By Knowledge@Wharton — 2014
Adam Grant interviews Arianna Huffington, who shares the small steps anyone can take to rebalance their priorities, and how she is encouraging her employees to do the same.
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Are you having unusually realistic dreams? Here’s what science can tell you.
Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the “door close” button on the elevator aren’t crazy—just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT.
Whenever we learn something new, pick up a new skill, or modify our habits, the physical structure of our brain changes.
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The meditation-and-the-brain research has been rolling in steadily for a number of years now, with new studies coming out just about every week to illustrate some new benefit of meditation. Or, rather, some ancient benefit that is just now being confirmed with fMRI or EEG.
Couples’ fights in lockdown are often about the unremitting intensity of togetherness. The sooner you de-escalate a fight, the sooner you can begin working on real solutions.
Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk.
Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.
When neuroscientists tested expert meditators, they discovered something surprising: The effect of Buddhist meditation isn’t just momentary; it can alter deep-seated traits in our brain patterns and character.
Dr. Richard Davidson explains that well-being is a skill that can be practiced and strengthened.
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