Calm
Can Gratitude Help Couples Through Hard Times?
New research suggests that thanking our partners for supporting us through hardship may increase their joy and satisfaction in giving.
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Science
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Anxiety
When the Mind Goes Dark
When depression hits, can meditating help you work through it? Maybe, but not always. Psychologists weigh in on when mindfulness therapies can (and can’t) help to ease depression.
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Meditation
The Difference Between Healing and Fixing in the Practice of Mindfulness
We often hear that mindfulness doesn’t “work” when we use it as a means to an end. Here, Genevieve Tregor explains why mindfulness loses its impact when we use it in small "bandage" doses instead of weaving the practice into our daily lives.
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Focus
The Surprising Benefits of Teaching a Class Outside
A new study finds that a class in nature helps kids be more attentive and focused once they return indoors.
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Focus
The Quest to Live Forever
Some scientists are working on making the last stages of life a little healthier, others are trying to extend life, and still others are hoping to make death obsolete.
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Focus
Using Science to Start a Conversation
Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce on the importance of questioning everything we think we know.
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Anxiety
How Mindfulness May Change the Brain in Depressed Patients
Harvard researchers use brain scans to explore how 8-weeks of training in present-moment awareness might break the cycle of self-rumination.
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Health
The Medicine of the Moment
The simple practice of paying attention is making inroads in medicine through habit change, stress reduction, self-care, and decreasing physician burnout.
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Anxiety
A Major Turning Point for Mindfulness in Health Care
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, comments on the first medical school division dedicated to studying the impact of meditation.
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Calm
Could Mindfulness Help You Control Your Anger?
New studies suggest that mindfulness may help us keep our cool during relationship conflicts.
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