When your marriage isn't working, you may need to look into Denver marriage counseling for a little help. If possible, seek out a counselor who works with mindful meditation, which can really change the way your marriage works.
First, you need to know what mindful meditation is. This technique has been around for a very long time. It was originally a spiritual meditation method, but these days, we can use it to become much more aware of our thoughts and emotions, as well as other areas of our minds. It is actually a skill that anyone can develop. Many people don't understand that they are not their emotions and thoughts . . . rather these are mental phenomena. While we may feel that they define who we are, this is not true. By meditating, we can discover our true self and that's where therapy comes in. How does this help your marriage? Well, before you can work on problems as a couple, you have to realize that reacting to emotions with emotions is not going to help anything. The problem in many relationships is that they are based around emotions and thoughts. Thus, it makes sense that the relationship can feel as instable as our emotions are. Each person will need to take the time to practice mindful meditation and ensure that they have a firm grasp on who they are, apart from all the messy stuff that clutters up our minds. Once you know who you are and have sorted through the emotions and thoughts, you can start to work on your relationship with others. While this can work even if only one person meditates, it is infinitely more useful to have both partners in a marriage take part. Couples who work through their problems in a logical manner are much more likely to stay together. Attending Denver marriage counseling sessions that include guided meditation can really help couples move past the emotional responses to each other and identify something deeper within them. This is not something you will find in every counselor, so it can take a little time to find the perfect therapist for your needs. If you are interested in going beyond Bandaid solutions, then this could be a good option. Many people react badly to certain situations because they get carried away by their emotions. This is particularly true in a relationship where you can end up causing more harm than good by reacting emotionally to situations. This can be quite dangerous and if you want your marriage to survive, which most of us do, it's vital to separate the reactive mind from the reality of the situation. When you just react emotionally to something your spouse says, instead of being mindful and looking at the entire situation more objectively, fighting breaks out. If both partners are willing to take some time to learn this new technique, they can easily learn to avoid problems while dealing with each other. They are able to respond to each other without just reacting. You can find therapists that have studied this type of meditation over the years. Look for someone who has really studied, though, not just taken a short course in the concept. Many issues in marriage are caused by emotional reactions. By practicing mindful meditation, you can move past the most common problems that disrupt marriages and create a new reality, one that involves living peacefully and happily together. It usually takes a good Denver marriage counseling specialist who is familiar with this type of meditation. It isn't a popular specialty, though the uses are amazing. Taking the time to find someone to teach you will pay off in the long run. Need Denver marriage counseling? Dr. Wilson can help you find peace with your marriage partner through therapy and mindful meditation. http://marriage.ezinemark.com/mindful-meditation-and-couples-making-marriage-work-56033431fa0.html
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Our lives are filled with distractions -- email, Twitter, texting we're constantly connected to technology, rarely alone with just our thoughts. Which is probably why there's a growing movement in America to train people to get around the stresses of daily life. It's a practice called "mindfulness" and it basically means being aware of your thoughts, physical sensations, and surroundings. Tonight, we'll introduce you to the man who's largely responsible for mindfulness gaining traction. His name is Jon Kabat-Zinn and he thinks mindfulness is the answer for people who are so overwhelmed by life, they feel they aren't really living at all. Jon Kabat-Zinn: There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. Anderson Cooper: Is it being present? Jon Kabat-Zinn: It is being present. That's exactly what it is. Jon Kabat-Zinn CBS News Anderson Cooper: I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road, or something that's been in the past. Jon Kabat-Zinn: So ultimately all this preparing is for what? For the next moment, like the last moment, like, and then we're dead (laugh) so in a certain way... "There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness." Anderson Cooper: Oh God, this is depressing. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Are we going to experience while we're still alive? We're only alive now. Jon Kabat-Zinn, is an MIT-trained scientist who's been practicing mindfulness for 47 years. Back in 1979, he started teaching mindfulness through meditation to people suffering from chronic pain and illness. That program is now used in more than 700 hospitals worldwide. Anderson Cooper: So how can you be mindful in your daily life? Jon Kabat-Zinn: When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are you already like, "oh my God," your calendar pops into your mind and you're driven already, or can you take a moment and just lie in bed and just feel your body breathing. And remember, "oh yeah, brand new day and I'm still alive." So, I get out of bed with awareness, brush my teeth with awareness. When you're in the shower next time check and see if you're in the shower. Anderson Cooper: What do you mean check and see if you're in the shower? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Well, you may not be. You may be in your first meeting at work. You may have 50 people in the shower with you. Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness takes practice...a lot of people start with a training class to learn how to meditate. He agreed to teach us at a weekend retreat on yoga a remote mountaintop in northern California. When we arrived we were told there would be no television to watch, no Internet, not even an alarm clock. Anderson Cooper CBS News [Congressman Ryan: So I'm checking in.] The retreat was full of professionals - neuroscientists, business leaders, Silicon Valley executives. Before we began we all had to surrender our last ties to the outside world. