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Mindfulness: The craze sweeping schools now at a university near you
Mindfulness: The craze sweeping schools now at a university near you
Slowly take a raisin and examine every wrinkle and fold of its surface. Feel its texture with your fingers. Inhale its scent. Squeeze it and hear how it sounds. Raise it to your lips, place it in your mouth, explore it with your tongue. Prepare to chew. As you bite into it, notice the bursts of taste and how these change, and be aware of when you feel ready to swallow. Finally, feel the raisin travel into your body.
This is a common introductory exercise in mindfulness – a practice derived…READ MORE.
Your Brain on Stress
This is Your Brain in Meltdown. Scientific American SOURCE: “STRESS SIGNALLING PATHWAYS THAT IMPAIR PREFRONTAL CORTEX STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION,” BY AMY F. T. ARNSTEN, IN NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE, VOL. 10; JUNE 2009
Train Your Brain…Here’s Why and How!
Try These Cognitive Restructuring Exercises to Improve Your Mood and Reduce Stress
Cognitive restructuring is a core part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is one of the most effective psychological treatments for common problems like depression, anxiety disorders, and binge eating. Here, clinical and social psychologist Alice Boyes shares some CBT techniques you can try at home to reduce problems with mood, anxiety, and stress.
Practice Noticing When You’re Having a Cognitive Distortion
Choose one type of cognitive distortion to focus on at a time. Example: you recognize that you’re prone to “negative predictions.” For a week, just notice any times you find yourself…READ MORE
This is YOUR brain on NOT enough SLEEP
Find Out about How Your Brain Operates on LOW SLEEP!
When you’re so tired and you haven’t slept a wink, your mind goes on the blink. That’s more than just a play on a quaint batch of Beatles lyrics. It’s the truth.
The sleep-starved mind is a mind on the blink, a groggy, impaired ball of mush.
Being tired — really, really tired — is a lot like being wasted. You’re more likely to slur when you speak, make risky decisions, forget what you did and generally act, well, a bit like an idiot. Worse, driving tired is as dangerous as driving drunk, several studies — and, yes, even the meticulous Mythbusters — confirm.
It’s simple, yet so few of us listen, this zombie mommy included. Bottom line: Sleepy equals bad for your brain. Well-rested equals good. Not getting enough shut-eye isn’t just harmful to you, it could lead to you accidentally harming others, too. By now none of this should come as a surprise, so why aren’t you logging at least six to eight restorative, absolutely critical hours between the sheets every night?
Your wakeup call is now. Take a look at the sobering infographic about the ill effects of sleep deprivation by General Electric and Mic below, then see if you’re still up for an all-nighter. We’re not…READ MORE
This is how you warp your brain when you don’t get enough sleep:
Biodegradable Rice-sized brain implant
Dissolvable brain implant the size of a grain of rice invented by scientists
Biodegradable device which measures temperature and blood pressure could be used to monitor a patient’s recovery
The device could be implanted into the brain without the need to remove it once its job is done Corbis.
A surgical implant no bigger than a grain of rice which measures a patient’s temperature and blood pressure for several days before dissolving harmlessly in body fluids has been invented by scientists.
The biodegradable device could be implanted into the brain or other vital organs to monitor a patient’s medical recovery without the need for cumbersome wires or operations to remove the implant once its job is done, the researchers said.
Tests carried out on laboratory animals shows…READ MORE.