Is mindfulness effective with chronic pain? Many practitioners asked this question in a recent survey. They also wanted to know how they could convince their skeptical clients to give mindfulness a try. The connection between mindfulness and healing emotional pain, like stress or anxiety, may make more sense to your patients. But physical pain? That’s […]
Do your wandering thoughts make you unhappy? You’re not alone.
Everywhere I go, I see people glued to their phones. People seem obsessed with their phones and you might even say, why not? Phones these days can do everything – take photos, store games and books, keep our calendars…Even help us chart our happiness. Yes, I did say chart our happiness. This app is one […]
Meditation or Morphine?
What if we could replace morphine and other pain-relieving drugs with meditation? Fadal Zeidan, PhD from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center recently conducted a study in which he found that a form of mindfulness meditation, known as focused attention, drastically diminished subjects’ experience of pain. In previous findings morphine has been shown to reduce […]
Meditation: Weight Training for the Brain?
I know that mindfulness and meditation practices have positive effects not only on the spirit, but also on the brain and body, but some of my patients were not always so certain. Some would be willing to try anything once, but then there were the others who would kind of look sideways at me with […]
The Smoothie Challenge: Getting Healthier as a Team
In the midst of the 10 Day Challenge that we issued to the global practitioner community a few weeks back, I started thinking about the need for improved health closer to home. We all spend lots of time in the office, so where better to promote healthy habits than in the setting where we toil […]