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Put your devices in the basket. I'm contributing my MacBook Air and my iPhone. Happily. I wasn't exactly happy to give up my phone. I usually check emails several times an hour. [Kabat-Zinn ringing a bell.] Jon Kabat-Zinn: So let's take a few minutes and just settle into an erect and dignified posture. The retreat lasted three days and most of that time was spent just sitting there, silently meditating - with occasional guidance from Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn: There's no place to go. There's nothing to do. We're just asking you to sit and know that you are sitting. Knowing that you're sitting may sound simple...turns out...it's not. The mind constantly wanders. Jon Kabat-Zinn: The mind has a life of its own. It goes here and there. To not get lost in thought, Kabat-Zinn recommended focusing on the sensation of breathing in and out. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Can we actually ride with full awareness on the waves of the breath -- at the belly, at the nostrils and the chest. And then simply rest here in awareness. "Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work. Anderson Cooper: I miss my cell phone. I'm having withdrawal, I must say. Kabat-Zinn, who has written 10 books on mindfulness and led nearly a hundred retreats, describes meditation as a mental workout. Jon Kabat-Zinn: The mind wanders away from the breath and then you gently and nonjudgmentally just bring it back. Anderson Cooper: So it's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back. Jon Kabat-Zinn: It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations. After hours of meditating in 30-minute sessions it does get easier. Those waves of thought Kabat-Zinn described - they're still there but you get less distracted by them. At breakfast, we spent time relearning some of the very basic things in life - including how to eat food. Eating a meal in complete silence is a little awkward, but without conversation as a distraction...you taste more and eat less. This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking. Walking meditation CBS News Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing. Anderson Cooper: That's an ancient saying? Jon Kabat-Zinn: When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge. Congressman Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat, says mindfulness might look a lot like nothing, but he really believes it can change America for the better. He attended his first meditation retreat in 2008, just days after winning a grueling reelection campaign. "When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge." But being mindful at a retreat is one thing, we wondered if, back in Washington, Congressman Ryan ever worries about how all this looks... Tim Ryan: Well, you know, I can see myself in high school going, "Whoa. Stay away from those guys." (laugh) Anderson Cooper: So, how do you use it here on Capitol Hill? Tim Ryan: I'm on the budget committee, for example. There's a lot of conflict. And people say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I-- I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point." [Ryan in Congress Tim Ryan: Hey man.] You don't hear the words "calm" and "Congress" together very often, but Ryan is trying to change that. He hosts weekly meditation sessions open to members and staff of both parties. [Mindfulness leader: Now shifting the attention to take in the entire body.] Anderson Cooper: Have you gotten any Republican Congressmen in to meditate with you yet? Tim Ryan: No. [laugh] We're working on it. He's written a book about mindfulness and obtained a million dollars of federal funding to teach it to school children in his Ohio district. [Tim Ryan with kids in classroom Girl: I feel like we are calm right now. Tim Ryan: Yes you are.] Tim Ryan: I've seen it transform classrooms. I've seen it heal veterans. I've seen what it does to individuals who have really high chronic levels of stress and how it has helped their body heal itself. I wouldn't be willing to stick my neck out this far if I didn't think this is "The Thing" that can really help shift the country. Anderson Cooper: To some people though this may sound like kind of New Age gobbledygook? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Yeah, there's so many different compelling studies that are showing that this not New Age gobbledygook, this is potentially transformative of our health and well-being psychologically as well as physically. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress reduction. There have been a number of studies that show mindfulness can lead to those benefits, as well as improvements in memory and attention. And, at the University of Massachusetts, Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, uses mindfulness to treat addiction. Judson Brewer: This is just the next generation of exercise. We've got the physical, you know, exercise components down. And now it's about working out how can we actually train our minds. Dr. Brewer is trying to understand how mindfulness can alter the functioning of the brain. He uses a cap lined with 128 electrodes. Anderson Cooper CBS News Judson Brewer: We going to start filling each of these 128 wells with conduction gel. The electrodes are able to pick up signals from the posterior cingulate, part of a brain network linked to memory and emotion. Judson Brewer: This is all just picking up electrical signal from the top of your head. Since attending the mindfulness retreat, I'd been meditating daily and was curious to see if it had an impact on my brain. Judson Brewer: We're going to have you start with thinking of something that was very anxiety provoking for you. Anderson Cooper: OK. When I thought about something stressful, the cells in my brain's posterior cingulate immediately started firing -- shown by the red lines that went off the chart on the computer screen. Judson Brewer: Just drop into meditation. Anderson Cooper: OK. When I let go of those stressful thoughts, and re-focused on my breath...within seconds the brain cells that had been firing quieted down -- shown by the blue lines on the computer. Anderson Cooper: That's really fascinating to see it like that. Dr. Brewer believes everyone can train their brains to reach that blue, mindfulness zone, but he says, all the technology we're surrounded by makes it difficult. Judson Brewer: If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it. Anderson Cooper: You really think there's something in the brain that's addicted to that? Judson Brewer: Well, it's the same reward pathways as addiction, absolutely. Anderson Cooper: I'm on mobile devices all day long. I feel like I could go through an entire day and not be present. Judson Brewer: And what's that like? Anderson Cooper: It's exhausting. Judson Brewer: So all of this is leading