Mindful Eating: An Effective Method for Generating True Health and Happiness
8/18/2021
“The Weight-Loss Industry Is Coming for Our Post-Lockdown Bodies”. This was the title of a recent New York Times article in which the author outlined ways in which the multi-billion-dollar diet industry is devising new tactics to persuade us to buy products that promise quick weight loss and happiness. The problem with restrictive diets and weight-loss products is that, while they may bring about rapid weight loss, they are not sustainable. Most people regain the lost weight and return to mindless eating habits. Furthermore, the weight loss industry seduces us into believing that weight loss, at any cost, is the path to achieving happiness. Worse, they teach us to distrust the very best tool we have; ourselves and our own awareness of what our body wants and needs.
7/26/2021
The UVA Mindfulness Center is Helping Network2Work@PVCC Provide Skills for Job Seekers The UVA Mindfulness Center is partnering with Network2Work@PVCC () to teach stress management skills to individuals seeking employment…
7/23/2021
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training Can Improve Menopause-Specific Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women Physical and psychological changes in postmenopausal women can affect their quality of life. The purpose of this…
The Benefits of Practicing Awareness When Rushing
7/23/2021
In coming out of a pandemic where life slowed down a bit, have you noticed now all the rushing? How much we rush through life, getting on to the “next” thing? Hurrying through, while attempting to take care of something else? My mother hung a quote on the kitchen wall, “The hurrier I go the behinder I get.” Research seems to indicate this is probably true. Excessive hurrying ends up in worrying. For example, if you are in a fast-paced job and you need to get home at a certain time, you may find yourself hurrying through your day. Yet later, you may find yourself worrying when you get home. Worrying about missing an important detail? Now you find yourself spending more time at home re-checking your day’s work.
6/28/2021
Introduction to Mindfulness Course Held for Local Business The UVA Mindfulness Center offers custom mindfulness programs to organizations and businesses, and recently held an Introduction to Mindfulness course for FM…
6/24/2021
Effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Fatigue in Cancer Survivors This study was designed to determine the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in improving fatigue-related outcomes in adult cancer survivors. Twenty-three…
6/24/2021
May I be happy. May I be healthy in mind and body. May I be safe and free from inner and outer harm. May I find peace, as my life shifts and changes. The Lovingkindness Meditation is a way to tap into lovingkindness, extending wishes to ourselves for our own wellbeing. Lovingkindness is an innate quality that is already in us all. It can become clouded at times through the culture we find ourselves in and from not feeling “good enough”, whether this comes from within ourselves or from the systems we encounter- media, technology, the current culture of perfectionism or even the style of a work culture. Many of us find it easy to be loving towards others but find it almost impossible to be as kind to ourselves. So, why is it that we are so hard on ourselves?
The Mindful Pause is Pausing for the Summer
5/20/2021
The Mindful Pause, a 15-minute daily live virtual meditation, is taking a break for the summer. The Pause was begun to offer a respite from the stresses of dealing with…
5/20/2021
A Mindfulness-Based Intervention for ICU Nurses Can Decrease Occupational Burnout Nurses who work in intensive care units have a high prevalence of occupational burnout. The purpose of this study was…
5/20/2021
“...the time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror… You will love again the stranger who was yourself.” ~Love After Love~ by Derek Walcott As I read these words, I am struck at the lovingkindness message of this poem. It is a poem that we use often in our Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction classes as we begin together in the journey of self-care. In Saki Santorelli’s book, Heal Thyself, he writes, “within every healthcare practitioner lives the Wounded One; in every patient, every sick and suffering human being, abides a powerful Inner Healer. These are the gifts of being born into this world”. We all carry wounds, scars, misperceptions, and frequently we end up directing harsh judgments at ourselves and others. Yet we also carry within ourselves a powerful inner healer where lovingkindness dwells.
