Mindfulness Meditation

Can Meditation Change Your Brain And Affect Your Genes?

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living


Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

In last week's blog, Susan Smalley, Ph.D., founder of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA, shared with us her fascinating journey. Af...

Living Meditation: Bringing the Benefits to Daily Life

Kay Goldstein | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living


Kay Goldstein

Living meditation or mindfulness begins by immersing ourselves where we already are and using our present moment and circumstances as our focal point.

Focus on This Play, This Moment: Advice from a Japanese Baseball Team

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living


Susan Kaiser Greenland

Many assume that focusing on the here and now means ignoring the past and the future, but that's not the way it works. Everything that leads up to this very moment is part of now.

5 Mindful Secrets To Optimal Health

US News and World Report | Deborah Kotz | Posted 04.04.2009 | Living


Studies have shown that mindfulness, a form of meditation in which you disengage yourself from strong beliefs, thoughts, and emotions, has a positive ...

Eating Chocolate Mindfully on Valentine's Day

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 03.16.2009 | Living


Dr. Susan Albers

If you crossed chocolate off the list of gifts your sweetie can buy you for Valentine's Day this year, think again. You don't have to avoid chocolat...

Meditation: The New Psychotherapy

New York Times | Benedict Carey | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living


The patient sat with his eyes closed, submerged in the rhythm of his own breathing, and after a while noticed that he was thinking about his troubled ...

Using Nature To Rediscover Intuition

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I just returned from Burlington Vermont where I spent a few days with my son (a student at the University of Vermont) and gave a talk in the Medical S...