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The Mindful Myth: It’s Not Actually About Relaxation

October 23, 2019

As a health journalist who writes about the science of the mind-body-health connection and who’s interviewed countless scientists on the subject, you would have thought that when I started making my new documentary about mindfulness, I would have known a thing or two. But just a few weeks into the endeavour I came across a … Read full article »

Herbert Benson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, meditation, mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), relaxation, relaxation response, Sara Lazar

How to Meditate – What type? How long? How often?

March 25, 2015

The benefits of meditation are being proven again and again by researchers around the world every day. Scientists have shown meditation can enhance your immune system, it can help you cope with chronic illness, and it can change your brain structure to help with anxiety, focus and attention. But in a world where we … Read full article »

Craig Hassed, Herbert Benson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, meditation, meditation research, mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), relaxation response, Sara Lazar, The Connection, transcendental meditation

Why Mondays Might Just Kill You

November 12, 2014

It was Monday morning. I was stuck in a hot car park with my husband and 18-month-old son. We were an hour out of Sydney. Our car was broken down. My email inbox was chock-a-block, there were a bunch of voicemails on my phone and I had a ‘To Do’ list as long as my … Read full article »

autoimmune, Dean Ornish, drugs, emotions, heart disease, meditation, mind-body medicine, Monday, News, relaxation response, stress

Two Simple Steps To Counter The Harmful Effects Of Stress

October 2, 2014

In the 1960s, a young cardiologist named Dr. Herbert Benson had been sneaking transcendental meditators through the back door of his lab at Harvard University to study what happened to their body when they meditated. The result of his work was one of the major breakthroughs in modern mind body medicine. Dr. Benson found … Read full article »

Herbert Benson, meditation, News, relaxation response, stress, The Connection, video

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