5 Mindfulness Steps That Guarantee Increased Success And VitalityIn my training as a family therapist years ago, I began to see clearly that the ways in which we view ourselves and the world around us, in fact, alters our lives and our experiences dramatically. As science has proved, “The observer affects the observed,” or put another way, what you believe, you will live.
Wisdom 2.0Wisdom 2.0 2014 was liveblogged by our friends at MediaShower. Eckhart Tolle, bestselling author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, gave a “meditative lecture” at Wisdom 2.0, leading us on a journey inward that enabled us to experience who we really are. “It’s an amazing thing, this present moment,” he began.
Actually TIME, This Is What The ‘Mindful Revolution’ Really Looks LikePosted: Print Article 2014 has been called the “year of mindful living,” and talk of a mindful revolution seems to be everywhere from Davos to Silicon Valley. Most recently, mindfulness was the subject of a controversial cover of TIME Magazine.
Mindfulness Lowers Pain, Drug MisuseWith nearly one-third of Americans suffering from chronic pain, prescription opioid painkillers have become the leading form of treatment for this debili
More Mindfulness, Less MeditationEric Michael Johnson for The New York Times Here’s the promise: Meditation – and mindfulness meditation, in particular – will reduce your cortisol level, blood pressure, social anxiety and depression. It will increase your immune response, resilience and focus and improve your relationships – including with yourself.
The World-Changing Truth Our Leaders Are Only Beginning To UnderstandJon Kabat-Zinn, a father of the mindfulness and meditation movement in America, traveled to Beijing in November to help lead a cross-section of Chinese leaders and thinkers in a seven-day retreat. Chinese government workers, health care professionals, academics and scientists attended the well-being workshops, but it was the presence of several Buddhist monks that most surprised Kabat-Zinn.
So That’s Their Secret: Pete Carroll Makes All Seahawks Players Take Yoga And MeditateThe Seattle Seahawks are undoubtedly the most poppin’ team in the NFL today. They have the cool west coast coach, a swag star for a quarterback, some fresh-ass uniforms and some of the rowdiest fans in the league. But there is, of course, more than meets the eye.
Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schoolsAt first glance, Quiet Time – a stress reduction strategy used in several San Francisco middle and high schools, as well as in scattered schools around the Bay Area – looks like something out of the om-chanting 1960s.
Meditation for anxiety, depression?Some 30 minutes of meditation daily may improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, a new Johns Hopkins analysis of previously published research suggests. “A lot of people use meditation, but it’s not a practice considered part of mainstream medical therapy for anything,” says Madhav Goyal, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and leader of a study published online Jan.
Mindfulness in Everyday Life: 5 Sure Steps to Achieve New Year’s ResolutionsWe do the same thing every year. New Year’s Eve comes and goes, and our New Year’s resolutions, promised so fiercely at the stroke of midnight, are dismissed shortly thereafter, fading away over time, like friends who’ve moved to another city. It is the dirty not-so-little secret of New Year’s resolutions: They are very rarely kept.
Simple Form Of Meditation Affects The Genes, Study ShowsIt’s no secret that mindfulness meditation — a practice that encourages focusing attention on the present moment — can ease emotional stress. And evidence is mounting that mindfulness also may have key benefits for your physical health — from lowering blood pressure to helping curb addiction.
Gene expression changes with meditationWith evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a period of mindfulness meditation.
You Must Change Your Life: Capitalism and the Evolving DharmaThe following is excerpted from Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment, published by Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books. I’m sitting at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, awaiting a program of millionaires and celebrities, half-envying and half-loathing the fact that many of the people here are filthy rich.
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Silicon Valley giants take to meditation to get the best out of staff – Khaleej TimesIn his latest movie, Ashton Kutcher plays Apple billionaire Steve Jobs. Some time before Thanksgiving, thanks to Twitter, he’ll be a high tech multimillionaire in his own right.
Activist PostWho knows what’s next? Who knows for sure what is going to happen tomorrow? This afternoon? Two minutes from now? We have all experienced unexpected events, shocks and disappointments. From the experience of unfulfilled desire or a change of expectation, a sense of doubt may develop.
Meditate For More Profitable DecisionsIt’s a practice rooted in Hinduism and adopted by beatniks seeking spiritual guidance. Now evidence shows meditation can improve business decisions and save your company from expensive investment mistakes. By Zoe Kinias, INSEAD Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Andrew Hafenbrack, INSEAD PhD student in Organisational Behaviour with Jane Williams, Editor, Knowledge […]
Where Business Elite Succeed and Fail With MeditationAlmost every day, there is news of another corporate executive coming out and saying, “I meditate. It has changed my life and improved my business. I am telling my employees, telling everyone in order to do my best work, I meditate.”
Can DARPA spark a DIY brain-scanning movement?A working prototype of a low-cost electroencephalography device funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made its debut in New York this weekend, the first step in the agency’s effort to jumpstart a do-it-yourself revolution in neuroscience.