to a societal exhaustion. The irony is, many of the people responsible for creating the gadgets that distract us are themselves practicing mindfulness. More than 2,000 people from companies like Google, Facebook and Instagram showed up earlier this year in San Francisco for a mindfulness conference called Wisdom 2.0. [Announcer: Please welcome our guests.] Karen May is a Google vice president, and that's Chade-Meng Tan a former engineer whose become kind of a mindfulness guru. And as could only happen at a place like Google, his actual title is "Jolly Good Fellow." Chade-Meng Tan: Which nobody can deny. Anderson Cooper: So, what does a Jolly Good Fellow do? Chade-Meng Tan: My job description is to enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace. Anderson Cooper: That's your job description? Chade-Meng Tan: That's my job description. Anderson Cooper: I've heard that at some meetings at Google you actually start out with moments of silence. Karen May: We do. Anderson Cooper: How long do sit there quietly for? Karen May: It's literally a minute or two of noticing your breathing, calming yourself down, being present. And then you're able to go into the meeting, the business at hand, with a little bit more focus. Anderson Cooper: Does it make people more productive? Chade-Meng Tan: Yes, it does. When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving. Anderson Cooper: --to innovate? Chade-Meng Tan: Correct. And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand. So along with their free health clubs and other company perks...Google now offers their 52,000 employees free lessons in mindfulness. Chade-Meng Tan: In the middle of stress, when everything is falling apart. You can take one breath. Anderson Cooper: I can imagine some people rolling their eyes and saying, "Oh, come on, of course, like, you know, at Google, you guys have tons of money, there's massage therapists walking around and all sorts of nice things for employees, but it just doesn't seem practical." Karen May: The advantage of this is it actually doesn't cost anything and it doesn't take much time. Anderson Cooper: And you believe it really works? Karen May: I absolutely believe it works. After nearly four decades of teaching mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn is happy to see it hitting the mainstream. But if you're starting to think mindfulness is something you should start practicing, he says you may be missing the point. Jon Kabat-Zinn: It's not a big should. It's not like, "Oh I gotta, now one more thing that I have to put in my life. Now I have to be mindful." Anderson Cooper: And if it becomes that one more thing they gotta do after they take the yoga class? Jon Kabat-Zinn: They shouldn't do it. Just don't do it. Don't do it. It's not a doing at all, in fact, it's a being. And being doesn't take any time. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mindfulness-anderson-cooper-60-minutes/ The following is a script from "Mindfulness" which aired on Dec. 14, 2014. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Denise Schrier Cetta, producer. Matthew Danowski , editor.
Our lives are filled with distractions -- email, Twitter, texting we're constantly connected to technology, rarely alone with just our thoughts. Which is probably why there's a growing movement in America to train people to get around the stresses of daily life. It's a practice called "mindfulness" and it basically means being aware of your thoughts, physical sensations, and surroundings. Tonight, we'll introduce you to the man who's largely responsible for mindfulness gaining traction. His name is Jon Kabat-Zinn and he thinks mindfulness is the answer for people who are so overwhelmed by life, they feel they aren't really living at all. Jon Kabat-Zinn: There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. Anderson Cooper: Is it being present? Jon Kabat-Zinn: It is being present. That's exactly what it is. Jon Kabat-Zinn CBS News Anderson Cooper: I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road, or something that's been in the past. Jon Kabat-Zinn: So ultimately all this preparing is for what? For the next moment, like the last moment, like, and then we're dead (laugh) so in a certain way... "There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness." Anderson Cooper: Oh God, this is depressing. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Are we going to experience while we're still alive? We're only alive now. Jon Kabat-Zinn, is an MIT-trained scientist who's been practicing mindfulness for 47 years. Back in 1979, he started teaching mindfulness through meditation to people suffering from chronic pain and illness. That program is now used in more than 700 hospitals worldwide. Anderson Cooper: So how can you be mindful in your daily life? Jon Kabat-Zinn: When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are you already like, "oh my God," your calendar pops into your mind and you're driven already, or can you take a moment and just lie in bed and just feel your body breathing. And remember, "oh yeah, brand new day and I'm still alive." So, I get out of bed with awareness, brush my teeth with awareness. When you're in the shower next time check and see if you're in the shower. Anderson Cooper: What do you mean check and see if you're in the shower? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Well, you may not be. You may be in your first meeting at work. You may have 50 people in the shower with you. Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness takes practice...a lot of people start with a training class to learn how to meditate. He agreed to teach us at a weekend retreat on a remote mountaintop in northern California. When we arrived we were told there would be no television to watch, no Internet, not even an alarm clock. Anderson Cooper CBS News [Congressman Ryan: So I'm checking in.] The retreat was full of professionals - neuroscientists, business leaders, Silicon Valley executives. Before we began we all had to surrender our last ties to the outside world. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Put your devices in the basket. I'm contributing my MacBook Air and my iPhone. Happily. I wasn't exactly happy to give up my phone. I usually check emails several times an hour. [Kabat-Zinn ringing a bell.] Jon Kabat-Zinn: So let's take a few minutes and just settle into an erect and dignified posture. The retreat lasted three days and most of that time was spent just sitting there, silently meditating - with occasional guidance from Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn: There's no place to go. There's nothing to do. We're just asking you to sit and know that you are sitting. Knowing that you're sitting may sound simple...turns out...it's not. The mind constantly wanders. Jon Kabat-Zinn: The mind has a life of its own. It goes here and there. To not get lost in thought, Kabat-Zinn recommended focusing on the sensation of breathing in and out. