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Combining the practice with mindfulness is key.
Claims regarding on these apps’ effectiveness are often based on less than robust findings.
Mindfulness, through focused attention meditation, can help overcome repetitive negative thinking, thus improving mental and physical health.
Meditation practices won’t magically transform your life, but they can be effective tools to cope with stress.
Many studies show that consistent meditation practice lowers depression, anxiety and self-criticism.
The focus of suicide prevention is shifting toward protective factors: characteristics that make it less likely that individuals will consider, attempt or die by suicide.
Research is showing that players can use mindfulness techniques to improve the mental resilience required to perform at the highest level.
Mindfulness is everywhere in pop culture today, but that doesn’t mean people agree on what it means.
The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, so you might as well try and enjoy it.
Doing the little things has a role to play in maintaining our sense of happiness as well as in treating mental illness.
Compassionate listening is an overlooked practice, but urgently needed in both interpersonal and political communications.
Looking for sparks between the sheets this Valentine’s Day?
Yoga’s surge in popularity in the past decade has spurred more research into its effects. The combination of physical movement and mindfulness provides a wide range of health benefits.
Mindfulness, one of the most common forms of meditation, is a skill that must be cultivated and practiced. With some training and discipline, it can help anyone live more fully in the moment.
Racial hostility can produce symptoms similar to what soldiers experience as a result of going to war.
Mindfulness can teach us to be more present – not just for ourselves, but also for our colleagues, friends and loved ones.
A look at whether modern Buddhists adhere to the faith’s original religious principles or simply guilty of a cherrypicking cultural appropriation that turns religion into a fad.
People associate mindfulness with yoga and tai chi but meditation is actually closely connected with the most dangerous extreme sports.
Telling new parents to do mindfulness tasks with their five minutes of free time might not be realistic – but adding mindfulness to tasks you’re already doing is just a good use of time.
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Associate Professor, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
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Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State
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NIHR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
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Senior Research Fellow in Mental Health, Victoria University
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Professor, Psychology Department, Bishop's University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
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Professor of Asian History & Health Humanities, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Associate professor in Psychology in Education, University of York
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Reader, Psychology with Outdoor and Adventure studies, Leeds Beckett University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
