What makes for a successful and fulfilling life? How do we maintain a sense of balance in the face of life’s challenges and difficulties? How do we maintain a sense of who we are and what we consider to be valuable and true when life gets tough? Phillip Moffitt’s wonderful new book Emotional Chaos to [...]
Archive for the ‘Mindfulness’ Category
Emotional Chaos to Clarity
Posted in Happiness, Mindfulness on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An Unhappy Mind is a Wandering Mind
Posted in Happiness, Mindfulness on November 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A human mind is a wandering mind and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind wrote psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University in the Journal Science. According to these researchers, mind-wandering is a human brain’s default mode of operation. Using modern technology, the authors created an iphone app that contacted volunteers at [...]
Name it to tame it
Posted in Mindfulness, Neuroscience, tagged Mindfulness, Neuroscience on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recent scientific studies suggest that people with mindfulness traits have the ability to calm their emotions by naming them. Mindfulness is a process where one is aware and receptive to present moment experiences. In a study conducted by UCLA researchers Matthew Leiberman and David Creswell, subjects in an MRI scanner were shown emotionally expressive faces. [...]
Teach Me to Care and Not to Care
Posted in Mindfulness, tagged Buddhism, Mindfulness on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In his poem, Ash Wednesday, TS Eliot writes, “Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still… These words are like a paradox. How can we care and at the same time not care? We have goals and desires and we want things to be a certain way. What Eliot is [...]
Our Two-Sided Brain
Posted in Mindfulness, Neuroscience, tagged Brain, Mindfulness, Neuroscience on April 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Our brains are composed of a left and right hemisphere connected by the corpus collosum, a small number of neural circuits located deep in the brain where energy and information is sent back and forth between the two sides. The left hemisphere is the more analytical, conceptual, fact based side that loves logical, linear, linguistic and [...]
Curiosity, Openness, Acceptance and Love
Posted in Mindfulness, tagged Brain, Mindfulness, Neuroscience on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Curiosity, Openness, Acceptance and Love (COAL) is an acronym invented by Dr. Daniel Siegel to describe the qualities of mindfulness. Interestingly, COAL are also the qualities present in secure parent/child attachments and between psychotherapist and patient in successful healing outcomes. It is a loving and openly accepting relationship between parent and child that determines how [...]
