Chronic health problems, by definition, don’t go away quickly (or at all). And when we can’t help patients heal, the next best thing might be helping them cope. Enter mindfulness meditation. Jillian Simpson, RN, and Tim Mapel, senior lecturer at New Zealand’s Eastern Institute of Technology, wanted to find out whether mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) […]
The Power of Mindfulness Meditation – Changing How We Look at the Present
It can happen anytime, anywhere, to every one of us. And perhaps the most maddening thing about it is that there’s nothing we can do to speed its progress when we want it – or stop it from happening when we don’t. I’m talking about change . . . . . . and often the […]
Mindfulness Meditation – Celebrating an Incredible Journey
Live in the present moment. Pay attention. It’s such a simple principle . . . . . . and yet, over the last eight weeks, we’ve watched it flourish in unexpected ways. We’ve seen how mindfulness can pierce the “trance of unworthiness” to create self-acceptance. We shrank it down to a three-minute exercise . . […]
The Power of Mindfulness Meditation – Helping Children Change
How might our adult lives be different if we’d learned about mindfulness as children? A lot of us didn’t start hearing about mindfulness meditation until we were well into adulthood, not to mention well into managing a hectic and stressful lifestyle. Troublesome habits can form as early as elementary school, as children attempt to juggle […]
Mindfulness Meditation – One Way to Defend Against Posttraumatic Stress
Paranoia. Flashbacks. Nightmares. Symptoms like these only scratch the surface of the daily struggle that people afflicted with posttraumatic stress (PTS) experience. Just getting through an average day can be agonizing – and people suffering sometimes turn to harmful methods of self-treatment that can compound their torment. But according to US Congressman Tim Ryan, there’s […]