Mindfulness In Health Care

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn is now in the process of having top level discussions with political leaders in the UK about mindfulness in health care. Dr. Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts in 1979. The article in The Guardian dated April 7, 2013 by Madeleine Bunting states, …Kabat-Zinn has a [...]

Mindful Eating Helps Lose Weight

Temping Food from the Galapagos

A recent article on the Science Daily website indicated that mindful eating helps lose weight. A study at the Ohio State University showed that “mindful eating equals traditional education in lowering weight and blood sugar” for diabetes patients. The report states, Eating mindfully, or consuming food in response to physical cues of hunger and fullness, [...]

Seven Rules of Life

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Here are today’s Weekly Words of Wisdom from Lama Surya Das. The Buddha once said Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in [...]

Meditation Practices to Save Our Planet

Residence of Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was interviewed by The Ecologist and gave meditation practices to save our planet. He warned that “maybe in 100 years there will be no more humans on the planet, in just 100 years.” Extinctions have taken place on our planet many times. Volcanic eruptions about 251 million years ago created [...]