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Can we actually ride with full awareness on the waves of the breath -- at the belly, at the nostrils and the chest. And then simply rest here in awareness. "Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work. Anderson Cooper: I miss my cell phone. I'm having withdrawal, I must say. Kabat-Zinn, who has written 10 books on mindfulness and led nearly a hundred retreats, describes meditation as a mental workout. Jon Kabat-Zinn: The mind wanders away from the breath and then you gently and nonjudgmentally just bring it back. Anderson Cooper: So it's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back. Jon Kabat-Zinn: It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations. After hours of meditating in 30-minute sessions it does get easier. Those waves of thought Kabat-Zinn described - they're still there but you get less distracted by them. At breakfast, we spent time relearning some of the very basic things in life - including how to eat food. Eating a meal in complete silence is a little awkward, but without conversation as a distraction...you taste more and eat less. This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking. Walking meditation CBS News Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing. Anderson Cooper: That's an ancient saying? Jon Kabat-Zinn: When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge. Congressman Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat, says mindfulness might look a lot like nothing, but he really believes it can change America for the better. He attended his first meditation retreat in 2008, just days after winning a grueling reelection campaign. "When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge." But being mindful at a retreat is one thing, we wondered if, back in Washington, Congressman Ryan ever worries about how all this looks... Tim Ryan: Well, you know, I can see myself in high school going, "Whoa. Stay away from those guys." (laugh) Anderson Cooper: So, how do you use it here on Capitol Hill? Tim Ryan: I'm on the budget committee, for example. There's a lot of conflict. And people say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I-- I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point." [Ryan in Congress Tim Ryan: Hey man.] You don't hear the words "calm" and "Congress" together very often, but Ryan is trying to change that. He hosts weekly meditation sessions open to members and staff of both parties. [Mindfulness leader: Now shifting the attention to take in the entire body.] Anderson Cooper: Have you gotten any Republican Congressmen in to meditate with you yet? Tim Ryan: No. [laugh] We're working on it. He's written a book about mindfulness and obtained a million dollars of federal funding to teach it to school children in his Ohio district. [Tim Ryan with kids in classroom Girl: I feel like we are calm right now. Tim Ryan: Yes you are.] Tim Ryan: I've seen it transform classrooms. I've seen it heal veterans. I've seen what it does to individuals who have really high chronic levels of stress and how it has helped their body heal itself. I wouldn't be willing to stick my neck out this far if I didn't think this is "The Thing" that can really help shift the country. Anderson Cooper: To some people though this may sound like kind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPR1I1qF6DA of New Age gobbledygook? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Yeah, there's so many different compelling studies that are showing that this not New Age gobbledygook, this is potentially transformative of our health and well-being psychologically as well as physically. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress reduction. There have been a number of studies that show mindfulness can lead to those benefits, as well as improvements in memory and attention. And, at the University of Massachusetts, Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, uses mindfulness to treat addiction. Judson Brewer: This is just the next generation of exercise. We've got the physical, you know, exercise components down. And now it's about working out how can we actually train our minds. Dr. Brewer is trying to understand how mindfulness can alter the functioning of the brain. He uses a cap lined with 128 electrodes. Anderson Cooper CBS News Judson Brewer: We going to start filling each of these 128 wells with conduction gel. The electrodes are able to pick up signals from the posterior cingulate, part of a brain network linked to memory and emotion. Judson Brewer: This is all just picking up electrical signal from the top of your head. Since attending the mindfulness retreat, I'd been meditating daily and was curious to see if it had an impact on my brain. Judson Brewer: We're going to have you start with thinking of something that was very anxiety provoking for you. Anderson Cooper: OK. When I thought about something stressful, the cells in my brain's posterior cingulate immediately started firing -- shown by the red lines that went off the chart on the computer screen. Judson Brewer: Just drop into meditation. Anderson Cooper: OK. When I let go of those stressful thoughts, and re-focused on my breath...within seconds the brain cells that had been firing quieted down -- shown by the blue lines on the computer. Anderson Cooper: That's really fascinating to see it like that. Dr. Brewer believes everyone can train their brains to reach that blue, mindfulness zone, but he says, all the technology we're surrounded by makes it difficult. Judson Brewer: If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it. Anderson Cooper: You really think there's something in the brain that's addicted to that? Judson Brewer: Well, it's the same reward pathways as addiction, absolutely. Anderson Cooper: I'm on mobile devices all day long. I feel like I could go through an entire day and not be present. Judson Brewer: And what's that like? Anderson Cooper: It's exhausting. Judson Brewer: So all of this is leading to a societal exhaustion. The irony is, many of the people responsible for creating the gadgets that distract us are themselves practicing mindfulness. More than 2,000 people from companies like Google, Facebook and Instagram showed up earlier this year in San Francisco for a mindfulness conference called Wisdom 2.0. [Announcer: Please welcome our guests.] Karen May is a Google vice president, and that's Chade-Meng Tan a former engineer whose become kind of a mindfulness guru. And as could only happen at a place like Google, his actual title is "Jolly Good Fellow." Chade-Meng Tan: Which nobody can deny. Anderson Cooper: So, what