Improve Fibromyalgia Symptoms with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness training is a low-cost, side-effect-free addition to fibromyalgia treatment that almost anyone can try — research suggests it helps you improve negative emotions surrounding fibromyalgia pain and, over time, change the way you respond to and think about your fibromyalgia symptoms.” – Madeline Vann […]
Reduce Painful Diabetic Neuropathy with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Meditation techniques can help people struggling with neuropathy symptoms live through their pain. It can help to lower stress, improve your coping skills, and decrease your pain intensity. Taking a mind-body approach is a noninvasive technique that provides you with more control over your […]
Competition for Attention is Responsible for Fluctuations in Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “With so many stimuli competing for attention, any hope for making it through the day without our brains feeling like scrambled eggs rests on being more conscious of how you parse attention over specific tasks.” – Jeremy Hunter […]
Improve Headache Pain with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) can be a safe and effective means of lessening the effect of migraine headache and can be carried out while patients continue to take migraine medication.” – Pauline Anderson Headaches are the most common disorders of the […]
Be Mindful for Improved Psychological Health By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “We’ve seen this in the clinical domain for many years. People, in concert with their physicians… actually going off their medications for pain, for anxiety, for depression, as they begin to learn the self-regulatory elements of mindfulness. They discover that the […]
Improve Cancer Survivor Quality of Life with Exercise or Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “One of the main reasons people with cancer use meditation is to help them to feel better. Meditation can reduce anxiety and stress. It might also help control problems such as: pain, difficulty sleeping, tiredness, feeling sick, high […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “A large part of being a human being is having social, emotional and attention skills and in the majority of schools I visit, we don’t actually teach kids how to pay attention or how to deal with their inner states in a healthy way. We just assume […]
Lessen Fibromyalgia Pain with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “You’ve heard the expression “mind over matter,” but did you know that it’s a tried-and-true approach to easing many conditions, including fibromyalgia?” – Madeline Vann Fibromyalgia is a mysterious disorder whose causes are unknown. It is very common affecting over 5 million […]
Improve Chronic Back Pain with Mindfulness and Cognitive Therapy By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindful mediation is an appealing option for treating your pain because it has an unusual benefit; it places you in a position of control. Unlike pain medications or surgical procedures, meditation is not done to you—but rather it is something you do for yourself.” – […]
Produce Lasting Improvement in Fibromyalgia with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “For the nearly 10 million people who suffer from this condition, the thought of any movement can be overwhelming. What makes yoga perfect though is that it can be adapted for each person’s individual needs. Additionally, yoga’s ability to calm […]