“In order to stand with us, and people that look like me, you have to be educated on issues that pertain to me,” he says. The whole video is well worth a watch—here are just three of the understandings Acho shares to help us increase our empathy so that we can act from deeper understanding and solidarity toward racial justice. 3 Ways to Better Understand Racial Struggle 3 Ways to Better Understand Racial Struggle...

Dr. Teasdale, one of the pioneers in the development of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, presented this new model at the International Symposium for Contemplative Studies, held in Denver in April 2012. At the core of the model, a product of nearly twenty years of work, is the idea that the human brain/mind has two ways to process information. One of these, termed “propositional,” involves using concepts and conventional logic. In this mode we divide the world into categories and use comparisons to make judgments and decisions....

Although research on mindfulness, especially with children and adolescents, is still in relatively early stages, an increasing number of studies have shown the potential benefits of mindfulness practices for students’ physical health, psychological well-being, social skills, academic performance, and more. Other studies have indicated that mindfulness may be effective for reducing stress and burnout in teachers and administrators as well. The following list of selected articles, with brief descriptions of each study and its results, provides an overview of the current research on mindfulness in education....

“So what’s it like, being in the waiting room, while he’s in here with me?” The question caught me off guard. I had logged a lot of hours in waiting rooms by this time, on a quest to help my young child manage his anxiety. No doctor had ever asked me such a thing, or even how I was doing. I stammered through a pat answer: I felt fine. He was in good hands....

Did you know that over 50 percent of the workforce in the US says Job Stress is a major problem in life? This is twice as much as ten years ago. We also have 50 percent greater healthcare expenditures and corporations are losing over $300 Billion annually because of work-related stress! What’s going on here? Let’s look at stress. Stress is simply a mental and often physical reaction to a perceived threat or change....