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Uploaded by on Jul 24, 2007

Google Tech Talks
March 8, 2007

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Jon will describe the revolution in medicine that has occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating one's experience, reducing stress, healing the body, coping more effectively with emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression, and cultivating greater well-being and happiness. His work has been instrumental in bringing Buddhist meditative practices, as he likes to say, "without the Buddhism" to full acceptance within the mainstream of medicine, psychology, and health care, and has shown them to be effective in people suffering from a wide range of medical...

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  • Since this video was posted, a new study finds that mindfulness meditation may exert the positive effect on telomeres that Jon posits (9:24), and so it could extend health- or even life-span. It reads:

    "Telomerase activity is a predictor of long-term cellular viability... we investigated the effects of a 3-month meditation retreat on telomerase activity... This is the first study to link meditation and positive psychological change with telomerase activity."

    @ PubMed(dot)com Enter: 21035949

  • really looking forward to this

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  • Tenseing each major muscle group and then relaxing that muscle is important for the Hans Selye approach.

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