Sara Lazar

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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

How to change your brain’s stress response

February 18, 2015

I’d like to tell you the story of an apprehensive pack of lab rodents that have been able to teach us something profound about stress. If you’ve seen my film The Connection you will have heard a little about these animals, which were studied by scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences. In … Read full article »

fight or flight, meditation, mind-body medicine, mindfulness, National Center for Biological Sciences, neuroscience, News, Rats, Sara Lazar, stress, stress reduction

Why Google is Giving Me Hope

February 4, 2015

You would expect the business card of a man who was one of the first people to be employed by Google to read Head Programmer or Manager of Digital Innovation, but when Chade-Meng Tan handed me his card, it gave him the title of ‘Jolly Good Fellow’ with a subtitle ‘Which nobody can deny.’ … Read full article »

autodesk, Chade-Meng Tan, Comcast, corporate meditation, corporate mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, Ford, Google, Jon Kabat-Zinn, LinkedIn, meditation, Microsoft, mind-body medicine, mindfulness, Nestle, News, News Limited, Sara Lazar, Search Inside Yourself, Search Inside Yourself Sydney, Suncorp

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My Year Of Living Mindfully – Book

SHIPS IN AUSTRALIA IN 1-2 DAYS. SHIPS INTERNATIONALLY IN 5-7 DAYS. From the director of the internationally acclaimed documentary of the same name, MY YEAR OF LIVING MINDFULLY is a book filled with compelling stories, groundbreaking science, and unexpected insights that go to the heart of what it me Read full article »

The Connection (DOWNLOAD-TO-OWN)

Download 'The Connection' to keep forever. WHAT YOU GET DRM free MP4 download of ‘The Connection’ (73 Mins) Free access to stream of 'The Connection' for 14 days via your downloads page. Please use this option for watching the film on any iOS devices. Subtitles: French, German, Italian, Portuguese & Read full article »

My Year of Living Mindfully (DOWNLOAD-TO-OWN)

Download My Year of Living Mindfully to keep forever. WHAT YOU GET: • A DRM free MP4 download of My Year of Living Mindfully (98 Mins). • Free access to stream My Year of Living Mindfully for 14 days via your downloads page. Please use this option for watching the film on any iOS devices • Subtitles Read full article »

My Year Of Living Mindfully (RENT STREAM)

Get a 14 day pass to stream My Year of Living Mindfully to your computer or smart device. Available in HD. WHAT YOU GET A 14 day pass to stream My Year of Living Mindfully (98 Mins) English Closed Captions are available with streaming Subtitles available in Italian / Portuguese / Spanish / Malay / H Read full article »