Categories: Health and Wellness, Healthcare and Meditation, News
Let’s face it: Some of us have at least some trouble controlling our anger, depression, or other forms of emotional distress during frustrating or saddening times. Emotions themselves are unavoidable, so instead of doing everything we can to avoid them, we should be facing them head on. After all, how we cope with and manage […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation for Children
“Providing mindfulness treatment for parents and children simultaneously may target those parents high on ADHD, who are shown to be at risk of nonresponse to behavioral parent training.” — Saskia Oord Sometimes the parents of children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder — ADHD — don’t know how to manage their child. This can often lead to […]
Categories: Healthcare and Meditation
It’s no secret that meditation has been gaining steam in the west for a very long time now. As its popularity continues to increase, more and more scientists are becoming interested in testing its effectiveness, and the studies keep producing positive results time and time again. Researchers are mostly interested in seeing how well meditation […]
Categories: Health and Wellness, Healthcare and Meditation
Mounting scientific evidence has shown that meditation can affect a person’s mood by making them more relaxed and at ease; it can create real changes in the body and the mind; and it might even help some people get over their addictions. So it’s not surprising that for some time many researchers have been wondering […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Healthcare and Meditation
One of the topics we talk about frequently on this blog is how meditation can reduce stress and anxiety. This claim is backed by numerous studies that have observed these positive effects in patients; however, a new study has come out that is really special. In the past, researchers have relied on less than sophisticated […]
Categories: Healthcare and Meditation
Thanks to lots of research that has been done over the past few decades, it’s now a widely known fact that meditation can reduce stress and anxiety. For this reason, it’s safe to assume that meditation is probably good for regulating emotions. That being said, though, there is scientific evidence to suggest that meditation has […]
Categories: Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
One of the topics we’ve discussed many times on this blog is how mindfulness meditation can help with depression. It’s not uncommon for people to be skeptical of this claim. Drugs, along with cognitive therapy, have been the standard methods for treating depression going back as far as the 1960’s, and when a person seeks […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Welcome to part four of my short series on mental resiliency and compassion fatigue. This will be the last installment in this series, but before we get started, let’s just do a quick recap of what’s been discussed so far. Please, if you have not read the first three parts, make sure you read them […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Last week we talked about compassion fatigue – secondary traumatic stress disorder – and touched briefly on how it plays into mental resiliency. This week we are going to talk all about resilience, and the difference between people with resilient minds – those who bounce back from emotional adversity quickly – and people with fragile […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Military
Today’s post is the first part of a short series I’m beginning on the subject of building up your own mental resiliency. Before I really delve into the nuts and bolts of this subject, I want to spend some time just talking about compassion fatigue – what it is, how it ties into mental resiliency, […]
