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Yoga to Reduce Trauma Symptoms

Oct 22, 2016 | Health, Mindfulness

Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, and a team from the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute has led a three year study looking at how yoga can reduce post traumatic symptoms in women. From 2008 to 2011, they randomly assigned 64 women who were suffering from...

Meditation for Stress

Jul 19, 2016 | Eating Challenges, Meditations, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

This meditation practice helps us learn to be with our stress, anxiety or pain. Rather than trying to avoid it, or get overwhelmed by our feelings, meditation practice helps us ‘be with’ what we are experiencing. When we practice ‘being with’...

A Natural Anti-Depressant that Works

Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized

Dr. Elisha Stein studies depression and has found that a depressed brain has significantly more activity in the right prefrontal cortex than the left prefrontal cortex.The right side is associated with avoidance, negative emotions, and stuckness while the left side is...

Kindfulness

Jun 12, 2016 | Blog, Eating Challenges, Health, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Self-Compassion

Mindfulness practice helps us become more aware of what we are experiencing, while we are experiencing it. So we can start to observe ourselves when we are feeling different emotions and reactions and learn how not to react in the moment. It helps if we can do this...