Every time I turn around there is another article, or treatment regimen, or product encouraging the practice of mindfulness. Heavens knows I think it is helpful in a number of ways but of course my bias is that ‘practical is best.’. I love these small studies that seem to caste mindfulness practice in a very practical light. A researcher, J. David Cresswell, found in a very well designed study that folks who were out of work and learned a mindfulness practice benefitted in a neurophysiological way significantly more than another group of unemployed who received relaxation training. Both the relaxation group and the mindfulness reported feeling better. Something about mindfulness training though was more substantial and enduring in regions of the brain that light up with stress-related reactivity.
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