Improve Chronic Pain with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The last thing we want to do is pay more attention to our pain. But that’s the premise behind mindfulness, a highly effective practice for chronic pain (among other concerns).” – Margarita Tartakovski We all have to deal with pain. It’s inevitable, but […]
Reduce Grief with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Releasing the grief we carry is a long, tear-filled process. Yet it follows the natural intelligence of the body and heart. Trust it, trust the unfolding. Along with meditation, some of your grief will want to be written, to be cried out, to […]
Maintain a Yoga Practice to Improve Absences due to Back Pain By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “For people with lower back pain, stretching is very important. For example, stretching the hamstring muscles (in the back of the thigh) helps expand the motion in the pelvis, decreasing stress across the lower back. In […]
Improve Emotional Regulation, Thereby Improving Mental Illness Symptoms, with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Through mindfulness you can learn to turn your difficult emotions into your greatest teachers and sources of strength. Instead of ‘turning away’ from pain in avoidance we can learn to gently ‘turn towards’ what we’re experiencing. We […]
Improve Emotional Reactivity and Stress Responding with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “There are moments in life that are hard, painful, scary and difficult to endure. There are times when we feel anger, anxiety, grief, embarrassment, stress, remorse or other negative emotions. Through mindfulness you can learn to turn your negative emotions into your greatest teachers and […]
Reduce Couples Psychological Distress with Lung Cancer with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based clinical interventions are low-cost and low-risk mind-body practices that have been shown to positively affect quality of life and biological outcomes in many different populations, including cancer patients and healthcare professionals.” – Susan Bauer-Wu […]
Improve Schizophrenia with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Meditation, along with utilizing the painful energy of hardship as fuel for the meditative fire, has made me feel differently about life. I now look at my experience of life, despite it being the only thing I am aware of, as being a […]
Improve Loneliness and Quality of Life with Women with HIV with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness-Based Therapies had a long-term effect on stress and both a short- and long-term effect on depression in people living with an HIV infection.” – Yang Yang More than 35 million people worldwide and […]
Fluctuations in Mindfulness Occur with Fluctuations in Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms. By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness meditation encourages recognition of the wide palate of human emotions, but also keenly encourages one not to fixate on these temporary feelings. Work in mindfulness meditation includes labeling these emotions in a non-judgmental manner and […]
Improve Perception, Mood, and Motor Performance in Children with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness is widely considered effective as a treatment for children and adolescents with aggression, ADHD, or anxiety.” – Lauren Cassani Davis Childhood is a miraculous period during which the child is dynamically absorbing information from every […]