Interesting piece on mindfulness for sleep - falling awake, perhaps?
- 4 Researchers see promise in treating addictive behaviors with mindfulness meditation
- 4 Mummy, can we meditate now? How relaxation exercises can help your child to sleep
- 3 Meditation reduces the emotional impact of pain - new study from Manchester University
- May 2010
- 26 Want to beat tinnitus? Try meditating for 20 minutes