For a good night’s rest, combine general sleep hygiene with mindful and cognitive techniques

By Luc P. Beaudoin | May 2, 2016 |

——- Most Sharp­Brains read­ers under­stand the ben­e­fits of stress reg­u­la­tion, and also the ben­e­fits of sleep. Rec­om­men­da­tions for sleep hygiene are well pub­li­cized. They include avoid­ing alco­hol and stim­u­lants like caf­feine; stick­ing to reg­u­lar bed and wake times (even if you don’t get enough sleep); exposing

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Mindfulness or Mind Control at Work?

By Greater Good Science Center | December 7, 2015

  There’s a back­lash brew­ing against mind­ful­ness at work. “Cor­po­ra­tions have jumped on the mind­ful­ness band­wag­on because it con­ve­nient­ly shifts the bur­den onto the indi­vid­ual employ­ee,” write Ron Purs­er and David Loy in the Huff­in­g­ton Post. “Stress is framed as a per­son­al prob­lem, and mind­ful­ness is offered as just the right med­i­cine to help employ­ees work…

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Update: Mindful Brain Training and “The End of the Prozac Generation”

By SharpBrains | March 30, 2014

Time for Sharp­Brains’ March 2014 e‑newsletter. We hope you enjoy these thought-pro­­vok­ing arti­cles about how to enhance our brains and minds…and hope­ful­ly trans­form brain care and men­tal health along the way. New think­ing: How does mind­ful­ness improve self-con­trol and exec­u­tive func­tion­ing? Top 10 Things Your Brain Does Behind the Scenes (Inter­view in Span­ish) Cor­riendo creamos más neu­ronas que andando…

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Mindfulness training for children with ADHD and their parents

By Dr. David Rabiner | February 21, 2013

Mind­ful­ness train­ing is an approach for enhanc­ing men­tal health and alle­vi­at­ing men­tal health dif­fi­cul­ties that is based on east­ern med­i­ta­tion tech­niques. The focus of mind­ful­ness train­ing is to increase one’s aware­ness of the present moment, enhance the non-judg­­men­­tal obser­va­tion of one’s sur­round­ings, and decrease impul­sive and 

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Planet Earth 2.0: Yes We Can

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 11, 2008 |

Imag­ine see­ing a top sheik from Dubai, wrapped in tra­di­tion­al Arab cloth­ing, exclaim “Yes We Can” in front of the 800 experts gath­ered dur­ing the Sum­mit of the Glob­al Agen­da that just took place in Dubai, co-orga­nized by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum and the Gov­ern­ment of Dubai. This same sheik added that “we build the…

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