Improve Mental Health in Older Adults with Mental Health Problems with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “You can think of emotional regulation like stopping a train—it works better if you can stop before the train (your emotions) starts rolling too fast. It also helps when your brakes work immediately, without interference. Mindfulness […]
Improve Executive and Emotional Control of Grief with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness for grief is not about whitewashing your pain, or “getting over” your loss. It is about learning how to stay present, cultivate compassion, and make wise choices that will help you cope with this new normal known […]
Improve Prisoner Mental Health with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “It is truly within the reach of anyone to create an environment in which kindness and resilience can flourish. Even the most powerless among us—prisoners—have the ability to live mindfully and treat others with kindness and respect. In doing so, they […]
Reduce Anxiety and Depression with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Being unwilling to experience negative thoughts, feelings, or sensations is often the first link in a mental chain that can lead to automatic, habitual, and critical patterns of mind becoming re-established. By accepting unpleasant experiences, we can shift our attention to […]
Reduce Psychological Distress and Improve Emotion Regulation with Online Mindfulness Training By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindful emotion regulation represents the capacity to remain mindfully aware at all times, irrespective of the apparent valence or magnitude of any emotion that is experienced. It does not entail suppression of the emotional experience, nor any […]
Improve Psychological Health with Mindfulness and Present Moment Savoring By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “when suffering causes someone to “have a fixed and negative view of themselves … or their circumstances, mindfulness can help give them access to a different perspective, helps them open to other possibilities, and enhances resilience and their […]
Improve Psychological Well-Being with a Mindfulness Smartphone Ap By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “When it comes to building a mindfulness meditation practice, “there’s no substitute for a live connection with a teacher — and encouragement from a group or class. But for people who have already taken a class or been introduced […]
Measure Mindfulness Better in Depressed Patients with Changes in the EEG By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “as the popularity of mindfulness grows, brain imaging techniques are revealing that this ancient practice can profoundly change the way different regions of the brain communicate with each other – and therefore how we think – […]
Mindfulness Improves Psychological and Physical Health in South Africans By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) can be seen as a public health intervention, designed to over time move the bell curve of society as a whole toward greater health.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness training has been shown to […]
Rumination and Worry Interfere with the Development of Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Worry and rumination are forms of persistent negative thinking. They involve a predominance of verbal thoughts, and can be likened to a negative inner-speech. Worry is concerned with the possibility of threats in the future and ways to […]