Decrease Teacher Stress and Improve Mental Health with a 4-Day Intensive Mindfulness Program By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “when teachers practice mindfulness, students’ misbehavior and other stressors become like water off a duck’s back, allowing them to stay focused on what teachers really want to do: teach.” – Vickie Zakrzewski Stress […]
Reduce Smartphone Addiction and Improve Stress Coping in Adolescents with Meditation By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “over a third of us check our phones in the middle of the night. And a further third check our phones within five minutes of waking up. The same survey also revealed that about a third […]
Improve Primary School Students’ Attention and Behavior with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “For kids who have suffered from prolonged stress or trauma, mindfulness seems to offer a way of “short-circuiting” the fight-or-flight response. It helps kids with the greatest self-regulation challenges adapt to slower, more methodical classroom settings.” – Amanda […]
Reduce Stress and Increase Self-Compassion in Medical Students with Online Mindfulness Training By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “What we found should encourage even the busiest medical students and physicians. There are shorter, sustainable ways to bring meditation into your life, and they can help you reduce stress and depression and improve your […]
Improve Psychological Need Satisfaction in School Students with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness does much more than just create a positive classroom culture. Some of the purported benefits of mindfulness include decreasing stress and anxiety, improving self-esteem and self-regulation, and increasing calm.” – Lily Jones Adolescence is a time of mental, […]
Reduce Stress and Improve the Psychological Health of Teachers with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness training for teachers can help them cope better with stress on the job while also making the classroom environment more productive for learning.” – Jill Suttie Stress is epidemic in the western workplace with […]
Lower College Student Stress Levels and Increase Self-Compassion with a Mindfulness Mobile App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness intervention can help reduce distress levels in college students during a stressful exam week, as well as increase altruistic action in the form of donating to charity.” – AMRA In the modern […]
Reduce Psychological Distress Produced by Critical Thinking with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The most active form of developing critical thinking is through meditation. Meditation makes you exercise control of mind over matter. Your mind becomes an active place for several activities such as: cleansing of mind from rubbish which may […]
Reduce Teacher Stress and Burnout with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness programs in the workplace may help employees better deal with stress, and develop the ability to observe negative emotions and automatic thought patterns and behaviors, and remain calm, present, self-aware and alert, rather than succumbing to the slippery slope […]
Shift Work Increases Stress, Psychopathology, and Family Conflict and Less Mindful Parenting By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “When you work at night, you’re cut off from friends and family, you have little social support, your diet may not be as healthy.” – David Ballard Work is very important for our health and well-being. […]