Will Baum, LCSW Psychotherapy

Tag: meditation

  • Kabat-Zinn at Google

    Did some surfing around, found more free mindfulness mp3s, linked at the bottom of this site’s mindfulness page.  Also came across this, mindfulness guru Jon Kabat-Zinn speaking at Google–first explaining, then demonstrating the practice. So, if you’ve got an hour-twelve to spare…

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  • Meditation v. Pain

    From PsychCentral: Habitual Meditation Reduces Pain Perception. “…Meditation trains the brain to be more present-focused and therefore to spend less time anticipating future negative events. This may be why meditation is effective at reducing the recurrence of depression, which makes chronic pain considerably worse.”  

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  • Mindful Meditations

    As posted by the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA.  Nice, quick, lo-fi doses of calm and awareness. 5 minute Breathing Meditation 12 minute Breath, Sound, Body Meditation 19 minute Complete Meditation Instructions 7 minute Meditation for Working with Difficulties 9:30 minute Loving Kindness Meditation 3 minute short Body and Sound meditation. 3 minute short Loving Kindness…

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  • Guided Meditation Page

    Alongside lots of other downloadable/streamable stuff at audiodharma.com, here’s a page of Guided Meditations (also downloadable and streamable). Lots to choose from–different approaches, different voices, different lengths, from 5 minutes to 50.

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  • Fast Meditation

    “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…

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