Improve the Psychological Health of Obstetrics and Gynecology Patients during Covid-19 with a Mindfulness App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness meditation might be a viable low-cost intervention to mitigate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis and future pandemics.” – Julie Lei Zhu Mindfulness training has been shown to improve health and well-being in healthy […]
Mindfulness Improve Social Media Control While Social Media Control Improves Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “social media overuse is increasingly commonplace today, and it may have some serious repercussions to your physical and mental health.” – Kristeen Cherney Over the last few decades, the internet has gone from a rare curiosity […]
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 […]
Improve Executives’ Attitudes Toward Work with a Mindfulness App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindful working means applying focus and awareness to everything you do from the moment you enter the office. Focus on the task at hand and recognize and release internal and external distractions as they arise. In this way, mindfulness helps increase […]
Improve Sleep in People with Sleep Disturbance with a Meditation App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Sufficient sleep heals our bodies and minds, but for many reasons sleep doesn’t always come easily. Mindfulness practices and habits can help us fall asleep and stay asleep.” – Mindful Modern society has become more […]
Improve Autonomic Nervous System Function Reducing Stress with Online Mindfulness Training By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Research has found that meditation can positively affect a measure of heart health known as heart rate variability (HRV). HRV reflects how quickly your heart makes small changes in the time interval between each heartbeat. A […]
Reduce the Impact of Problematic Social Media Use on Depression During the Covid-19 Pandemic with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Social media addiction is becoming an increasing problem. . . Mindfulness is a training that helps us become more present, self aware and better able to respond rather than react on […]
Change the Brain with Mindfulness Apps By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Rather than treating the usage of smartphones and mindfulness as oxymorons, we should consider ways to use our smartphones as a tool to aid our mindfulness practices.” – Courtney Ackerman Mindfulness training has been shown through extensive research to be effective […]
Reduce Internet Addiction with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “teaching teens to be mindful—through exercises or school programs—might help prevent and treat our modern digital obsession.” – Kira Newman Over the last few decades, the internet has gone from a rare curiosity to the dominant mode of electronic communications. In fact, it has […]
Improve the Mental Health of Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Cancer Patients with a Mindfulness App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Results show promise for mindfulness-based interventions to treat common psychological problems such as anxiety, stress, and depression in cancer survivors and to improve overall quality of life.” — Linda E. Carlson “Myeloproliferative Neoplasms […]