Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing

Google Tech Talks
March 8, 2007

ABSTRACT

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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[iamgoddard]

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

[NoCommentChick]

I bet he wishes he hadn't used Lance Armstrong for all those examples now.

[gdarrietjones]

I alas find its the stupidest/worse thing ever to tell people with anxiety and stress that if you have prolonged anxiety and stress, it'll reduce your life span

[Tyler Miller]

Stress? Triple "Ha!". Just some weed or sensestamps taken in good company help more than all those doctors together.

[jackdtroughton]

People invested their emotions in a frankly unhealthy media image that he represented to them, and they discovered he did not synchronize with their expectations. A lot of people let themselves down.

[Sun Moon]

Dalai Lama is Buddhist. Does he represent all the Buddhist in this world ? How ?

[01Bouwhuis]

Fortunately we always have BATMAN!!

[toddthedrysocket]

Lance let a lot of people down.