Good News Notes: “There is anecdotal evidence that meditation and mindfulness training may be able to reduce high blood pressure and hypertension. However, clinical confirmation of these claims has been scarce until last month, when researchers published a new study in the journal PLOS One. The authors report the results of a Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP)…
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Time To Think: Students Find Meditation, Mindfulness Help Them Calm Stress
Good News Notes: “At George Washington High School in Denver, in the dance room, a couple of dozen students sit in chairs in a half-circle, silent, feet on the floor, eyes closed. Instructor Beverly Jacobson speaks softly.” “It’s Mindful Monday, a new part of the students’ physical education class where Jacobson uses the Inner Strength…
Chronic Pain Eased With Meditation And Lower Doses Of Opioids
Good News Notes: “There’s new evidence that mind-body interventions can help reduce pain in people who have been taking prescription opioids — and lead to reductions in the drug’s dose.” “In a study published this month in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers reviewed evidence from 60 studies that included about 6,400 participants. They evaluated a range of…
Mindfulness significantly benefits graduate students, says first study of its kind
Good News Notes: “Ph.D. students already have too much to do and a long list of challenges, from research setbacks to paying the bills on a meager salary.” “Something like meditation but not quite the same thing, mindfulness is the state of being aware of the present moment and all one’s sensations and feelings, without…
Growga wants to teach kids techniques to combat anxiety
Good News Notes: “The National Survey of Children’s Health for ages 6 to 17 similarly found a 20% increase in diagnoses of anxiety between 2007 and 2012.” Children are facing increasing pressure to get good grades and a world of social media that doesn’t allow someone to simply leave the problems of the day at…
Two studies reveal benefits of mindfulness for middle school students
Good News Notes: Mindfulness is focusing one’s thoughts on the present moment and letting thoughts, worries, etc. about past or future events go. These studies showed middle schoolers who were taught mindfulness demonstrated less stress and anxiety than the control group. These results show promise for using mindfulness techniques to help our children not only…
New Class Offers Kids A Rainbow of Mindfulness
Good News Notes: Infinite Rainbows is a new mindfulness program for kids. Gives children methods and skills to help cope with stressful and frustrating situations. Based in Annapolis, Maryland. View the whole story here: https://www.capitalgazette.com/lifestyles/ac-cn-mindfullness-rainbow-0915-20190915-uvkktdbdbvc5lloyufixp3hz5a-story.html
Meditation can help prevent Alzheimer's disease: study
https://nypost.com/2019/08/19/meditation-can-help-prevent-alzheimers-disease-study/
Corpus Christi horse trainer brings animals to meditation group
https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/corpus-christi-horse-trainer/503-40853c0a-ba16-4c18-a007-d3de40c232c1
Police use mindfulness meditation to relieve stress
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article233008317.html