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Mindfulness and Strong Emotions

5/27/2016

Why do some things just really seem to irritate of us?  For most of us, there are certain actions that others can take that automatically elicit, or “trigger”, strong reactions.…

JAMA Article Highlights Promise of Mindfulness Meditation as an Alternative to Drugs for Treating Pain as Efforts to Limit Opioid Prescribing Increase

5/27/2016

The current opioid epidemic has taken a great toll in the Unites States, with drug overdoses deaths doubling between 2000 and 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and…

April Monthly Musing

4/29/2016

We all have innumerable opportunities to practice mindfulness every day, and we can choose to bring present moment awareness to more of the things we do.  One of the opportunities many of…

Why MBSR and MBCT? A Scientific Perspective

3/29/2016

There has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness recently, and mindfulness principals are now being applied in medicine, law, business, education and leadership among other areas. Much of this…

Mindfulness-Based Meditation To Decrease Stress And Anxiety In College Students

2/28/2016

Researchers from Saint Louis University conducted a review of the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation in reducing stress among college students.  They identified 57 studies that addressed this question.  Anxiety was…

Mindfulness-Based Meditation To Decrease Stress And Anxiety In College Students

2/28/2016

Researchers from Saint Louis University conducted a review of the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation in reducing stress among college students.  They identified 57 studies that addressed this question.  Anxiety was…

Mindfulness Renewal

2/10/2016

A Class for Past Mindfulness Participants If you’d like to jumpstart, renew or deepen a personal practice of mindfulness, this four-week course is designed for anyone who has taken an…

Mindfulness, Compassion, and Difficult Emotions

2/10/2016

Workshop - Retreat In this experiential workshop-retreat, explore how to traverse the terrain of difficult emotions through mindfulness, presence, and compassion.  Popular mindfulness instructor Susan Carol Stone will guide you…

Mindfulness in Education

2/10/2016

A large body of research has shown the value of bringing mindfulness and other meditative practices into the educational arena, both for the student as well as the teacher. Being…