Anxiety
End the suffering of binge eating—one breath at a time
Self-compassion can interrupt an episode of overeating and prevent binge eating, according to a recent study.
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Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, and a leading expert in the new field of “science-help.”
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Violent Video Games Inhibit the Compassion Instinct
A study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology provides more evidence that violent video games desensitize players to violence, and makes them more violent in real life. This is not the first study to report such an effect; the evidence has been steadily accumulating over the last decade. But this study…
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Compassion
The Power of Self-Compassion
As I write this, the number one most emailed article on the New York Times is a blog post by Tara Parker-Pope on the importance of self-compassion for making a change such as losing weight or quitting smoking. Clearly the post strikes a chord among the typical…
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Your Brain on Meditation
Science has proven that meditating actually restructures your brain Kelly McGonigal tells us about the latest research—and how to put it into practice.
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