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This is Your Brain on Meditation | Philadelphia Science Festival
"This is Your Brain on Meditation: The Benefits of Mindfulness"Denise Clegg, MAPPMeditation and mindfulness practices have been associatedwith a wide range of mental and physical benefits. But what is...
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Loving-Kindness Meditation Practice Associated with Longer Telomeres in Women...
ABSTRACT: Relatively short telomere length may serve as a marker of accelerated aging, and shorter telomeres have been linked to chronic stress. Specific lifestyle behaviors that can mitigate the...
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Database of Peer-Reviewed Contemplative Teaching and Learning Articles
The Contemplative Teaching and Learning (CTL) Initiative of the GarrisonInstitute has launched a searchable database of peer-reviewedarticles on K-12 contemplative education. A free, publicly...
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On Borges, Particles and the Paradox of the Perceived | The Stone, New York...
How can science, philosophy and a work of pure imagination meet to deepen our understanding of the physical world? Referring to a character in a Jorge Luis Borges' short story, philosopher William...
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Special Issue on Mindfulness Neuroscience | Social Cognitive and Affective...
From Editorial by Yi-Yuan Tang and Michael I Posner: Mindfulness neuroscience is a new, interdisciplinary field of mindfulness practice and neuroscientific research; it applies neuroimaging techniques,...
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Meditation Health Benefits: What the Practice Does to Your Body
"We hear it all the time: Meditation can improve our creative thinking, our energy, stress levels and even our success... Studies show that meditation is associated with improvement in a variety of...
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Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ |...
The philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about his 16th book, “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking,” which W.W. Norton is publishing next week... The mind? A collection of computerlike...
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The Compassionate Mind | Observer
Decades of clinical research has focused and shed light on the psychology of human suffering. That suffering, as unpleasant as it is, often also has a bright side to which research has paid less...
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Yoga From a Scientific Perspective | NCCAM
The 2007 National Health Interview Survey found that yoga is one of the top 10 complementary health approaches used among U.S. adults. An estimated 6 percent of adults used yoga for health purposes in...
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Now Accepting Submissions: The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry
The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry is a new peer-reviewed, scholarly journal for all those who design, research, teach, and assess contemplative and introspective methods and practices in college and...
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What Does Science Teach Us About Well-Being?
Distinguished contemplative neuroscientist Richie Davidson on well-being: "It is my fervent aspiration that our culture will pay more attention to well-being, will include strategies to promote...
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Contemplating David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water"
A clever film adaptation of David Foster Wallace's commencement speech to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College went viral this week (http://www.theglossary.com/). The filmmakers, known as The...
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Contemplative Computing | Guardian
"What if there were a way to use the internet – and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles – to foster rather than erode our attention spans, and to replace that sense...
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Emotion regulation choice: Selecting between cognitive regulation strategies...
"Consider the anger that arises in a heated argument with your romantic partner, or the dreadful anxious anticipation in the dentist's waiting room prior to a root canal procedure. Our daily lives are...
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Can Meditation Change Your Genes?
""CHANGE YOUR GENES! THROUGH MEDITATION!” It really does sound like an infomercial, doesn’t it? Another gimmicky health ad from Ms. HydroxyCut or Mr. 5-Hour-Energy. But before you roll your eyes,...
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Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering |...
ABSTRACT: Compassion is a key motivator of altruistic behavior, but little is known about individuals’ capacity to cultivate compassion through training. We examined whether compassion may be...
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Insular Cortex Mediates Increased Pain Tolerance in Yoga Practitioners |...
ABSTRACT: Yoga, an increasingly popular discipline among Westerners, is frequently used to improve painful conditions. We investigated possible neuroanatomical underpinnings of the beneficial effects...
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Brain can be trained in compassion - free download of trainings used in study
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior. A...
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10,000 Hours May Not Make a Master After All | TIME.com
"There are many roads to greatness, but logging 10,000 hours of practice to help you perfect a skill may not be sufficient. Based on research suggesting that practice is the essence of genius,...
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Real-time fMRI links subjective experience with brain activity during focused...
ABSTRACT: Recent advances in brain imaging have improved the measure of neural processes related to perceptual, cognitive and affective functions, yet the relation between brain activity and...
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Interview with Robert Burton, author of A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind | Brain...
Brain Science podcast host, Ginger Campbell, MD, interviews Robert Burton, neurologist and writer on his latest book: "In On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not Robert Burton...
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With Alzheimer's Comes Empathy
"When you hear Alzheimer's, you probably think of memory loss, language problems, and general confusion. These cognitive symptoms of the degenerative brain disease are devastating, and so it makes...
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Tickets available: 1st European Symposium for Contemplative Studies
The Mind and Life Europe Symposium for Contemplative Studies will bring together academics and other interested attendees for presentations, discussions, and collaborative networking in the emerging...
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Multisystem Resiliency Moderates the Major Depression-Telomere Length...
ABSTRACT: Major depressive disorder has been associated with reduced leukocyte telomere length (LTL). It is not known, however, whether psychosocial and behavioral protective factors moderate this...
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Contemplative Science Job Board
Want a new job in the contemplative sciences? Have a job that you want to advertise to find the best candidates? Mind and Life introduces its new job board. We get the sense that this will be a...
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Judge says yoga does not promote Hinduism in California schools
A judge has refused to block yoga from being taught in a California school district, dismissing a claim by a small group of parents who want to end the classes because they think yoga promotes...
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Save the Date: 2nd International Symposium for Contemplative Studies
The International Symposium for Contemplative Studies brings together leading academics and other interested attendees for presentation, discussion, and collaborative networking in the fields of...
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The Morality of Meditation
"MEDITATION is fast becoming a fashionable tool for improving your mind. With mounting scientific evidence that the practice can enhance creativity, memory and scores on standardized intelligence...
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Neuroscientists and the Dalai Lama Swap Insights on Meditation | Scientific...
Neuroscientist Christof Koch shares his impressions following a recent weeklong exchange between western scientists and the Tibetan Buddhist monastic community living in exile at Drepung Monastery in...
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Meditation: It’s Not What You Think
"Do you have family, friends, colleagues who say they just can't meditate? Mind and Life's resident neuroscientist Wendy Hasenkamp explores the popular misconceptions surrounding meditation, and the...
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