Mindfulness News

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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