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In The News Yoga: Improve your stress management and relaxation skills The Mayo Clinic By Mayo Clinic Staff, Jan 18, 2008 Chronic stress can lead to a variety of health and emotional problems. Yoga is an effective method to reduce stress and anxiety. See how to get started. (read more). What Alternative Medicine Can Do For You WCPN 90.3 FM, Public Arts Radio, Aired Dec. 3, 2007 Not too long ago, alternative medicine -- acupuncture, herbs, and the like -- struggled for recognition and respectability. That's no longer the case. Science tells us that alternative therapies really do help to cure what ails you, and more physicians are prescribing them to their patients. (Listen) Guests include:
Job a mind-set with meditation The Seattle Times By Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Dec 2, 2007 Imagine an executive who moves his telephone to the far side of his office. It takes an extra five seconds to answer every call. Must be an unproductive fellow, right? Not according to Jonathan Foust, who teaches meditation at the World Bank and other Washington, D.C., venues. Foust encourages his students to pause during the rush of daily life, to return to the calm place they find in meditation. (read more). Integrative Psychiatry: What is it? Each year more than 75 million Americans suffer from a common psychiatric illness such as depression or anxiety disorder. Only half seek professional help. Prior to the discovery of most recent medications, psychiatrist's interventions typically focused on (read more). Marital Spats, Taken to Heart The New York Times by Tara Parker Pope, October 2, 2007 Arguing is an inevitable part of married life. But now researchers are putting the marital spat under the microscope to see if the way you fight with your spouse can affect your health. Recent studies show that how often couples fight or what they fight about usually doesn’t matter. Instead, it’s (read more). The Unmedicated Mind The Wall Street Journal Online, July 13, 2007 Backlash against antidepressants is fueling new interest in alternative treatments. Nancy Keates reports. (read more). Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works Live Science By Melinda Wenner, June 29, 2007 If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works. Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to "let them go." Psychologists have long believed (read more). How Thinking Can Change the Brain His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, January 20, 2007 (Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal) Dalai Lama helps scientists show the power of the mind to sculpt our gray matter. Although science and religion are often in conflict, the Dalai Lama takes a different approach. Every year or so the head of Tibetan Buddhism invites a group of scientists to his home in Dharamsala, in Northern India, to discuss their work and how Buddhism might contribute to it. (read more) Narrowing the Gap Between Insight and Change: Yoga, Psychotherapy, and the Body: A conversation with Bo Forbes Kripalu Online by Grace Welker What is the role of the body in psychotherapy, a field that has traditionally emphasized the mind and the emotions? To explore this question, Kripalu Online editor Grace Welker talks with Bo Forbes, a clinical psychologist who has been successfully introducing yoga into the therapeutic setting to treat a wide range of chronic issues, including anxiety, insomnia, depression, ADD, and fibromyalgia. (read more). |
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