Improve Emotion Regulation and Well-Being During Covid-19 with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “A mindfulness practice can help us connect with awareness and let things come and go without our attention getting stuck on it. It can also help us make better choices. Between the emotion and the action, there is […]
Improve Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Children with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Teaching mindfulness to kids can also help shape three critical skills developed in early childhood: paying attention and remembering information, shifting back and forth between tasks, and behaving appropriately with others.” – Christopher Willard Childhood is a […]
Focused Meditation Changes Brain Activity Differently Then Open Monitoring Meditation By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “It’s like asking a sport expert ‘what does sport do to your body’. The expert would say, do you mean swimming or horse-riding? You can imagine mental training being as complex.” – Tanya Meditation training has been […]
Improve Adolescent Psychological Well-Being with Meditation By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “with all the uncertainty in the world right now, teens can definitely benefit from taking time to quiet the noise and meditate. It’s a handy practice that can help them through all kinds of confusing and stressful situations in life.” – […]
Different Meditation Types Alter Brain Connectivity Patters Differently Over the Long Term By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “[Meditation], regardless of each individual’s chosen object of attention, increases functional connectivity within attentional networks as well as increases connectivity across distributed brain regions serving attention, self-referential, and visual processes.” – Zongpai Zhang There […]
Relieve Loneliness with Meditation By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “When we can rest in the middle [of meditation], we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.” – Pema Chodron Humans are social animals. We are generally […]
Meditation Reduces the Complexity of Brain Activity By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “What happens in your brain when you meditate. . . The overall difference is that our brains stop processing information as actively as they normally would.” – Belle Beth Cooper Meditation training has been shown to improve health and well-being. It has also […]
Improve Attention, Memory, and Emotions with Meditation By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “meditating can change the structure and function of the brain through relaxation, which can: Reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, Increase focus and learning concentration, Improve memory and attention span, Build stronger immune system and greater physical/psychological resilience, Allow better sleep” […]
Improve Psychological Well-Being and Emotion Regulation with a Mindfulness Smartphone App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “We know that the effect of this pandemic on people’s mental health is huge. . . Through the app . . You are led through a multi-sensory process of imagining yourself in a particular situation. . […]
Lower Cardiovascular Disease Risk by Improving Emotion Regulation with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “People who meditate regularly reported feeling more balanced and less stressed, and . . . improved the outcomes when they were added to cardiac rehabilitation programmes for patients with CHD.” – Heart Matters Cardiovascular disease is […]