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Mindfulness: a multi-part definition, part 1
So what is mindfulness anyway? Let’s ask the experts. Jon Kabat-Zinn, who is often credited with bringing mindfulness to medicine and health says: Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment...
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Mindfulness: a multi-part defintion, part 2
In the first part of this definition series, I gave you a pithy explanation from a Westerner. In this part, I’m going with Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen monk and strong advocate of mindfulness. In...
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Mindfulness: a multi-part definition, part 3
The last definition entry may have sounded a little overwhelming. So, here, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse offers us some reassurance: Awareness doesn’t prevent you from living, it makes living that much...
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Mindfulness: a multi-part definition, part 4
Saki Santorelli provides a more detailed definition of mindfulness elsewhere in Heal Thy Self, but for right now, I really like this one: …a disciplined way of learning to pay attention to all that is...
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Mindfulness: a multi-part definition, part 5
In The Mindful Way Through Anxiety, Susan Orsillo PhD, and Lizabeth Roemer, PhD, define mindfulness as: …a specific way of paying atttention to things. It involves purposefully expanding your...
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Science News: 8 Weeks of Mindfulness Meditation Changes Brain’s Gray Matter
Every once in a while, research on mindfulness gets mainstream press coverage. Not only is mindfulness therapy not a fad, according to the LA Times, but in even wider national coverage, scientists at...
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Science News: Mindfulness Meditation Changes Brain’s Gray Matter, part 2
Even the New York Times has gotten in on the act. Today they published an article titled How Meditation May Change the Brain on their Well Blog. Hasn’t quite hit the main paper yet, but it’s still...
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