Researchers collected information from approximately 23,000 households in the United States. The full results of the study are available in the May 9, 2011 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Robert Puff, Ph.D., author of the Pyschology Today article about the study, notes optimistically that the medical community appears to be embracing “meditation over medication.” 08/10/12 [image © flickr.com/opensourceway and bainesmcg]

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi This groundbreaking book provides insight into what’s needed to get into flow, when time alters and you become so absorbed in whatever you’re doing that nothing else matters. The key, in Mumford’s view, is learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. “The best moments of our lives,” writes Csikszentmihalyi, are “when a person’s body or mind is stretched to the limits in a voluntary moment to achieve something difficult and worthwhile....

The last decade has seen a huge spike in secular applications of mindfulness, the practice of focusing our attention on our thoughts, feelings, and environment in the present moment. While the first wave of mindfulness-based programs were for adults, more recent efforts have targeted the well-being of children and adolescents; as a result, mindfulness programs in schools are becoming more and more widespread. But until recently, “enthusiasm for promoting such practices [outweighed] the current evidence supporting them,” to quote a 2012 review of the research on mindfulness practices with children and youth....

For the first day of NYFW Spring ’19 collections, we spotted a few variations of the classic bob hairstyle that will make you want to cut your hair today. Read on to see the direction you should go if you want to try your hand at the look: ** 1. The Combed Back Bob This isn’t a style we see as much as the classic middle part bob, and we feel this look is often overlooked....

Increasing scientific evidence, thanks to the works of Drs. Thupten Jinpa, Kristin Neff, James Doty, and many others, has shown that compassion has benefits not to be ignored—lower stress responses and symptoms of depression, greater levels of life satisfaction, creativity, and physical health. Compassion is generative. Compassion motivates action. We also know that compassion can be learned through formal meditation practices and gratitude journaling. These and other evidenced-based tools encourage self-compassion, empathy, non-judgment, capacity to listen, sense of shared humanity, and presence....