Atención plena - Mindfulness

Why the secret of life remains in the living.

"The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world,

A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation may improve test scores by enabling students to recognize random thinking and refocus on the immediate ask before them.

I recently had the pleasant surprise of receiving a copy of Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hahn’s latest book, Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning Each Hour of the Day from the publisher, Parallax Press...

Mindfulness, or being fully present and attentive to the moment, not only improves the way doctors engage with patients but also mitigates the stresses of clinical practice.

For many educators, helping students direct their own learning is a priority. Educator and author Alan November, who has been talking about ways to get studen

In this excerpt from his new book, The Joy Compass, Donald Altman offers an exercise for focusing the mind during stressful times.

Drug addiction, pregnancy prevention, and eating disorders are all part of the curriculum in the high school health education class I teach. As attention-getting as those topics may be, I like to sta

The forests that surround our village here in Nara, Japan are filled with beautiful bamboo. The practical, aesthetic, and spiritual significance of bamboo is deeply embedded in Japanese culture. Th...

The morning is a critical time for setting the tone of your day. You can start out of the gate frenzied, frantic, and flummoxed or confident, cheerful, and calm. Which way sounds more appealing to you?

Why the secret of life remains in the living.

"The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world,

The Buddha, a two-hour documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion.

The vocabulary of meditation can be a barrier for people who feel that they're entering a strange world, experts say. Here are some common words.

A paper published in  Psychological Science in the Public Interest  has evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.  The report is quite a heavy document so...

Flickr:Neeta Lind There's no question that for both kids and adults, our attention is divided. Texts, emails, Twitter, Facebook are all chiming, ringing,

Empezamos esta semana un especial de dos partes en donde hablaremos del mindfulness o atención plena, un recurso heredado de la tradición budista y...