Study: Meditation practice, both formal and informal, helps develop equanimity over time

By Greater Good Science Center | August 20, 2020

We are liv­ing through a time of uncer­tain­ty, a sky-high pile of ques­tion marks. It has become increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to make plans because the state of our world today is so volatile due to the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. Some peo­ple are adapt­ing to their homes becom­ing their offices indef­i­nite­ly, or in dan­ger of los­ing their jobs,…

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Three evidence-based ways to develop a resilient mind

By Greater Good Science Center | December 4, 2019

___ Life throws chaos at us on a reg­u­lar basis—whether it’s our finances, our rela­tion­ships, or our health. In the work world, around 50 per­cent of peo­ple are burned out in indus­tries like health care, bank­ing, and non­prof­its, and employ­ers spend $300 bil­lion per year on work­­place-relat­ed stress. In response, we just keep on pushing…

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From Distress to De-Stress: helping anxious, worried kids (Part 2 of 2)

By Dr. Jerome Schultz | February 19, 2009

Last week, in this arti­cle’s first part, we dis­cussed the impor­tance of actu­al­ly teach­ing chil­dren how to get them­selves into a phys­i­cal state of being relaxed, explored sev­er­al sug­ges­tions I hope you found use­ful. Let’s con­tin­ue. Teach­ers can help stu­dent over­come stress by teach­ing them to iden­ti­fy the imped­i­ments they might encounter in doing a…

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