does a Jolly Good Fellow do? Chade-Meng Tan: My job description is to enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace. Anderson Cooper: That's your job description? Chade-Meng Tan: That's my job description. Anderson Cooper: I've heard that at some meetings at Google you actually start out with moments of silence. Karen May: We do. Anderson Cooper: How long do sit there quietly for? Karen May: It's literally a minute or two of noticing your breathing, calming yourself down, being present. And then you're able to go into the meeting, the business at hand, with a little bit more focus. Anderson Cooper: Does it make people more productive? Chade-Meng Tan: Yes, it does. When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving. Anderson Cooper: --to innovate? Chade-Meng Tan: Correct. And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand. So along with their free health clubs and other company perks...Google now offers their 52,000 employees free lessons in mindfulness. Chade-Meng Tan: In the middle of stress, when everything is falling apart. You can take one breath. Anderson Cooper: I can imagine some people rolling their eyes and saying, "Oh, come on, of course, like, you know, at Google, you guys have tons of money, there's massage therapists walking around and all sorts of nice things for employees, but it just doesn't seem practical." Karen May: The advantage of this is it actually doesn't cost anything and it doesn't take much time. Anderson Cooper: And you believe it really works? Karen May: I absolutely believe it works. After nearly four decades of teaching mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn is happy to see it hitting the mainstream. But if you're starting to think mindfulness is something you should start practicing, he says you may be missing the point. Jon Kabat-Zinn: It's not a big should. It's not like, "Oh I gotta, now one more thing that I have to put in my life. Now I have to be mindful." Anderson Cooper: And if it becomes that one more thing they gotta do after they take the yoga class? Jon Kabat-Zinn: They shouldn't do it. Just don't do it. Don't do it. It's not a doing at all, in fact, it's a being. And being doesn't take any time. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mindfulness-anderson-cooper-60-minutes/ One of the exciting things about life is that we don't have to stay the same as we are right now; we can re-invent ourselves at any time. For example, we can decide to become healthier, whether that's through eating better, getting fitter, breaking unhealthy habits or addictions, or by cultivating greater peace of mind and emotional resiliency. However, we all too often make these types of self-improvement plans when we're in a low mood. Maybe we've been eating too much junk food lately, and so we think to ourselves, 'Oh god, I'm so fat. I must go on a diet!' rather than having a kinder thought such as, 'I want to start eating more mindfully.' When we make health plans from a place of self-loathing we often set unrealistic and unkind goals for ourselves. This means we are unlikely to achieve them, and even less likely to have a nice time along the way! A Check-List for Mindful Goal-Setting Whatever our health goals may be, it's important to ask ourselves these questions before we set out on achieving them. Is my goal realistic? Say we want to stop eating unhealthily, and so we come up with the goal of giving up chocolate and sweets completely. It might work; we might indeed have the will power to never touch the sweet stuff again. But alternatively it might be really difficult! So difficult in fact, that we fail terribly, end up binging on them, and then feel even worse about ourselves than before. Instead of banishing sweets from our lives altogether, why not just get more mindful about eating them? We can treat ourselves now and again vinyasa to a small portion, and practice really savouring it while we eat. We're still moving towards our health goals, but in a more realistic way. Is my goal kind? We want to lose weight quickly, and so we decide to live on smoothies alone for a month, or we sign up for the toughest, most physically gruelling boot camp we can find. Yet these kinds of goals seem more like punishments than ways to help ourselves enjoy life more. When we don't like how we look or behave, it can feel impossible to treat ourselves kindly. We may feel that we don't deserve kindness; that because we're overweight, depressed, addicted to something, that means we're bad. But imagine that your friend wanted to lose weight, or that your child was suffering with depression, or that your beloved was struggling with an addiction. It's unlikely that we would say to them the things we say to ourselves. Would we really say to a friend, 'My god, you're disgusting! You should starve yourself for a week!' When setting goals, it's useful to imagine that we are helping a friend set those goals instead. Imagine the kindness and gentle encouragement you would feel for your loved ones, and incorporate that level of care and compassion into your own goal-making. Make those goals self-nurturing: for example, instead of 'I don't want to be fat any more' try changing it to 'I want to nurture my body with healthy food and exercise.' How will I treat myself when I stumble? We might be doing really well with our plans, but then one major upset has us reaching for the junk food or cigarettes again. In these moments it feels like all our hard work has been for nothing! This is where self-compassion can really shine and make all the difference, because it's at these times of perceived failure that we're most likely to give up on our goals completely. Mindfulness helps us see that life is a series of moments. Rather than mentally remaining stuck in a previous moment where we mindlessly scoffed a whole pizza, we can 'refresh' ourselves and become new again in the here and now. This can help us forgive ourselves for slipping up, because what's done is done, and now this is a new moment. It helps us see that we can begin again, and again, and again if needed, because each new moment is a fresh opportunity to get back on track. Do I really need to achieve this goal? Do we actually need to lose weight, or is it just that our thoughts about our body are very negative at the moment? When our minds are clouded, it can be hard to judge what is true. Yet through practicing mindfulness, we are more able to take a step back from our thoughts and see them more clearly. If we're already at a healthy weight, perhaps it's not our body that we need to change, but our thoughts about it, and how we treat it. An effective way of exploring the truth behind our desired goals is to place your hand on your heart, to close your eyes, and really tap into how your goals make you feel. Are they coming from