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Lunchtime Mindfulness and Exercise Training have only Weak Benefits for Stress and Mental Health

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Lunchtime Mindfulness and Exercise Training have only Weak Benefits for Stress and Mental Health   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   ”The research is strong for mindfulness’ positive impact in certain areas of mental health, including stress reduction, emotion and attention regulation, reduced rumination, for reducing mild to moderate depression and anxiety, and preventing depressive relapse.” – Kelle Walsh   Over the last several […]

Yoga improves the Immune Response and Chronic Diseases

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Yoga improves the Immune Response and Chronic Diseases   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “yoga can be a helpful way to boost your immune system and decrease inflammation in the body.” – Marlynn Wei   Mindfulness training has been shown to be effective in improving physical and psychological health and particularly with the physical and psychological […]

Improve Borderline Personality Disorder with Mindfulness

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Improve Borderline Personality Disorder with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Mindfulness meditation training may help individuals with BPD be more effective in applying healthy coping skills in the midst of emotional pain. Mindfulness skills allow you to get just a little bit of space to be able to notice the emotion and be […]

Increase Altruism with Mindfulness

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Increase Altruism with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “mindfulness can boost the intention to help others, even at a cost to oneself.” – Hooria Jazaieri   Homo Sapiens is a very successful species. In part its success has been due to it being a very social species. Members of the species form […]