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January 2012
Some great BBC reports on the benefits of mindfulness meditation to start the year. They include Can Sitting Silently Be Good For Your Health (Radio 4, Today programme), Mind Over Matter: Can Meditation Bring Happiness (BBC Breakfast), and Scans 'show mindfulness meditation brain boost' (BBC Breakfast)
December 2011
Mindfulness Exercises Help Curb Stress And Fatigue Associated With Arthritis (Eureka Alert) and Mindfulness Program Eases Arthritis Symptoms (Med Page Today)
November 2011
The benefits of practising compassion meditation (ABC News)
Mindfulness-based stress reduction for PTSD (Daily RX)
Meditation relieves IBS severity, randomised study finds (Gastroendo news)
Mindfulness training reduces risk of depressive relapse by at least a third, says new meta-analysis (Asian Correspondent)
Meditation really is good for the brain as study reveals it switches off areas linkedto ADHD and Alzheimers (Daily Mail)
How meditating may help the brain (CNN). Report on a study which shows meditators show less activity in the part of the brain linked to mind-wandering.
How meditation is helping children deal with stress (Globe and Mail) NB Beware clearing away thoughts fallacy
Meditation improves the immune system, research shows (Daily Telegraph). Report which also reveals some of the mechanisms of how mindfulness affects us.
October 2011
Teaching Doctors to be Mindful (New York Times). Report of a course teaching mindful communication to medics.
Your brain on meditation (mindful.org) Good piece outlining some of the latest mindfulness research
I'm not okay and niether are you (Sydney Morning Herald) Piece outlining some of the problems with 'positive' thinking, and how mindfulness can help
Goldie Hawn discusses teaching meditation and nueroscience to children (ABC Nightline, via Wildmind)
September 2011
Your brain on meditation: Studies show how meditating helps improve focus and minimize pain (Technology Review)
August 2011
Making happiness a habit with mindfulness. (Huffington Post) Piece on mindfulness for kids by Susan Kaiser Greenland
Meditation promotes rational thinking (Miller-Mccune)
July 2011
Getting relief from tinnitus may be mind over matter (ABC News)
Mindfulness behind bars (Greater Good)
Mindfulness meditation takes the goal out of sex (ABC News)
Meditation slows down age-related brain atrophy (Times of India) and Your brain doesn't look a day over 40, dear (mindful.org) and Does meditation change the brain? Can it slow aging? (Psychology Today)
Good summary of the science of mindfulness (Mindful.org)
June 2011
Towards a Mindful Society - an interview with Jon Kabat Zinn (mindful.org)
All in the Mind: Stress Special (including Mindfulness segment) (BBC Radio 4)
Mindfulness may ease irritable bowel symptoms (Reuters)
Integrative way: Hope for menopausal symptoms (Bellingham Herald)
How to cure shopping addiction (The Guardian)
Mindfulness and Horse therapy for veterans with PTSD (Daily Camera)
How UK musicians are working with mindfulness (Guardian)
Mindfulness can help us make more rational and compassionate financial decisions (Psychology Today)
Mindfulness can help with some menopausal symptoms. (Washington Post)
May 2011
Cancer survivors benefit from meditation: new data (mindful.org)
Mindful meditation might ease irritable bowel syndrome (US News)
Meditation prescribed more often as alternative to conventional medicine, study finds (ABC News)
Mindfulness therapy fights stress and depression by teaching you how to 'own' the present (Daily Telegraph)
April 2011
How meditation may ward off the effects of ageing (The Observer)
Meditation makes people more rational decision-makers (USA Today)
Even beginners can curb pain with meditation (NPR) and Meditation 'better than morphine' at easing pain (Daily Mail)
March 2011
Use mindfulness to manage pain (Irish Independent)
Being Mindful Eases Fear of Death and Dying (Times of India)
February 2011
Meditation beats dance for harmonising body and mind (UC Berkeley News Center)
How meditation helps beat stress by changing patterns of gene activity (The Times of India)
How meditation may change the brain (New York Times)
TV piece on the latest research on mindfulness from Massachussets (Fox News)
Mindfulness therapy puts the focus on improving the quality of body and spirit (Boston Globe)
January 2011
Until there’s a pill, “female Viagra” is all in your head - mindfulness and its impact on sex drive (Gay City News)
Mindfulness meditation may strengthen certain brain regions (wildmind)
Jon Kabat Zinn and others discuss mindfulness (BBC World Service)
