Mindfulness Research
UK on the Fast Track to Becoming a Mindful Nation
Inquiry examines the benefits of mindfulness in health care, education, the workplace, prisons, and more.
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Ed Halliwell is a mindfulness teacher and writer, based in Sussex and London, UK. He is author of three books: Into The Heart of Mindfulness, How To Live Well By Paying Attentionand (as co-author)The Mindful Manifesto and teaches courses and retreats to public groups, in organizations and to individuals, face-to-face and online via Skype. He is also an advisor to The Mindfulness Initiative, which is supporting the Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group to develop mindfulness-based policies for the UK.
Calm
Five Ways to Slow Down and Appreciate the Season
Take a break from the pre-Christmas rush with these short mindfulness practices from Ed Halliwell.
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Anxiety
One Simple Way to Get Out of “Doing” Mode
Want to give up the chase to get somewhere else and drop into the experience of now? One way to do that is to embrace silence, writes Ed Halliwell.
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Calm
Getting Over the Mindfulness Hype
Critiques against mindfulness tell us more about our over-driven society than the practice itself, says Ed Halliwell.
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Anxiety
Mindfulness Can’t Cure Everything. And That’s a Problem Why?
Does something beneficial have to be delivered perfectly—and to bring about a perfect world—before we will accept it as worthwhile?
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Anxiety
Can Mindfulness Transform Politics?
More on the new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness in the UK.
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Calm
7 Questions About Mindfulness That Still Need An Answer
Ed Halliwell on the next frontiers in mindfulness.
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Calm
Waking Up is Hard to Do—but that’s OK
Even those of us who’ve committed to this awakening can find it so uncomfortable that we repeatedly resist the bright light that meditation shines on our lives.
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Daily Practices
Mindful Movement
What mindful movement teaches us about our habitual patterns of thinking.
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Anxiety
Mindfulness: Not Just “Brain Training”
Ed Halliwell on why relying heavily on science won't tell us everything about mindfulness.
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