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[stress reduction] How to Meditate | D.I.Y. Dharma
The Vipassana Dhura Meditation Society has an excellent guide to meditation that has been copied below. We've also compiled a page of videos, courtesy of Howcast and The Emotion Machine, which you may find helpful.
Active Listening | University of Colorado conflict research consortium
Active listening is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding. Often when people talk to each other, they don=t listen attentively. They are often distracted, half listening, half thinking about something else. When people are engaged in a conflict, they are often busy formulating a response to what is being said. They assume that they have heard what their opponent is saying many times before, so rather than paying attention, they focus on how they can respond to win the argument.
How to have more self-discipline | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist
when it comes to success, self-discipline is much more important than self-esteem.
Attention Literacy | City Brights: Howard Rheingold
I wasn't trying to control them. I was trying to draw their attention to how little control any of us seem to have over where we let the screens on our laps and in our pockets lead our thoughts.
Shambhala SunSpace » Mindfulness Minder: On fertility, addiction, eating, and good grades
Have you noticed how the media and mindfulness are having a love affair? There’s now a dizzying amount of text, talk and tweeting on the way mainstream life has embraced mindfulness.
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Have you noticed how the media and mindfulness are having a love affair? There’s now a dizzying amount of text, talk and tweeting on the way mainstream life has embraced mindfulness.
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At Yale, mindfulness is being used to help treat smoking and other addictions. Psychologist Judson A. Brewer runs a clinic that trains people to “break the cycle of turning to a drug to relieve the seemingly unbearable feelings created by stresses, such as loneliness or anger.”
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[PMOG Mission] Training attention: Mindfulness 101
"This mission takes you on a journey into *attention* and how we might begin to take a more disciplined and mindful approach to our life, study and work."
continuouspartialattention wiki
"In a 24/7, always-on world, continuous partial attention used as our dominant attention mode contributes to a feeling of overwhelm, over-stimulation and to a sense of being unfulfilled"
Overcoming Classroom Stress | David Lynch Foundation
Children need to feel safe in school because pressure, stress, and fear undermine learning.
Meditation found to increase brain size
Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.
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