Put A Ring On It A smart ring developed by startup Dhyana tracks heart rate variability, revealing how long the wearer spends in a state of focus while meditating. Dhyana partnered with the Indian Olympic Association to provide rings for the entire Indian Olympic team, making it the first meditation device officially used for the Games. Fancy Hat That Reads Your Mind Helmets made by Kernel, a (you guessed it) tech startup, give a front-row seat to the action inside the wearer’s brain....

Here are four tips to start your day that will help you with the inevitable ups and downs that you get handed. Mindful Check-In It’s good to begin the day simply noting where you are starting the day from. How is your body, what emotions are present, is your mind calm or already racing off to work? If you’re lying in your bed, you just note that, getting a sense of the body feels comfortable or tense....

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What is a Death Doula? A death doula is a non-medical support person who serves a dying individual, their loved ones, and/or their caregivers. Prior to medicalization and the emergence of professionalized death care, most people died at home where members of their community or family would tend to them and serve as a peaceful presence. Many people today state they want to be at home, but instead die in hospital beds, their caregivers unequipped to meet their needs or feeling incapable, intimidated, or overwhelmed....

How to Practice Body Scan Meditation The body scan can be performed while lying down, sitting, or in other postures. The steps below are a guided meditation designed to be done while sitting. You can listen to audio of this three-minute guided meditation, produced by UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), in the player; if it doesn’t play, you can find it here or download it from MARC’s website.* Especially for those new to the body scan, we recommend performing this practice with the audio....

Mindful.org spoke to Despard about his journey from plumbing to publishing. I read Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. In that book Jon describes an exercise where you sit on the floor or a chair in a dignified posture, then gently close your eyes and bring your attention to the fact that you are breathing. So I gave it a try. I positioned a chair in the middle of my living room, sat down and tried focusing on my breathing....

In this guided meditation, Sharon Salzberg leads us through a loving-kindness practice for connection and awareness. A Loving-Kindness Meditation for Connection Sit comfortably, or lie down if that’s better for you. You can close your eyes or leave them open. Let your attention settle into your body and start by taking a few deep breaths. Allow your breath to be natural. We’re choosing, as an object of awareness, the silent repetition of certain phrases with ourselves as the first recipient....

For anyone who has experienced depression firsthand, this view may come as a surprise—and a relief. For anyone who’s had a doctor hand over a drug prescription at the slightest sign of the blues, Gordon’s take may seem like heresy. And it’s about time. Depression ranks as the “most disabling of nonfatal conditions in the United States and around the world,” according to Gordon. It is, he says, “the defining disorder of our times....

Perhaps make a commitment to yourself about how you might practice with this in some small way when difficulty arises. Perhaps once a week or once a day, simply bring mindful attention to an experience, or bring the breath your mind when difficulty shows, or shift an attitude, or engage in a different behavior. Whatever you may do, remember that awareness is always a moment away, and mindfulness is portable it can be with us wherever we are, in any moment, at any time....

In his book, 10% Happier, coming out in March, Harris talks about how meditation helped him make changes to keep his life in check. Harris currently works as a co-anchor for ABC’s “Nightline” and is a “Good Morning America” weekend correspondent. From the ABC News Post: Meditation is a tool for taming the voice in your head. You know the voice I’m talking about. It’s what has us constantly ruminating on the past or projecting into the future....

Palmer came across meditation in her twenties after a friend suggested she go to a two-day silent meditation retreat: I can’t say: “Oh my god, it blew my mind, my life was changed forever!” But it created a subtle enough shift to sit and walk and meditate for two full days for me to realise that this was a really important practice, because a lot of little realisations of how I was being mindless in my everyday life came to light....

Well, it’s me. I am in constant battle with speed and anxiety—sure, the sheer velocity of modern life is not easy, but it is the speed of my own mind that is so devastating. It races from thought to fear to idea to doubt to possibility to judgment, all the while trying to absorb endless input from all the screens I’m exposed to: computer, TV, smartphone, iPod, Sonos, and on and on....

NBC has made expanded video from their Holistic Life Foundation shoot available. Watch it, and be inspired, via these links. (Links open in new windows.) Clip One: Taking yoga “beyond bending” Clip Two: Dr: Yoga students respond better to stress Clip Three: Breathe and the madness will go away Visit the Holistic Life Foundation online.

The practice of mindfulness allows us to create space around such moments, to approach them with a kind curiosity to consider the range of responses available to us in any moment. The responsive breathing space practice is intended to help us do just that. read more Tara Healey September 15, 2020 Elisha Goldstein October 11, 2018

Teen Angst Parents can often find aggressive behavior of their children and teens to be challenging. Although there are a number of studies examining whether mindfulness- based interventions (MBIs) can help curb aggressive youth behavior, the research is in its early stages. Scientists in China examined 18 studies of 1,223 young people to better under- stand the impact of MBIs on youth aggression. Studies included 3 randomized controlled trials, 7 experimental studies, and 8 studies that looked at changes in a few individuals over time....

Yes, I wrote a children’s book, The Monster Parade, using this analogy. In fact, I often use it myself, which is where the idea came from in the first place. Seeing my emotions as monster-like creatures that are passing by in a parade has been a powerful and incredibly helpful practice. First, this practice supports us in seeing that our emotions are not personal. I am not my emotions, and you are not yours....

We were about to give up on the head and then the page designer moved the words “on the road” down a line. “Still” stayed on top and suddenly it said it all about Pico’s message. The headline also was now the same shape as the roofs of the pagodas on either side, and the roadway in the picture emerged out of the words “on the road.” These are the sort of subtleties we perceive subliminally as we cast our eye on a page....

The water cycle graphic lets you take a moment to think about the cycles of the planet—and how often are we asked to think about our relationship to nature when we’re on the computer? The average American spends 90% of his or her time indoors, according to a 2009 report from the Environmental Protection Agency. An immense statistic that is explored in the June issue of Mindful. This collection of articles from the Mindful....

At study’s end, adults in the MT group reported being better able to manage their emotions and showed greatly improved information-processing speed compared to the other two groups. These results are promising, as the mindfulness exercises used can be practiced regardless of physical ability, making them easily accessible to most people with MS. Mindfulness Beats Breast Cancer Survivors’ Insomnia The stress following a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment can lead to sleep troubles....