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Want to feel more Calm, get some Headspace, and practice Mindfulness Daily?

June 25, 2018 by Greater Good Science Center

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Let me ask again…want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Daily?

There are apps for that—hundreds of them, besides the three I just mentioned.

These apps make a promise: Rather than invest­ing count­less hours and dol­lars in mind­ful­ness class­es or mind­ful­ness-based ther­a­py, we can choose to med­i­tate from the com­fort of our smart­phones. Users are flock­ing to mind­ful­ness apps in hopes of cul­ti­vat­ing kind atten­tion to their own thoughts and feel­ings, and of reap­ing the men­tal and phys­i­cal ben­e­fits that go along with mindfulness.

But do they work? What does sci­ence say about mind­ful­ness apps? [Read more…] about Want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Daily?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-training-app, Calm, digital, Headspace, Lumosity, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness apps, Mindfulness Daily, mindfulness-based, smartphone, stress-reduction, therapy

Study: Mindfulness training for teachers can result in a better learning environment for students

March 3, 2017 by Greater Good Science Center

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No one would argue with the fact that teach­ing is stress­ful. Not only is the work high­ly chal­leng­ing, teach­ers are also fre­quent­ly under­paid, under­val­ued, and sub­ject to harsh scruti­ny. No won­der teacher burnout is on the rise and that many feel like leav­ing their profession.

But teacher stress is not only a prob­lem for teach­ers; it can also be a prob­lem for stu­dents. [Read more…] about Study: Mind­ful­ness train­ing for teach­ers can result in a bet­ter learn­ing envi­ron­ment for students

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: care, emotion regulation, Learning, meditation, Mindfulness-Training, resilience, social-emotional-learning, Stress, stress-reduction, teacher stress, teaching

Update: Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

September 26, 2014 by SharpBrains

Summit Interviews

Time for our Sep­tem­ber 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights  and inno­va­tions reports…including four thought-pro­vok­ing inter­views with Spon­sors of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th). Enjoy!

New per­spec­tives at the fron­tier of Brain, Health & Innovation:

  • Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young: Every kid should prac­tice stress reduc­tion and tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es at school
  • Michael Meagher (Cog­nic­i­ti): Let’s trans­form brain health from “suf­fer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-con­trol”
  • Ita­mar Lesu­isse (Peak): My inter­est in brain train­ing stemmed from my own inadequacies
  • Sil­via Dami­ano (About my Brain Insti­tute): Why not democ­ra­tise access to neuroscience?

New trends:

  • School-based pro­grams to enhance resilience and emotional/ cog­ni­tive flexibility
  • The next in wear­ables: Har­ness­ing EEG for “the mass­es” to track and enhance mind fitness
  • Three Ways to Bring Mind­ful­ness Into Therapy
  • Gen­er­al Motors to adopt eye, head-track­ing tech­nol­o­gy to reduce dis­tract­ed driving
  • To build a health­i­er future, let’s empow­er and equip indi­vid­u­als to be in con­trol of their well-being

New stud­ies:

  • A new psy­choso­cial treat­ment for Inat­ten­tive ADHD
  • Long-term use of anx­i­ety and sleep­ing pills can increase Alzheimer’s risk
  • From anti-depres­sant “mag­ic pills” towards tar­get­ed com­bi­na­tion of med­ica­tions and cog­ni­tive therapy
  • The brain ben­e­fits of learn­ing and speak­ing a sec­ond language

2014_SharpBrains_Virtual_Summit_Shaping the Practice and the Future of Brain FitnessFinal­ly, you may want to try this brain teas­er to test your mul­ti-task­ing abil­i­ties…and, if you are inter­est­ed in all these top­ics for pro­fes­sion­al rea­sons, please con­sid­er join­ing us at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th) — you can reg­is­ter with a 10% dis­count using pro­mo­tion­al code: sharp2014

Have a great month of October!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Alzheimers-disease, anxiety, brain, Brain-health, Brain-Training, cognitive-exercises, cognitive-therapy, medications, Mind-Fitness, mindfulness, neuroscience, stress-reduction, therapy

The neuroscience of positive, vision-based coaching

April 21, 2014 by Greater Good Science Center

Good coach­es get results, respect, and awards. But what makes a coach or men­tor good?

One school of thought says they should hold their mentees to spe­cif­ic per­for­mance bench­marks and help them reach those bench­marks by tar­get­ing their per­son­al weaknesses.

But new research sug­gests a dif­fer­ent tack—namely, to nur­ture a mentee’s strengths, aspi­ra­tions for the future, and goals for per­son­al growth. Indeed, [Read more…] about The neu­ro­science of pos­i­tive, vision-based coaching

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain-scans, coaching, empathy, stress-reduction, visual-processing

Transcript: Online Q&A on the Future of Brain Health with Alvaro Fernandez

March 16, 2012 by SharpBrains

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today, Fri­day March 16th, on brain sus­tain­abil­i­ty, retool­ing brain health, and applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Sharp­Brains’ Co-Founder who’s just been named a Young Glob­al Leader by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. You can learn more about the top­ic by read­ing this 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Meet­ing Report and this Info­graph­ic.

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Great, we are ready to start!  [Read more…] about Tran­script: Online Q&A on the Future of Brain Health with Alvaro Fernandez

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: biofeedback, brain, Brain-Fitness, brain-gym, Brain-health, Brain-Training, Brainology, Canada, cogmed, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, Cognitive-Training, Education & Lifelong Learning, heart-rate-variability, innovation, lifespan, meditation, Mental-Health, neuroplasticity, NIMH, Pearson, productivity, schizophrenia, Singapore, status quo, stress-reduction, Thomas Insel, UK, working-memory-training, World-Economic-Forum, Young Global Leaders

Transcript: Paul Nussbaum on Meditation, Neuropsychology and Thanksgiving

November 23, 2011 by SharpBrains

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion yes­ter­day on holis­tic brain health with clin­i­cal neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Paul Nuss­baum, author of Save Your Brain. You can learn more about the full Brain Fit­ness Q&A Series Here.

Per­haps one of the best exchanges was: [Read more…] about Tran­script: Paul Nuss­baum on Med­i­ta­tion, Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy and Thanksgiving

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: AARP, Alzheimers-Prevention, amygdala, Andrew-Newberg, baby-boomers, behaviors, biofeedback, Books, brain, Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-training, Brain-health, brain-reserve, Breathing, Buddha's Brain, caregivers, chronic-stress, clinical, clinical-neuropsychologist, cognition, cognitive-decline, cognitive-function, cognitive-improvement, cognitive-therapy, Cognitive-Training, Computerized-cognitive-training, computerized-training, consumer, creativity, dementia, depression, EEG, enhanced brain function, frontal-lobe, genes, happiness, heart-rate-variability, hippocampus, holistic, immune function, Improv, insurance reimbursement, learning potential, Mark Waldman, medical, meditate, meditation, mental checkup, mental-stimulation, nature, neocortex, neural plasticity, neuroanatomy, neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology, neurotheology, NIH, Nutrition, occupational therapy, optimism, Physical-activity, positive thinking, post-stroke depression, prayer, public-health, relaxation, socialization, speech therapy, spirituality, stress-reduction, wellness program, yoga

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