self-compassion, or self-hatred? Are they moving you forward into health, or holding you in a cycle of guilt and shame? By exploring our self-beliefs and inner dialogue, we can find out where our goals are really coming from, and whether we should put them into practice. Learn how to treat yourself with more self-compassion on our 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. Click here to read more. https://www.londonmindful.com/blog Anderson Cooper dove headfirst into the world of mindfulness in a segment on Sunday night's "60 Minutes". "This is just the next generation of exercise, we've got the physical, you know, exercise components down, and now it's http://whateverlife.com/lotus-flow-yoga-workout-with-kate-duyn-cariati-yoga-videos-on-whateverlife/ about working out how can we actually train our minds," Dr. Judson Brewer told Cooper of mindfulness. Dr. Brewer is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Massachusetts. Cooper attended a mindfulness retreat and learned about the benefits of meditation, then met with Dr. Brewer and saw that the benefits of meditation are clearly visible via neurological measurements. After thinking of something anxiety-provoking, Cooper begins meditating and on-screen instruments show brain cells instantly reacting to the mindfulness technique. As Cooper explains, "Dr. Brewer believes everyone can train their brains to reach that blue mindfulness zone. But he says all the technology we're surrounded by makes it difficult." Watch the clip from "60 Minutes" above (via CBS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/14/60-minutes-mindfulness_n_6324184.html Research shows that yoga and meditation reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Reported by Dr. Katie Guttenberg for ABC News: Though the practices of yoga and meditation have their roots in ancient cultures, they've both become modern day movements. More than 20 million Americans meditate regularly, according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey. More than 13 million do yoga. To explore the health benefits of meditation and yoga, Dr. Richard Besser, chief health and medical correspondent for ABC News, hosted a tweet chat Tuesday. He invited experts from top hospitals and research centers, including the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the University of Wisconsin, the Cleveland Clinic and Harvard Medical School, as well as respected yoga authorities from the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Mass., and West Hartford Yoga in Connecticut. Click here for the full transcript of the chat. Read on for the highlights. What is meditation and what does the science say about its benefits for the brain and body? Many forms of meditation evolved from ancient religious and spiritual traditions, said the NCCAM. Although practices vary today, most meditation techniques aim to train attention and awareness to help bring thoughts under control. Studies show vinyasa yoga how helpful a regular meditation practice can be for relieving pain, anxiety and stress. Although a series of University of Wisconsin studies have found meditation can benefit patients with chronic inflammatory disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, more research is needed to understand its role in the treatment of chronic health conditions. What is yoga and how can a regular practice help me keep healthy? There are more than 200 schools of yoga taught throughout the world. All of them aim to connect the mind and body through careful breathing and movement. As with meditation, studies find that regularly doing downward dogs and warrior poses can help manage stress and anxiety. There's even some evidence that yoga can help fight cancer-related fatigue, manage high-blood pressure and ease chronic pain, especially joint pain. For example, studies by the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle found that after several weeks of taking yoga classes, subjects reported fewer backaches and greater lower-back mobility. Any advice for yoga newbies? Don't let an instructor push you past your comfort zone. Listen to your body. All our experts agreed that the most important advice for yogis at any level. If you've got any sort of chronic medical condition, are pregnant or haven't done any sort of exercise in a while, it's a good idea to check in with your doctor before taking up a yoga practice. For people who are stressed out by tragic events in the news like the tornado that ripped through the Moore, Okla., can meditating help? Since meditation - and yoga for that matter - promote relaxation, it can definitely help manage the emotions that bubble up after hearing bad or disturbing news. There's some evidence that a few moments of quiet reflection is especially helpful for people who suffer from anxiety and depression to begin with. And the group dynamic of a yoga class can bring people together and not feel so alone after a tragedy. Join us on June4, at 1 p.m., ET, for our next health tweet chat on preventing breast cancer. Click here to learn how. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/05/22/yoga-meditation-benefit-both-brain-and-body/ The following is a script from "Mindfulness" which aired on Dec. 14, 2014. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Denise Schrier Cetta, producer. Matthew Danowski , editor.
Our lives are filled with distractions -- email, Twitter, texting we're constantly connected to technology, rarely alone with just our thoughts. Which is probably why there's a growing movement in America to train people to get around the stresses of daily life. It's a practice called "mindfulness" and it basically means being aware of your thoughts, physical sensations, and surroundings. Tonight, we'll introduce you to the man who's largely responsible for mindfulness gaining traction. His name is Jon Kabat-Zinn and he thinks mindfulness is the answer for people who are so overwhelmed by life, they feel they aren't really living at all. Jon Kabat-Zinn: There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. Anderson Cooper: Is it being present? Jon Kabat-Zinn: It is being present. That's exactly what it is. Jon Kabat-Zinn CBS News Anderson Cooper: I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road, or something that's been in the past. Jon Kabat-Zinn: So ultimately all this preparing is for what? For the next moment, like the last moment, like, and then we're dead (laugh) so in a certain way... "There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness." Anderson Cooper: Oh God, this is depressing. