Improve Smoking Abstinence with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness training (MT) may decouple the association between craving and smoking, thus facilitating smoking cessation.” – J. Kim Pemberthy “Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States.” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). So, […]
Reduce Stress at Work with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “I think of mindfulness as the ability not to be yanked around by your own emotions. That can have a big impact on how you are in the workplace.” – Dan Harris Work is very important for our health and […]
Improve Psychological Well-Being at Work with a Mindfulness App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness is not about living life in slow motion. It’s about enhancing focus and awareness both in work and in life. It’s about stripping away distractions and staying on track with individual, as well as organizational, goals.” Jacqueline Carter […]
Monitoring and Acceptance of the Present Moment Underlies Mindfulness’ Improving of Positive Emotions By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “developing an orientation of acceptance toward present-moment experiences is a central mechanism of mindfulness interventions for boosting positive emotions in daily life.” – Emily Lindsay Mindfulness practice has been shown to improve emotions and their regulation. […]
Enhance Enjoyment of the (Winter Solstice) Holidays with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Any picture-perfect image of the holidays we build up in our minds, filled with expectations of how life should be, rarely gets met for long..” – Mark Bertin The end of December marks transitions. It marks the […]
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 […]
Mindfulness Therapies May Be Cost-Effective for the Treatment of Mental Illness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “[Mindfulness] is a cost-saving alternative to treatment as usual over the trial duration from both a healthcare and a societal perspective for patients with a diagnosis of depression, anxiety or stress and adjustment disorders.” – Sanjib […]
Improve Psychological Well-Being of Recovered Cardiorespiratory Patients with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Meditation can be a useful part of cardiovascular risk reduction. I do recommend it, along with diet and exercise. It can also help decrease the sense of stress and anxiety.” – Deepak Bhatt Patients who experience cardiorespiratory […]
Improve Weight-Related Eating Behaviors with a Mindfulness App By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “a slower, more thoughtful way of eating could help with weight problems and maybe steer some people away from processed food and unhealthy choices.” – Harvard Health Eating is produced by two categories of signals. Homeostatic signals emerge […]
Reduce Cell Phone Dependence in Adolescents with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “With its emphasis on harnessing attention with intention (i.e. redirecting it on purpose), mindfulness—with all its scientifically-established health and well-being benefits—has the potential to keep us from drifting hopelessly away from one another. Perhaps it can keep us connected, […]