Mindfulness in a Frantic World

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy techniques for dissolving anxiety, stress, and unhappiness.

by Mark Williams, Ph.D., and Danny Penman, Ph.D.

Attitude Is More Important Than Your Actions

For many years, psychologists have known that: The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself. So today, why not try approaching your difficulties at work or at home in a different way by adopting a different spirit? Read More

The Seven Mindful Steps to Enhancing Your Life Expectancy

Last summer I went to a "life extension" conference at Cambridge University in the UK. Scientists from around the world had descended on this small English city to discuss ways of making immortality a reality...it struck me that the scientists at the conference had missed one of the most obvious ways of extending human life—mindfulness meditation. Read More

Beating Stress With a Downloadable Three Minute Breathing Space Meditation

The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself. So today, why not try approaching your difficulties at work or at home in a different way by adopting a different spirit? You can make a start by downloading our Three Minute Breathing Space meditation. Read More

Christmas Stress Relief: A Mindful Ten Day Guide

Christmas can be the most stressful time of the year, but it doesn't have to be this way... If you follow this ten step guide to ‘de-stressing' your Christmas then it just might become one of the most relaxing times of the year. What could be better than the Chocolate Meditation? Read More

How to Cope with Pain, Sickness and Death

Shortly after the British mountaineer George Mallory disappeared while attempting to climb Everest in 1924, a journalist asked why the team had continued with their assault on the summit on that fateful day. "The price of life is death," replied one of the survivors. That single sentence sums up the human condition more than any other. Read More

Mindfulness Meditation Will Make You Tougher Too

Mindfulness training has been proven to help relieve anxiety, stress and depression whilst boosting intelligence and creative thinking. This is all good news, but it's also necessary to have a degree of 'toughness' (we prefer the term 'resilience') to withstand life's knocks and kick-backs. So, could regular meditation make you 'too' nice? Read More

The Joy of Sneezing

A sneezing fit is probably one of the most emphatic ways of interrupting a meditation. So why not incorporate it into the meditation instead of worrying about it 'interrupting' you... Read More

Curing Depression with Mindfulness Meditation

Imagine if you could cure depression with a therapy that was effective, long-lasting and side-effect free Read More

The Chocolate Meditation

Mindfulness meditation is often seen as an austere practice. While simplicity has its place, it also pays to remember that Mindfulness is first and foremost about compassion towards yourself and to others. So it's time to lighten your soul by meditating while eating a bar of chocolate. What could be a better meditation for Mindfulness Day? Read More

Freeing Yourself from Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Exhaustion

It is possible to taste an alternative to the relentless struggle that pervades much of our daily lives. Recent scientific advances have discovered the secret of happiness and how you can successfully tackle anxiety, stress, exhaustion and even full-blown depression. It’s the kind of happiness that gets into your bones and promotes a deep-seated authentic love of life. Read More

Life Can be Relentless, Frantic and Exhausting – But it Doesn’t Have to be This Way

Mindfulness Meditation is often touted as a panacea for all manner of ailments from chronic pain to anxiety, stress and even depression. Like most sensible people, I've always taken such sweeping claims with a large pinch of salt. Five years ago, however, I learned the power of meditation for myself after a flying accident left me critically injured and in constant pain. Read More

Mindfulness in a Frantic World Bloggers

Danny Penman, Ph.D., is a feature and comment writer for the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper and has also worked for the BBC and New Scientist magazine.

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