Research shows that inadequate coping skills for everyday stressors leads to a myriad of symptoms – from poor staff morale and employee absenteeism to teen substance abuse, depression, and anxiety.
Why Happiness is a Superpower
happify.com
Practicing mindfulness is one of the single most powerful things you can do for your wellbeing. This short video from Dan Harris and happify.com offers a simple, witty explanation of the power of mindfulness.
When Science Meets Mindfulness
The Harvard Gazette
In recent decades, public interest in mindfulness meditation has soared. Paralleling, and perhaps feeding, the growing popular acceptance has been rising scientific attention. The number of randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for clinical study — involving mindfulness has jumped from one in the period from 1995‒1997 to 11 from 2004‒2006, to a whopping 216 from 2013‒2015, according to a recent article summarizing scientific findings on the subject.
The Mindfulness Movement
PBS Documentary
Directed by Deepak Chopra and singer-songwriter Jewel, this documentary highlights the growing number of people of all ages and backgrounds who believe mindfulness is the key to making more moments matter in their lives and creating a healthier, happier world. The film also includes interviews with Dan Harris, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, George Mumford and many more.
Mindfulness and Management
Harvard Business Review
Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. Meditation practices have the capacity to calm the mind, relax the body, boost resilience, and even increase situational awareness. The study of mindfulness — often defined as paying attention, nonjudgmentally and on purpose — is a regular part of the creativity and wellness culture at firms around the world.
Future of Work: Mindfulness as a Leadership Practice
Jeanne Meister, Forbes
I first learned about mindfulness at the moment I needed it the most: I was referred to the mindfulness work of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, professor emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, by my surgeon after breaking both my ankle and top of my foot in an accident.
Mindfulness and Teenagers
the guardian
Psychologists and neuroscientists from Oxford University and University College London plan unprecedented trial of how mindfulness affects mental health.