Improve Dementia Patient Caregiver Mental Health and Reduce Stress with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “To my mother, I owe the experience of being with her since the beginning of her dementia, and the ability to notice what a difference mindfulness practice made in our relationship. From feeling only grief, to […]
A Pilot Study of Mindfulness Training for the Cognitive and Psychological Symptoms with Multiple Sclerosis By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness practice appears to be a safe, drug-free approach to coping with stress and anxiety, which may in turn help reduce your MS symptoms.” Amit Sood Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a […]
Improve Teachers’ Coping with Stress and Emotion Regulation with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “For me, it’s important to be very familiar with the subject matter before I teach it. . . It’s the same with meditation. Before I began consciously bringing mindfulness into the classroom, I needed to feel like […]
Improve Bipolar Disorder with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness looks like a potentially effective way of managing bipolar disorder, especially the depressive pole, which may be the most difficult to treat with medication alone. Mindfulness exercises and meditations are useful for people with bipolar disorder (manic depression) because mindfulness decreases […]
Improve Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Combat Veterans with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness-based approaches have been shown to be useful for problems commonly seen in trauma survivors such as anxiety and hyperarousal. Mindfulness practice has potential to be of benefit to individuals with PTSD, either as a tertiary or a […]
Reduce Fatigue with Breast Cancer with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Yoga works on the principle of mind and body health and it would help women cope with systemic therapy side effects better. Yoga nidra and pranayama also improve sleep patterns. Thus, all this together may reduce fatigue and pain.” – […]
Improve Opiate Relief of Low Back Pain with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “I’ve been doing research on back pain for 30 years. The biggest revolution has been the understanding that it’s not just a physical problem with physical solutions. It’s a biopsychosocial problem.” – Daniel Cherkin Low Back Pain […]
Improve Prisoner Mental Health with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Through meditation, prisoners come to recognize their conditioning as their own and take responsibility for it, and ultimately step outside of it so their thoughts and actions can come from a space of freedom. For some it’s like a light bulb […]
Reduce Pain in Children with Mind-Body Practices By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Guided imagery is a meditative process that uses visualization and imagination to bring awareness to the mind-body connection. Children can easily access this healing process because they’re naturally imaginative. By relaxing into a vivid story they gain tools to deal […]
Improve Parkinson’s Disease with Group Tai Chi Practice By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Tai chi, an ancient martial art characterized by slow, flowing movement and meditation, helps improve balance and movement control for people with Parkinson’s disease.” – Tara Parker-Pope Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is an incurable progressive degenerative disease of the […]