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Are we going to experience while we're still alive? We're only alive now. Jon Kabat-Zinn, is an MIT-trained scientist who's been practicing mindfulness for 47 years. Back in 1979, he started teaching mindfulness through meditation to people suffering from chronic pain and illness. That program is now used in more than 700 hospitals worldwide. Anderson Cooper: So how can you be mindful in your daily life? Jon Kabat-Zinn: When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are you already like, "oh my God," your calendar pops into your mind and you're driven already, or can you take a moment and just lie in bed and just feel your body breathing. And remember, "oh yeah, brand new day and I'm still alive." So, I get out of bed with awareness, brush my teeth with awareness. When you're in the shower next time check and see if you're in the shower. Anderson Cooper: What do you mean check and see if you're in the shower? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Well, you may not be. You may be in your first meeting at work. You may have 50 people in the shower with you. Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness takes practice...a lot of people start with a training class to learn how to meditate. He agreed to teach us at a weekend retreat on a remote mountaintop in northern California. When we arrived we were told there would be no television to watch, no Internet, not even an alarm clock. Anderson Cooper CBS News [Congressman Ryan: So I'm checking in.] The retreat was full of professionals - neuroscientists, business leaders, Silicon Valley executives. Before we began we all had to surrender our last ties to the outside world. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Put your devices in the basket. I'm contributing my MacBook Air and my iPhone. Happily. I wasn't exactly happy to give up my phone. I usually check emails several times an hour. [Kabat-Zinn ringing a bell.] Jon Kabat-Zinn: So let's take a few minutes and just settle into an erect and dignified posture. The retreat lasted three days and most of that time was spent just sitting there, silently meditating - with occasional guidance from Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn: There's no place to go. There's nothing to do. We're just asking you to sit and know that you are sitting. Knowing that you're sitting may sound simple...turns out...it's not. The mind constantly wanders. Jon Kabat-Zinn: The mind has a life of its own. It goes here and there. To not get lost in thought, Kabat-Zinn recommended focusing on the sensation of breathing in and out. Jon Kabat-Zinn: Can we actually ride with full awareness on the waves of the breath -- at the belly, at the nostrils and the chest. And then simply rest here in awareness. "Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work. Anderson Cooper: I miss my cell phone. I'm having withdrawal, I must say. Kabat-Zinn, who has written 10 books on mindfulness and led nearly a hundred retreats, describes meditation as a mental workout. Jon Kabat-Zinn: The mind wanders away from the breath and then you gently and nonjudgmentally just bring it back. Anderson Cooper: So it's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back. Jon Kabat-Zinn: It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations. After hours of meditating in 30-minute sessions it does get easier. Those waves of thought Kabat-Zinn described - they're still there but you get less distracted by them. At breakfast, we spent time relearning some of the very basic things in life - including how to eat food. Eating a meal in complete silence is a little awkward, but without conversation as a distraction...you taste more and eat less. This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking. Walking meditation CBS News Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing. Anderson Cooper: That's an ancient saying? Jon Kabat-Zinn: When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge. Congressman Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat, says mindfulness might look a lot like nothing, but he really believes it can change America for the better. He attended his first meditation retreat in 2008, just days after winning a grueling reelection campaign. "When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge." But being mindful at a retreat is one thing, we wondered if, back in Washington, Congressman Ryan ever worries about how all this looks... Tim Ryan: Well, you know, I can see myself in high school going, "Whoa. Stay away from those guys." (laugh) Anderson Cooper: So, how do you use it here on Capitol Hill? Tim Ryan: I'm on the budget committee, for example. There's a lot of conflict. And people say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I-- I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point." [Ryan in Congress Tim Ryan: Hey man.] You don't hear the words "calm" and "Congress" together very often, but Ryan is trying to change that. He hosts weekly meditation sessions open to members and staff of both parties. [Mindfulness leader: Now shifting the attention to take in the entire body.] Anderson Cooper: Have you gotten any Republican Congressmen in to meditate with you yet? Tim Ryan: No. [laugh] We're working on it. He's written a book about mindfulness and obtained a million dollars of federal funding to teach it to school children in his Ohio district. [Tim Ryan with kids in classroom Girl: I feel like we are calm right now. Tim Ryan: Yes you are.] Tim Ryan: I've seen it transform classrooms. I've seen it heal veterans. I've seen what it does to individuals who have really high chronic levels of stress and how it has helped their body heal itself. I wouldn't be willing to stick my neck out this far if I didn't think this is "The Thing" that can really help shift the country. Anderson Cooper: To some Power Yoga people though this may sound like kind of New Age gobbledygook? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Yeah, there's so many different compelling studies that are showing that this not New Age gobbledygook, this is potentially transformative of our health and well-being psychologically as well as physically. