Will Baum, LCSW Psychotherapy

Tag: mindfulness

  • Mindful Computing

    Heard of this?  Stillness Buddy.  Designed for those who find themselves jumping from one thing to another on the computer without a second’s break or breath.  From the site: Stillness Buddy works by displaying on your desktop screen, short “moments of stillness” and longer “mindfulness pauses,” spread out during the day. These breaks are very brief so…

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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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  • Transcendental Meditation for Depression

    PsychCentral has news about two studies showing that Transcendental Meditation (TM) helps reduce depression…at least for African-Americans and Hawaiians over 55. Participants in both studies who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant reductions in depressive symptoms compared to health education controls. The largest decreases were found in those participants who had indications of clinically…

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  • Cut Off from the Neck Down

    A big excerpt from Daniel Siegel’s “Mindsight” is up at wheretheclientis.com.  Dr. Siegel is a prolific brain science-meets therapy-meets mindfulness writer, based at UCLA.  PR says: • Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can’ t shake? • Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard…

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  • Meditation Bliss-Ninnies

    On theme:  Marcia Lucas, PhD blogs a response at Psychology Today re meditation as zoning out. Here’s the polite version of a question I received recently about my support of mindfulness meditation as a practice for well-being in relationships: Why are you encouraging people to zone out? Sitting around pretending they’re above it all, and avoiding…

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