A recent article on Huffingtonpost talks about how mindfulness can help us slow down and enjoy life… we new that.
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A recent article on Huffingtonpost talks about how mindfulness can help us slow down and enjoy life… we new that.
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Stress sells. It is certainly selling iPhone apps. The iTune store has 19 apps beginning with the word stress. Our holistic health guru Deepak Chopra, MD has his own stress app called Stress Free. NPR’s story, Therapist In Your Pocket talks about how therapists are using phone apps to help their patients in ways other procedures weren’t before the apps.
These apps take two prevalent phenomena – stress and phone apps and puts them together. These apps make being aware of stress and releasing it, fun and easy. When you have a technology assisting you, what was hard to remember and do, becomes automatic and cool.
These apps certainly beat becoming sick from stress or taking drugs to reduce stress.
What are your favorite apps for stress?
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What institution would you expect to be the last to adopt mindfulness-based stress reduction? My answer would be the US military. Well, it seems they are on the way to using it to help their soldiers and Marines.
A post on psychcentral.com describes a recent study, “University of Pennsylvania researchers found mindfulness training, or MT was associated with improvements in mood and working memory…. The study found that the more time participants spent engaging in daily mindfulness exercises the better their mood and working memory, the cognitive term for complex thought, problem solving and cognitive control of emotions.”
The military is seeing mindfulness as building “mind fitness.” As anyone who has done mindfulness meditation knows, your mind not only becomes more relaxed, it performs better.
Imagine what would occur if mindfulness was as common as calisthenics. Because it works and it is cheap, I expect we will see continue adoption of mindfulness throughout our institutions.
Where have you seen mindfulness adopted?
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Stress along with other irritants causes inflammation.
The excellent post by Mark Hyman, MD describes how all forms of irritation create the natural response of inflammation. As he points out, the problem is not the acute inflammation, such as a sprained ankle. The problem is the subliminal, constant irritation that causes in some way most of all our chronic illness. Cardiovascular disease with its C-reactive protein is proving to be one of the best examples.
You take the irritant away – the inflammation leaves – then the disease leaves. It can be that simple.
What are your irriations that you will remove?
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Here is an excellent video by Gina Trapani the founder of a great blog – Lifehacker. The video is a short course on why not to multitask. The magazine Fastcompany produced this video and blog post on the downsides of multitasking. Bottom-line, it produces stress trying to keep your focus on two or more items simultaneously. Don’t do it.
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