A video excerpt from Jack Kornfield’s video practice, Meditation for Beginners.
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Lecture by Amishi Jha, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Miami: Building Cognitive Resilience in High Stress Cohorts with Mindfulness Training.
May, 2009. Amishi Jha presents research on mindfulness training’s influence on attention and working memory to the Dalai Lama at the Mind and Life 2009 Conference in Dharamshala, India.
Respected brain researcher Amishi Jha brings a fascinating exploration of findings from cutting-edge neuroscience on the profound and positive effects of mindfulness practices on the brain, psychological health, wellness, and resilience.
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In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level.
Renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson is finding that happiness is something we can cultivate and a skill that can be learned. Working with the Dalai Lama, Davidson is investigating the far-reaching impact of mindfulness, meditation, and the cultivation of kindness on human health and well-being.
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