“Through Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Stress Reduction, Neuroplasticity”
Curated by
Kate Crisp
Many of Buddhism’s core tenets significantly overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right? 
A new study from Yale University gives scientists a window into the meditating mind, providing evidence that the practice appears to change the way the brain works and could give meditators a leg up when it comes to dealing with mental disorders. 
The technique known as compassion meditation can help individuals relieve stress that has been linked to depression and a number of medical illnesses. Furthermore, scientist believe the technique may reduce inflammation and improve behavioral response to stress. Via awarenessinaction 
Finding focus is rapidly becoming the biggest workplace challenge. We highlight a handful of apps to help cure internet addictions and better manage your time. Excerpt from the new DVD: Mindfulness and Authenticity - Foundations for Leadership by Alan Sloan. Published by ALIA Institute, to be released in July 2011. ... 
The international program shows young people how to build character — improving and strengthening themselves so that they can then change their world. 
“Just as an untamed elephant can do damage, trampling crops and injuring people, so the untamed, capricious mind can cause harm to us and those around... Barbara Fredrickson describes how people can change on a fundamental level by changing how they interpret their lot in life. Daniel Siegel talks with Christine Carter about how mindsight relates to emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and mindfulness. |
Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital find that participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. 
A new paper has come out in the November issue of Perspectives in Psychological Science - Mechanisms of Mindfulness – Deconstructing the concept into psychological and neurobiological terms Via awarenessinaction
Mind Fitness Training Institute
The Institute teaches Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)
Amazon.com: Your Brain at Work eBook: David Rock: Kindle Store... 
Mindfulness Research Guide is a comprehensive electronic resource and publication database that provides information to researchers, practitioners, and the general public on the scientific study of mindfulness and hosts the Mindfulness Research... 
Mark Changizi reviews Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn by Cathy N. Davidson. Via Beth Kanter For most of his life, 24-year-old Steven Bringas so feared humiliating himself if he spoke that only an emergency would get him to enter a store. 
Our goal is to move beyond cooker-cutter curriculum and scripting and discuss real world approaches to making mindfulness practice relevant to at-risk youth using language and metaphors they can understand and connect with. What does neuroscience and increased sales have to do with each other? It seems more than we would think. 
Brain imaging studies looking at rationality found very different responses between Buddhist meditators and other participants. 
Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. |
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