Mindfulness therapy can treat anxiety, depression, experts say - latimes.com
December 2010
7 Mindfulness effective for depression (Fox News)
November 2010
11 Is a Wandering Mind an Unhappy One? (Time Magazine)
7 Mindfulness and Ecology, from Always Well Within.
7 Mindfulness for dentists - a resource to ease stress for dentist and patient
5 Meditation benefits linked to telomerase enzyme activity.
4 Huxley's reminder birds - how can we remember to pay attention (RSA blog)
3 Most 'do nothing to counter stress'. And how mindfulness can help...
October 2010
28 Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can (CNN)
18 Sleep school? It worked like a dream...Using mindfulness to work with insomnia
7 In-depth Shambhala Sun interview with Jon Kabat Zinn
2 Fully experiencing the present: a practice for everyone, religious or not. Interview in the LA Times with Jon Kabat-Zinn.
September 2010
29 Troops PTSD may be reduced with mind fitness (mindfulness training)
28 Mindfulness Meditation Helps Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Researchers Say
27 Online mindfulness-based CBT helpful for IBS
23 The Neuroscience of Happiness - excellent descriptions of practices to develop contentment from Buddha's Brain author Rick Hanson.
20 Wellington college extends 'happiness lessons' to parents. Classes to include mindfulness training
16 What Everyone Should Know about How Stress Affects the Brain, and the impact of mindfulness
13 The anti-ageing health benefits of mindfulness meditation
8 On the need for mindful leadership in business
6 New study shows that even brief mindfulness training can reduce people's sense of pain
6 Mindfulness skills useful in addressing ADHD
2 Round-up of the latest mindfulness research studies from Mindful Experience.
August 2010
29 The Mindfulness Chronicles, on Ellen Langer's pioneering research.
29 Meditation acutely improves performance on certain tasks, and may decrease sleep need.
27 Great interview with Thich Nhat Hanh on mindful consumption and sustainability at the Guardian
24 Law School to Cultivate Peaceful and Ethical Lawyers Through 'Mindfulness' Techniques
22 'The Good News About Alzheimer's: How Mindfulness Can Heal Patients and the Ones Who Care for Them'
20 How meditation affects the brain (as compared to relaxation techniques)
10 Meditation Technique Changes Brain, Makes Mind Stronger, and may delay ageing
9 Round-up of the latest mindfulness research studies, from Mindful Experience
5 How Mindfulness Meditation Improves Relationships
4 US Army adopts mindfulness meditation
2 Effects of Brief and Sham Mindfulness Meditation on Mood and Caridovascular variables...
July 2010
31 New Study Investigates Mindfulness Meditation for Alcohol Relapse Prevention
31 Meditation boosts reaction time and reduces the need for sleep
20 Mindfulness training study to help military members combat the mental health effects of war.
19 The busy mind on meditation - Brief sessions can help with dealing with deadlines and pain relief
17 Mindful Motherhood Cassandra Vieten reports on her innovative training program offering stress relief to new moms - from the Greater Good Science Centre
16 The Greater Good Guide to Mindfulness - some great examples of settings where mindfulness is making a difference
16 Meditation helps increase attention span
15 Quiet Justice - Mindfulness in the practice of law
15 Mind/body techniques effective for chronic pain
14 Fine interview with Dan Siegel on mindfulness and the brain.
14 Meditation in the lab - good overview of scientific studies on mindfulness
11 Use your brain to relieve pain - more on mindfulness for pain
9 Meditation rescued me from misanthropy - by Tim Parks (New Statesman)
7 On mindfulness and plain speaking, by Deborah Schoeberlein (Huffington Post)
7 Mindful eaters less likely to be overweight
5 How meditation can develop skills in attention and compassion - first results from the shamatha project
3 'Mind-body' therapy shows promise for fibromyalgia
June 2010
28 Can mindfulness prevent doctors from burning out?
28 Norman Fischer on presenting meditation in Judaism, Zen - and at Google
26 Experience is everything - Piece on Huxley and Perennial Philosphy from Bruce Chilton (Guardian)
17 Meditation Improves Cognitive Skills in Just Four Days
15 Mind Over Matter Meditation: Effective Gene Therapy
14 Interesting piece on mindfulness for sleep - falling awake, perhaps?
4 Researchers see promise in treating addictive behaviors with mindfulness meditation
4 Mummy, can we meditate now? How relaxation exercises can help your child to sleep
3 Meditation reduces the emotional impact of pain - new study from Manchester University
May 2010
26 Want to beat tinnitus? Try meditating for 20 minutes