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress reduction. There have been a number of studies that show mindfulness can lead to those benefits, as well as improvements in memory and attention. And, at the University of Massachusetts, Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, uses mindfulness to treat addiction. Judson Brewer: This is just the next generation of exercise. We've got the physical, you know, exercise components down. And now it's about working out how can we actually train our minds. Dr. Brewer is trying to understand how mindfulness can alter the functioning of the brain. He uses a cap lined with 128 electrodes. Anderson Cooper CBS News Judson Brewer: We going to start filling each of these 128 wells with conduction gel. The electrodes are able to pick up signals from the posterior cingulate, part of a brain network linked to memory and emotion. Judson Brewer: This is all just picking up electrical signal from the top of your head. Since attending the mindfulness retreat, I'd been meditating daily and was curious to see if it had an impact on my brain. Judson Brewer: We're going to have you start with thinking of something that was very anxiety provoking for you. Anderson Cooper: OK. When I thought about something stressful, the cells in my brain's posterior cingulate immediately started firing -- shown by the red lines that went off the chart on the computer screen. Judson Brewer: Just drop into meditation. Anderson Cooper: OK. When I let go of those stressful thoughts, and re-focused on my breath...within seconds the brain cells that had been firing quieted down -- shown by the blue lines on the computer. Anderson Cooper: That's really fascinating to see it like that. Dr. Brewer believes everyone can train their brains to reach that blue, mindfulness zone, but he says, all the technology we're surrounded by makes it difficult. Judson Brewer: If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it. Anderson Cooper: You really think there's something in the brain that's addicted to that? Judson Brewer: Well, it's the same reward pathways as addiction, absolutely. Anderson Cooper: I'm on mobile devices all day long. I feel like I could go through an entire day and not be present. Judson Brewer: And what's that like? Anderson Cooper: It's exhausting. Judson Brewer: So all of this is leading to a societal exhaustion. The irony is, many of the people responsible for creating the gadgets that distract us are themselves practicing mindfulness. More than 2,000 people from companies like Google, Facebook and Instagram showed up earlier this year in San Francisco for a mindfulness conference called Wisdom 2.0. [Announcer: Please welcome our guests.] Karen May is a Google vice president, and that's Chade-Meng Tan a former engineer whose become kind of a mindfulness guru. And as could only happen at a place like Google, his actual title is "Jolly Good Fellow." Chade-Meng Tan: Which nobody can deny. Anderson Cooper: So, what does a Jolly Good Fellow do? Chade-Meng Tan: My job description is to enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace. Anderson Cooper: That's your job description? Chade-Meng Tan: That's my job description. Anderson Cooper: I've heard that at some meetings at Google you actually start out with moments of silence. Karen May: We do. Anderson Cooper: How long do sit there quietly for? Karen May: It's literally a minute or two of noticing your breathing, calming yourself down, being present. And then you're able to go into the meeting, the business at hand, with a little bit more focus. Anderson Cooper: Does it make people more productive? Chade-Meng Tan: Yes, it does. When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving. Anderson Cooper: --to innovate? Chade-Meng Tan: Correct. And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand. So along with their free health clubs and other company perks...Google now offers their 52,000 employees free lessons in mindfulness. Chade-Meng Tan: In the middle of stress, when everything is falling apart. You can take one breath. Anderson Cooper: I can imagine some people rolling their eyes and saying, "Oh, come on, of course, like, you know, at Google, you guys have tons of money, there's massage therapists walking around and all sorts of nice things for employees, but it just doesn't seem practical." Karen May: The advantage of this is it actually doesn't cost anything and it doesn't take much time. Anderson Cooper: And you believe it really works? Karen May: I absolutely believe it works. After nearly four decades of teaching mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn is happy to see it hitting the mainstream. But if you're starting to think mindfulness is something you should start practicing, he says you may be missing the point. Jon Kabat-Zinn: It's not a big should. It's not like, "Oh I gotta, now one more thing that I have to put in my life. Now I have to be mindful." Anderson Cooper: And if it becomes that one more thing they gotta do after they take the yoga class? Jon Kabat-Zinn: They shouldn't do it. Just don't do it. Don't do it. It's not a doing at all, in fact, it's a being. And being doesn't take any time. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mindfulness-anderson-cooper-60-minutes/ Nintendo Switch will be sold without preorders at Best Buy and Target on launch day - BGR
If you weren't one of the fortunate few to get your Nintendo Switch preorder in at a big box store before they all sold out, you're going to have a chance to rectify that mistake this weekend. GameStop revealed last week that it would have a limited supply of Switch consoles available for walk-in customers at its midnight launch events on March 3rd, and now Best Buy and Target have announced that they will do the same. Don't Miss: AT&T just overhauled its unlimited plans after only 10 days: Everything you need to know In an email from a Best Buy spokesman on Monday, BGR was informed that customers who didn't preorder a Switch will be able to buy one on a first-come, first-served basis on launch day. There will be a ticket system in place for customers waiting in line, and Best Buy will only pass out as many tickets as there are consoles. Over 600 Best Buy stores across the country will open at 12:01 a.m. local time to sell the Switch. You can check to see which Best Buy stores in your area are participating in the midnight launch event at this website. If your store isn't hosting a midnight event, the Switch will be available as soon as the store opens on Friday. If you'd rather not fight a crowd at midnight on a week night, you can try Target instead. A promotional flier shared on Reddit this weekend notes that limited quantities https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1194755117244397&id=883889591664286 of the Nintendo Switch will be available on Friday, March 3rd when the retailer opens at 8 a.m. No word on midnight launches, so this might be your best bet if you'd rather take the morning off of work or school to go wait in line for one. Nintendo has said repeatedly that it is prepared to replenish stock frequently in the coming weeks and months, but if you want one on launch day, didn't place a preorder and don't want to pay over the odds on eBay or the like, you're almost certainly going to have to wait in line on Thursday night or Friday morning. The Nintendo Switch launches on March 3rd for $299.99. Read our preview impressions. Tags: Best Buy, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, target http://bgr.com/2017/02/27/nintendo-switch-release-date-best-buy-target-preorders/ |
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