“Fast meditation”? A study posted at PsychCentral shows near-instant results from just a little mindfulness practice: Psychologists studying the effects of a meditation technique known as “mindfulness” found that meditation-trained participants showed a significant improvement in their critical cognitive skills (and performed significantly higher in cognitive tests than a control group) after only four days […]
I’ve got a prime time therapy hour available at the Silver Lake office: Tuesdays at 6:30pm. The office is at 4001 1/2 Sunset Blvd., 90027 (Sunset Junction). Write or call to talk and arrange a first appointment.
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Crisis Coping from A to Z has its R: “Remember Past Coping,” now up at PsychologyToday.com. The key to getting through whatever you’re going through now may be revisiting a long-lost coping strategy: “I used to keep a journal.” “I used to jog.” “I used to take baths.” “I used to eat better.” Whatever
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Jim Taylor, PhD asks, Are you raising a human being or a human doing? Having internalized their perceptions of being a human doing from their parents, children come to love themselves only when they are successful and experience nothing less than self-loathing when they fail. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Po Bronson sounded the alarm about
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A study finds a genetic link between stress, obesity, and diabetes. ‘We showed that the actions of single gene in just one part of the brain can have profound effects on the metabolism of the whole body,’ says Chen. This mechanism, which appears to be a ‘smoking gun’ tying stress levels to metabolic disease, might,
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Nearing 100 posts on this blog, I’m going to begin adding a few entries now and then with an eye toward search engine results. An experiment. Hope they won’t be too distracting. Things like, “Los Angeles Therapist.” I am a Los Angeles therapist, in case you’re finding this site for the first time. I work
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From Time.com: How Not to Raise a Bully. (In short: teach empathy.) Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put ourselves in another person’s shoes — has
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From PsyBlog: Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture is Unsatisfying re why stuff doesn’t make you happy. Unless… [T]hinking of material purchases in experiential terms helps banish dissatisfaction. Try thinking of jeans in terms of where you wore them or how they feel, the mp3 player in terms of how the music changes your mood or outlook,
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From the NYT: Diet May Be Linked to Lower Alzheimer’s Risk in Older People. Starts this way: Older adults appear to be at lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease if they eat a diet rich in fish, poultry, fruit, nuts, dark leafy greens, vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, and oil-and-vinegar dressing, a new study has found.
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The Los Angeles Times takes look at depression in seniors. When dealing with her older patients, [Dr. Laura] Mosqueda tries to avoid using the term depression — or any others that might indicate a mental problem. People in their 70s, 80s and 90s are intimidated by those words, she says. “I’ll say to them,
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