Will Baum, LCSW Psychotherapy

Tag: mindfulness

  • Mindfulness Exercises

    From The Mindful Way Through Anxiety–or, rather, from the book’s website–some audio mindfulness exercises.  (The promo material at the beginning of each ends quickly.)

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  • Living in the Moment

    A app-based study supports mindfulness as a route to happiness. “A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind,” wrote psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University who used an iPhone web app to gather 250,000 data points on people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions as they…

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  • MBSR, Year One

    On my blog at Psychology Today, a brief interview with Trudy Goodman about the dawn of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in anticipation of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s UCLA appearance this Wednesday. Full Catastrophe Living (pictured) is Kabat-Zinn’s big book of MBSR.  If you’re just curious and testing out mindfulness, you might try Wherever You Go, There You Are…

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  • Mindfulness and Non-Doing

    Jon Kabat-Zinn talks mindfulness at Google (2007):

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  • Meditation Brain

    A study looks at the different brain waves associated with three different types of meditation. Focused attention, characterized by beta/gamma activity, included meditations from Tibetan Buddhist (loving kindness and compassion), Buddhist (Zen and Diamond Way), and Chinese (Qigong) traditions. Open monitoring, characterized by theta activity, included meditations from Buddhist (Mindfulness, and ZaZen), Chinese (Qigong), and…

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