Ronald Siegel wrote this long article about mindfulness and psychotherapy for the clinician-readers of Psychotherapy Networker. Doesn’t mean you can’t give it a look. A sample: [M]indfulness is the opposite of experiential avoidance…It allows us to feel the urge to have an alcohol drink arise and pass rather than heading to the bottle, to get on the […]
Another source of free guided mindfulness meditations emerges: Spotify. Here are a few collections that showed up in a search there. Plenty more where these came from. Enjoy. Judith Day – Introduction To Mindfulness Meditation Jon Kabat-Zinn – Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief Richard K. Nongard – Mindfulness Meditation Techniques: Guided Meditations to Help You
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The NYT Magazine asks, Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts… Echoing this TED
Toward a less hovering approach to parenting: How to Land Your Kid in Therapy (The Atlantic). [A]ll of this worry about creating low self-esteem might actually perpetuate it. No wonder my patient Lizzie told me she felt “less amazing” than her parents had always said she was. Given how “amazing” her parents made her out
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Extra motivation for figuring out how to get along better?: The way you relate to your partner can affect your long-term mental and physical health, study shows (Science Daily). “We already know from prior research that people in stable, happy marriages experience better overall health than do those in more conflicted relationships,” said Professor Hicks.
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Study Links Empathy, Self-Esteem, and Autonomy with Increased Sexual Enjoyment (jhsph.edu): Sexual pleasure among young adults (ages 18-26) is linked to healthy psychological and social development, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Variety pack from the feed: 10 Things You Should Know About Male Depression (Psych Central) Zombie Prevention: Your Child’s Sleep (NYT) Obsessive Fears Arise in Response to Compulsions in OCD (Psych Central) The Creative Power of Thinking Outside Yourself (PsyBlog) A Psychopath Walks Into A Room. Can You Tell? (NPR)
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From the recommended reading list, Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh, a short, simple call to mindfulness, personal and political. In the book, some nice suggestions about mindfulness practice, including these lines to silently try out during mindfulness meditation: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Worth a shot for the
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A New Gauge to See What’s Beyond Happiness (NYT): In his 2008 book, “Gross National Happiness,” Dr. Brooks argues that what’s crucial to well-being is not how cheerful you feel, not how much money you make, but rather the meaning you find in life and your sense of “earned success” — the belief that you