Promote Healthy Aging with Mindfulness

Promote Healthy Aging with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “the Buddha – surely the archetypal meditator – is reputed to have lived to 80, which must have been an exceptionally ripe old age in 5th century BCE India. And according to Buddhist scriptures, even after 80 years in this realm of […]

Alleviate General Practitioner Burnout with Mindfulness

Alleviate General Practitioner Burnout with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Enhancing the already inherent capacity of the physician to experience fully the clinical encounter—not only its pleasant but also its most unpleasant aspects—without judgment but with a sense of curiosity and adventure seems to have had a profound effect on the […]

Improve Attitudes and Mental Health at Work with Mindfulness

Improve Attitudes and Mental Health at Work with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Mindfulness is, above all, about being aware and awake rather than operating unconsciously. When you’re consciously present at work, you’re aware of two aspects of your moment-to-moment experience—what’s going on around you and what’s going on within you. […]

Improve Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms with Mindfulness

Improve Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “mindfulness can be conceptualized as a facilitator of transition, enabling people to adapt to living with a long-term condition, and that this transition is associated with improved, self-directed management, important to both people with long-term conditions and healthcare providers.” – Daniela Semedo […]

Improve the Physical and Psychological State of Breast Cancer Survivors with Mindfulness

Improve the Physical and Psychological State of Breast Cancer Survivors with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “A brief mindfulness-based intervention has a positive short-term effect on psychological and behavioral measures as well as proinflammatory signal markers in younger breast cancer survivors,” – Joyce O’Shaughnessy   About 12.5% of women in the U.S. develop invasive […]