Unsorted: Mental Health & Psychology

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I was often caught in a negative thought loop: Was I doing well at work? Did I get new wrinkles? Is the economy going to crash? The more I observed this habit, the more I interrupted it before it spiraled out of control.

Mindfulness has gone from hippie-dippie magical thinking to science-based health hack. What gives?

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Breathing is traditionally thought of as an automatic process driven by the brainstem—the part of the brain controlling such life-sustaining functions as heartbeat and sleeping patterns. But new and unique research, involving recordings made directly from within the brains of humans undergoing neurosurgery, shows that breathing can also change your brain.

The solitary journey toward contentment is a self-help truism that isn’t really true.

Hear me out: Mindfulness erodes the psychology of tribalism in subtle and powerful ways.

By taking the Buddhism out of the practice, Kabat-Zinn pioneered a meditative approach used all over the world to treat pain and depression. He talks about Trump, ‘McMindfulness’ and how a 10-second vision in 1979 led to a change in the world’s consciousness

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