Opinions
African American Mindfulness Researchers Make Vital Contributions
The growing recognition of transdisciplinarity’s powerful nature offers researchers valuable opportunities for collaboration
Moving Beyond the Headlines
Does the scientific content that we read always mean what it claims?
The Clark Unitive Effect: Bridging the ‘Valley of Death’ from Research to Practice
The growing recognition of transdisciplinarity’s powerful nature offers researchers valuable opportunities for collaboration
Oppositional Cultural Practice®: OWN IT! FEEL IT! LIVE IT! LOVE IT!
Mindfulness practices like critical analysis can reveal the mental formations behind these tools.
The challenges of bringing mindfulness into schools
After nearly three decades, a ban prohibiting public schools to offer yoga as an elective for grades K-12 has been overturned in Alabama.
What is Mindfulness?
Rather than proposing a single definition, mindfulness might be better understood in relation to the phenomenology of the various contemplative traditions and practices that intend to develop mindfulness.
What is the Present Moment? Some Warnings about Hanging out in it, and a New Scientific Theory of Meditation
Ruben Laukkonen is a cognitive neuroscientist at the VU University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on sudden insight experiences and the effects of intensive meditation on the mind and brain. Using a combination of neuroimaging, machine learning, and neuro-phenomenology, Ruben is investigating some of the most rare states of consciousness accessible to human beings. He has published articles in leading journals, given talks at prestigious conferences, and has written on topics that range from artificial intelligence to psychedelics. Ruben has an eclectic contemplative background, including different meditation traditions such as Zen, Advaita, and Theravada.
Your Brain is also Part of Your Body: Contextual and Contemplative Approaches in Physical Illness
Despite significant advances in the field of psychology due to increased research … the usual care of people with chronic medical conditions still often neglects the psychological issues associated with the physical dimension of the disease.
The Power of Their Own Breath
“We focus on concentration,” Jones says. “So rather than sharpening your focus, which is what happens when you get anxious, the goal is to relax your focus.” The ability to utilize your breath to calm your nervous system is the first step to teaching mindfulness.
The Emerging Trend of Mindfulness in Education
According to the Association for Mindfulness in Education, mindfulness can increase students’ emotional regulation, social skills, self-esteem, and organizational capacities.