Welcome back to our weekly blog on topics such as mindfulness, health and wellbeing. We hope you have been enjoying our recent series on how to meditate, experiences of meditation, and mechanisms of mindfulness. Today we will discuss the question ‘Is mindfulness a panacea?’ Let’s begin! Tracing perceptions of Mindfulness…

Welcome back to our weekly StudyStream blog, where we discuss aspects of mindfulness, health and wellbeing. We have been focussing the past few weeks on the mechanisms of mindfulness, and why or how mindfulness may produce some of the effects that it does. So far, we have covered the rhythm…

Welcome back to our weekly StudyStream blog, where we discuss aspects of mindfulness, health and wellbeing. We have been focussing the past few weeks on the mechanisms of mindfulness, and why or how mindfulness may produce some of the effects that it does. So far, we have covered the rhythm…

Welcome back to our weekly blog on mindfulness, health and wellbeing. Our current series is examining the ‘mechanisms of mindfulness’ — how might mindfulness produce some of the effects it claims it has? What does the scientific evidence tell us? Last week we learnt about how meditating, through focussing on…

Welcome back to our weekly blog on mindfulness, health and wellbeing. Our current series is examining the ‘mechanisms of mindfulness’ — how might mindfulness produce some of the effects it claims it has? What does the scientific evidence tell us? Last week we learnt about how the central mechanism of…

Welcome back to our StudyStream blog where we discuss topics in the field of mental health, mindfulness and wellbeing. In the past few blogs, we have discussed the background and the how-to of meditation, as well as some of the common experiences people have when meditating. …

Welcome back to the final part of this series on experiences of meditation, part of our weekly mindfulness and wellbeing blog here at StudyStream. We’ve covered lots of different aspects to our experience of meditation over the past few weeks. Today, we will cover other common experiences people may have…

Welcome back to our weekly blog, and this particular mini-series focussed on ‘experiences of meditation’, where we have been covering different aspects of our experience of meditation each week. Today, we will look a little more deeply into this concept called ‘connection’. Connection Think of a time someone really ‘got’…

Welcome back to our experiences of meditation series — part of our weekly mindfulness and wellbeing blog here at StudyStream. So far in this series we have discussed the ideas of thought defusion and of wise mind. Today, we will expand more on difficult and challenging experiences. …