Jon Kabat-Zinn “Healing Power of Mindfulness” on Breast Cancer and LIFE

  This interview was conducted by Monty Mckeever and appears on TRICYCLE Buddhist Review Editor’s Blog on October 5, 2010 (On October 6th at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, renowned scientist, writer, and meditation teacher Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn  gave a talk titled  “Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: The Healing Power of Mindfulness,” as part of [...]

TM Meditation Leads To Decrease In Medical Costs

 13 Sep 2011  According to a study published this week in the September/October 2011 issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion (Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 56-60), people with consistently high health care costs experienced a 28 percent cumulative decrease in physician fees after an average of five years practicing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation [...]

Soothe Back-to-School Anxiety, Teach Kids to Relax

        SUNDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — Children who are nervous about the new school year can relax by practicing “mindfulness” during anxious moments, researchers say. Experts at Duke University, in Durham, N.C., recommend mindfulness, which is a technique borrowed from meditation, to help children transition into the new school year and [...]

Integrative Oncology: Mindfulness Meditation

By Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Professor Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University Atlanta, Georgia Guest Editors: Debra Barton, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, FAAN ONCOLOGY Nurse Edition. Vol. 24 No. 10| October 19, 2010

To Sleep AND not to Sleep…

How much sleep is enough? There is no one answer!! At best, the recommended amount is to sleep enough so that one functions optimally. This begs the question, “what is optimal fucntion?” It is difficult enough to know optimal physical function (no fatigue, “achyness”, tired feelings, etc.), and even more so, optimal mental or emotional [...]

Meditation Fit for a Marine

New experiments with the military affirm the benefits of mindfulness. by Vanessa Gregory This article originally appeared in the November 2010 issue of Men’s Journal Two summers ago at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia, a group of reservists prepared for a tour of duty in Iraq. Twelve-hour days were jammed with rifle qualifications, [...]

Meditation May Help Women Cope With Hot Flashes!

Mindfulness training reduces bother, not intensity, of menopause symptoms   FRIDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) — An easy-to-learn meditation technique can help ease the hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia of menopause, a new study says. The University of Massachusetts research showed that mindfulness training, based on a Buddhist meditation concept, reduced the distress associated [...]

Meditate Your Way to A More Creative Mind

            This Post originally appeared on FAST COMPANY ONLINE May 18, 2011  By: Anya Kamenetz                               Want to ignite your creative brain? Slow down!  

Functional MRI Shows How Mindfulness Meditation Changes Decision-Making Process

ScienceDaily (Apr. 21, 2011) — New research shows that Buddhist meditators use different areas of the brain than other people when confronted with unfair choices, enabling them to make decisions rationally rather than emotionally. If a friend or relative won $100 and then offered you a few dollars, would you accept this windfall? The logical [...]

Daniel Goleman:Resilience for the Rest of Us

  this post first appeared on the Harvard Business Review Blog April 2, 2011     There are two ways to become more resilient: one by talking to yourself, the other by retraining your brain. If you’ve suffered a major failure, take the sage advice given by psychologist Martin Seligman in the HBR article “Building [...]

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