January 2012
How to enjoy living in the present moment (Guardian). Ed's contribution to the Guardian/School of Life supplement on making the most of your time.
May 2011
Meditation is an emotional rollercoaster (Guardian) With its surges of rage, disappointment, doubt, yearning or regret, meditation isn't all about relaxation, writes Ed Halliwell
January 2011
You don't need the 'right' kind of zafu to be a Buddhist (Guardian) Western Buddhists need to forge a fresh embodiment of wisdom for their culture and age – through the meditative method
Stressed Out? Try mindfulness meditation (Globe and Mail)
How mindfulness can help with pain management (yourdocmedical)
Pain free: the natural way (Good Housekeeping) Jonty is quoted in this piece on non-pharmaceutical ways to manage pain.
Stars' meditation technique gains mental health experts' approval (The Observer) Piece on the rise of mindfulness training in clinical settings, quoting Ed.
The Mindful Manifesto chosen as book of the year by Sarah Stacey, health columnist for the Mail On Sunday's You Magazine
December 2010
This Column Will Change Your Life: Present Tense (The Guardian)
November 2010
Review of The Mindful Manifesto at yoga-abode.com
October 2010
The magic of mindfulness (Woman's Weekly) (pdf) Jonty is interviewed in this piece about how mindfulness can help with stress and depression
Doing and Being Jonathan Rowson of the RSA blogs on mindfulness, quoting Socrates, Sartre, Sinatra...and us!
Our mental health crisis: finding different strategies (Yoga Abode). Piece about the benefits of mindfulness for mental health, referencing the Mindful Manifesto.
Ed Halliwell on mindfulness (School of Life blog) Expecting meditation to 'make me better', perhaps based on the results of clinical studies, may well sabotage the practice, whose benefit comes partly from letting go of the tendency to grasp for results...
September 2010
How the cure to your illness is all in your mindfulness (Times). Unedited version of the piece written for the Times by Jonty and Ed. Read the version published in the Times.
Mindfulness (1) Teach Us To Sit Still (RSA blog) Jonathan Rowson's insights on the RSA debate on mindfulness that Jonty and Ed took part in. Download and listen to the audio from the event.
Do You Have Wonder Woman Syndrome? (Stylist) The new research that challenges our addiction to 'having it all'. Ed is one of the interviewees.
Mindfulness: Beyond The Science. (Guardian) Scientific studies show the effects of mindfulness, but can they do justice to the transformation felt by many who practise it? Piece written by Ed.
The Mindfulness Manifesto (Psychologies) Q and A with Jonty about his experience of mindfulness as a GP
How to get the happy habit (Evening Standard) Sophie Goodchild writes on how the Mindful Manifesto could help Londoners withstand the pressures of city life
August 2010
Happiness is...all in the mind (Mail on Sunday). Sarah Stacey on mindfulness and The Mindful Manifesto in You magazine
July 2010
Buddhism In Education (Guardian) Piece by Ed on how meditation is justified in schools by its practical benefits. But there's more to it than that...
The Mindful Enlightenment (Guardian) Piece by Ed on how mindfulness practices can bring about a new kind of social enlightenment
June 2010
Investigating the Buddhist mindset (Guardian) Piece by Ed about neuroscience and meditation. Does the Dalai Lama's support for a 'centre for investigating healthy minds' compromise its scientific respectability?
February 2010
A Mindful Life (Sunday Times) - The Sunday Times style magazine interviewed Ed for a short piece about mindfulness.
January 2010
Buddhism beats depression (Guardian) Should the health service sponsor Buddhist techniques to beat depression? Ed argues the case.
'Meditation On Prescription: Charity Urges New Remedy For Depression' (Guardian), 'GPs Should Prescribe Meditation for Depression' (Times), 'GP Access To Depression Treatment Is 'Too Narrow'' (BBC) and 'Meditation 'Should Be Routinely Available On NHS' (Telegraph). Press coverage accompanying the launch of The Mental Health Foundation's Mindfulness Report, written by Ed.
2009
How do you get to Nirvana? Practice (Guardian) Buddhism is not a theory, but a body of practical teachings, and without practice it is just an excuse for smugness
City dwellers urged to slow down (BBC News) The BBC interviewed Ed about the benefits of meditation for a TV report on the 2009 Slow Down London festival.
Our week in slow motion (Evening Standard) Ed gave meditation instruction to the Standard's Sophie Goodchild as part of her coverage of the Slow Down London festival.
Buddhism and the Brain (Guardian) The Mind and Life conference brings together two powerful ways of understanding mind and its place in the world
Searching for enlightenment (Guardian) Is Google's 'school of personal growth' a spiritual boon or corporate fig leaf?
The magic of ordinary experience (Guardian) Buddha avoided the tragi-comic debate about God's existence to focus on far more important issues
Reasons to be cheerful (Guardian) Buddhism teaches that good cheer, rather than 'happiness', might be the key to beating winter blues