This one shocked me! (sorry!) A study by Psychologists at Virginia and Harvard challenged people to sit and do nothing for 15 minutes. The only alternative open to them during those 15 minutes was to give themselves an electric shock, which prior to the experiment they had agreed they would pay money to avoid. Two thirds of men and a…
We know chronic stress is bad for us as the body has no time to recover but research has shown another important correlation; between our belief that stress is bad for us and it’s negative impact on our body. A 1998 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Keller et al, asked 30,000 people in the US, do you think stress is…
This morning I lead a live meditation through Zoom, and we did the mountain meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn. JKZ is the father of modern-day mindfulness, and the founder of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and he wrote this mediattion as part of this 8 week mindfulness course. The mountain meditation is particularly relevant at this time as it…