-Medical and Non-medical Applications - Mindfulness Online Course Thanh V. Huynh MD, John A. Burns School of Medicine (Departments of Surgery and Complementary & Alternative Medicine), and Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i; Carolyn Gotay PhD, Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i; Gabriela Layi MA, Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i; Susan Garrard BA, Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i Abstract This paper focuses on a promising health care intervention—mindfulness meditation—that is the subject of considerable and increasing interest. Introduction. There is an increasing volume of peer reviewed literature reporting the use of mindfulness meditation in medical settings. Mindfulness meditation is derived from ancient Buddhist practices and tenets. Although mindfulness-based interventions rely on meditation techniques to teach the necessary skills for evoking mindfulness, this mode of awareness is not limited to meditation (i.e., sitting in one spot for a prolonged period).
Free Practical Audio Exercises Printer-friendly versionSend by email Six ACT Conversations These audio files are easy-to-understand, excellent resources for walking through the ACT model step-by-step and learning how to apply it to your life. Each segment consists of multiple parts, so you may wish to do a little bit of the exercises at a time. Visit 6 ACT Conversations at RMIT University in Australia for more information. Mindfulness Practice Exercises There are several exercises recorded as mp3 or other audio files available for free download. Meditation: There May Be No Better Time Than Now. « Spacesuit Yoga For those who have been following the Mumbai Siege and the news on the New York Wal-Mart mob murder, I suspect you are as stunned and horrified by the tragedy and madness of late. These are (sigh)… challenging times. Yet in today’s edition of The New York Times‘ Week in Review, we read the following: ‘No matter how stressful the conditions, some of us are just genetically inclined towards calm…. or else we learn to manage the neuroticism.’ I’m not sure claims of suffering from high level cortical stress count in a case of neuroticism. One might think this is all a chicken or egg question, but as contemporary neuroscience makes clear, stress–-be it PTSD, sudden shock or chronic stress endured by those in untenable situations–shuts down thinking. In weighing the options, meditation seems to make a difference, both in reducing stress and in creating some powerful neurological grown patterns. QuBitTechnologies, 2007 May the breath be with you. Dr. Like this: Like Loading...
ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Shame Self Criticism and Self Compassion Download Episode Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that has been said to be the biggest causes of emotional problems: Shame. Today you are going to get the chance to talk to one of the few people who has studied shame and done it from an ACT perspective, Dr Jason Luoma. One Half Of Adult Depression Cases Originate In Adolescence Researchers at Bangor and Oxford Universities have discovered that almost 50 percent of adults suffering from clinical depression have had their first encounter with this particular problem in adolescence, noting that lately depression is more commonly found between the ages of 13 and 15. Professor Mark Williams from the Oxford University says that depression cases are increasingly found in teenage patients, unlike several decades ago when depression was mostly observed in middle-aged patients. The appearance of depression in younger patients has turned depression into an important health problem in the past few years. Depression The current study was conducted on 275 patients who were experiencing recurring episodes of depression. Researchers tried to discover a correlation between the age of patients when they first became affected by depression and the appearance of mental health problems later in life. Researchers say that depression is known for its recurrence. Like this:
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How Exercise Fuels the Brain Shannon Stapleton/ReutersDoes exercise keep your brain running? Moving the body demands a lot from the brain. Exercise activates countless neurons, which generate, receive and interpret repeated, rapid-fire messages from the nervous system, coordinating muscle contractions, vision, balance, organ function and all of the complex interactions of bodily systems that allow you to take one step, then another. This increase in brain activity naturally increases the brain’s need for nutrients, but until recently, scientists hadn’t fully understood how neurons fuel themselves during exercise. Now a series of animal studies from Japan suggest that the exercising brain has unique methods of keeping itself fueled. For many years, scientists had believed that the brain, which is a very hungry organ, subsisted only on glucose, or blood sugar, which it absorbed from the passing bloodstream. That’s where the Japanese researchers came in.
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