Are you living a mindful life? Parent, teacher, brain scientist, and founder of Mindful Life, Kristen Race, Ph.D. gives an engaging and humorous TEDx talk about the stress we experience in our hectic modern lives and its impact on our brains. She shares some simple (mindful) ways to help sustain a more balanced, healthier, & […]
Professor Mark Williams, director of Oxford Mindfulness Center, offers some engaging insight about the neuroscience and benefits of mindfulness. Take a few moments to watch this short video as it reinforces how mindfulness practice can shift the way we use attention to relate to the activities of our mind, and how this quality of awareness […]
Take a few minutes here & now, and watch this truly inspiring and insightful TEDtalk video with neuroscientist, educator, and author Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., as she shares her own historical experience of the brain under the conditions of a hemorrhagic stroke. This is a powerfully moving story about how our brains define us and […]
Directed by Phie Ambo and produced by Danish Documentary Productions, this documentary film, “Free the Mind” made its international debut in Amsterdam this month. The film will debut in the U.S. in 2013. It chronicles the stories of war veterans and children taking part in vital brain research at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at […]
Here is a wonderful little web app- calm.com– that will bring you a bit of respite… whether it’s 2 minutes or 10 minutes. The music, scenery, and guidance are soothing and relaxing. These features of the web app can all be modified through the simple user interface. The short relaxations offered by calm.com are definitely […]
World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson has a simple ‘litmus test’ of 20 questions to help measure your positivity ratio.She is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory (a.k.a. PEP Lab) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From Dr. Fredrickson’s extensive research, she discovered […]
Created by Nic Marks, founder of the Centre for Well-being, the ‘Happy Planet Index’ (HPI), measures what matters: the extent to which countries deliver long, happy, sustainable lives for the people that live in them. The Index uses global data on life expectancy, experienced well-being and Ecological Footprint to calculate this. The index is an […]
The lyrics of this song by Baz Luhrmann are timeless & inspirational. Real & relevant. Take a few moments here & now to simply listen, and to view this insightful animation set to typography… To welcome in the summer… to reflect… to remember… to value the simple yet wondrous matters in life that can truly […]
Chip Conley was a very successful executive in Silicon Valley who appeared to have it all. However, things radically shifted for him with the 2008 downturn in the economy, losing a number of close friends & colleagues to suicide, along with his own medical emergency. These life changing events got his attention in a big […]
We should all be more mindfully active in paying closer attention to what we eat… and to how we eat. We need to better educate our children about their food, their eating habits, as well as their relationship to what they eat. There is no better time than the present. About 1/3 of all Americans […]