Mindfulness in a Frantic World

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

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

Mindfulness Could Be a Powerful Painkiller

If you suffer from chronic pain, then you might find relief from an unlikely source—mindfulness meditation.

Mindfulness May Enhance the Performance of US Special Forces

A new study shows that mindfulness reduced anxiety and stress in US Special Forces. Can even the most elite performers benefit from mindfulness training?

Is Awe Our Most Underrated and Powerful Emotion?

Awe calms the mind and soothes the spirit. It defuses anxiety, stress, and unhappiness, while sparking curiosity and creativity. It's also easy to inspire.

Can Mindfulness Help Relieve Tinnitus?

One in seven people will suffer from tinnitus at some point in their lives and yet its causes are unknown and treatments are only partially effective. Mindfulness offers new hope.

Can You Reduce Anxiety and Stress by the Way You Breathe?

Dissolve anxiety, stress, and unhappiness, enhance your mind, and unleash your creativity with these simple breathing exercises.

Is Correct Breathing the Secret to Living Mindfully?

Dissolve anxiety, stress and unhappiness. Enhance your mind and unleash your creativity with these simple breathing exercises.

Is Empathy Our Most Dangerous and Self-Indulgent Emotion?

You can harness empathy for good or evil and it carries with it a slight tinge of entertainment or even voyeurism. Shouldn't we cultivate compassion instead?

What Exactly Is Mindfulness? It’s NOT What You Think.

Mindfulness is so much more than meditation. The real meditation is your life.

Should You Try To "Get Over" Grief?

Grief is overwhelming. It is painful beyond measure. Should you active try to "get over" it?

How to Relieve Chronic Pain With Mindfulness

Relieve chronic pain, reduce stress and restore wellbeing with week three of our mindfulness meditation course. Recent clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can reduce chronic pain and suffering by 90 percent....

Can Mindfulness Really Reduce Chronic Pain?

Pain, suffering and stress can be intolerable – but it doesn’t have to be this way. The second week of our t three-week course reveals a series of simple practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as prescription painkillers. We

Can Mindfulness Meditation Really Reduce Pain and Suffering?

Recent clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can reduce pain and suffering by 90 percent. This three-week course shows you how to begin.

Why I’ve Gone on a ‘Media Diet’

I’ve been feeling quite miserable lately for no apparent reason. I knew that this state of mind, like all others, would eventually pass. Nevertheless, I decided to embrace the feelings and probe their origins. It led me to a surprising conclusion...

Meditate Just Like The U.S. Marines

The US Marines have embraced mindfulness meditation to help them cope with anxiety, stress, depression, pain and exhaustion. Have they gone 'soft' or is it their secret weapon in their fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda?

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?

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.

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.

Christmas Stress Relief: A Mindful Ten Day Guide

If you follow this 10-step guide to de-stressing your Christmas, then it just might become one of the most relaxing times of the year.

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?

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...

Curing Depression with Mindfulness Meditation

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

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?

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.

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