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Chronic Stress Is Toxic

It Undermines Physical and Mental Health; Contributes to Anxiety and Depression; Increases Burnout; Impacts Work Life and Family Life.

Stress is a major contributing factor to:

  • Professional "Burn Out"
  • Short temper & irritability
  • Depression or anxiety
  • Headaches
  • Muscle tension and pain
  • Heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke
  • Sleep problems
  • Weight gain
  • Memory and concentration impairment
  • Diabetes
  • Skin problems, such as acne or eczema
  • Menstrual problems
  • Immune system dysfunction
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Mindfulness is the Antidote

It Fosters Health and Wellness; Supports Emotional Resilience and Balance; Benefits Work, Family and Community.

Mindfulness can help you:

  • Be less stressed out at work, at home, in your life
  • Cope better with chronic illness and pain.
  • Relief of distress related to life's challenges & crises.
  • Improved emotional regulation.
  • Relief of anxiety and depression.
  • Increased emotional resiliency.
  • Personal growth.
  • Enhanced Quality of Life.
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Introducing Mindfulness

The essentials in three One-Hour  classes.  Developed by the Oxford Mindfulness  Centre (Oxford University, UK) for those not ready to commit to an eight week course.  Introducing Mindfulness is evidence based and an effective introduction for people with no prior meditation experience. Learn how mindfulness can support you in everyday life. 

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Introducing Mindfulness

The essentials in three One-Hour  classes.  Developed by the Oxford Mindfulness  Centre (Oxford University, UK) for those not ready to commit to an eight week course.  Introducing Mindfulness is evidence based and an effective introduction for people with no prior meditation experience. Learn how mindfulness can support you in everyday life. 

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

The definitive eight-week course developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 to support patients who weren’t getting full benefit from standard medical treatment.  MBSR is an intensive introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful living. Now offered at more than 750 medical centers world-wide. 

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Recent Blog Posts

A Brief (3-minute) Mindfulness Intervention Demonstrates Reduced Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Hospital Nursing Staff

I focus on this study for three reasons:
1) It is brief and potentially replicable as an intervention in other settings at minimal cost.
2) The Intervention – the Three Minute Breathing Space – has demonstrated efficacy and is easily taught.
3) The study author was taught to teach the Three Minute Breathing Space by one of the authors of the intervention, Zindel Siegal of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
4) I

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Mindfulness, Attention, & High Stress – Training Our Minds To Strengthen Our Resilience.

In this podcast Dr. Amishi Jha describes the brain’s attention system as “the lifeblood of our experience”. Using fMRI, EEGs, and behavioral measures she studies the brain’s ability to notice and focus on specific information, both external and internal, the degradation caused by stress, and how mindfulness training can strengthen and improve attention, especially for nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers.

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Mindfulness Based Interventions May Benefit Prostate Cancer Survivors

Here is an interesting Case Report and discussion of the potential benefits of Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) in men with prostate cancer. Given the numbers of men affected the need for interventions is clear. Prostate cancer, despite its extent, has had low visibility compared to the socially more popular support for breast cancer.

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Why I Blog & How I blog

My primary reason for blogging is to share what I am reading (listening to or watching) with my web site visitors. I do this to make my web site more interesting and more useful. I may use SciSummary, an AI program optimized for summarizing scientific articles to produce a draft summary in language which is less formal than scientific research. I further edit the summary for clarity, brevity, and add comments reflecting my perspective on

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Costs of Chronic Stress

  • Professional “Burn Out”
  • Short temper & irritability
  • Depression or anxiety
  • Headaches
  • Muscle tension and pain
  • Heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke
  • Sleep problems
  • Weight gain
  • Memory and concentration impairment
  • Diabetes
  • Skin problems, such as acne or eczema
  • Menstrual problems
  • Immune system dysfunction

Costs of Chronic Stress

  • Professional “Burn Out”
  • Short temper & irritability
  • Depression or anxiety
  • Headaches
  • Muscle tension and pain
  • Heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke
  • Sleep problems
  • Weight gain
  • Memory and concentration impairment
  • Diabetes
  • Skin problems, such as acne or eczema
  • Menstrual problems
  • Immune system dysfunction