Book review and recommendation of “The Willpower Instinct” by Kelly McGonigal
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Dan Harris goes through the 3 basic steps of meditation in a 90 second exercise.
How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.
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Dr. Erika Ebbel Angle discusses why the gut microbiome is the most important organ you’ve probably never heard of. The gut is the second brain, and gut health affects your overall health.
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Sensei José Shinzan Palma explains how our meditation practice can help us change the world.
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Excerpt from the PBS special Meditation for All of Us with Stephan Bodian - Clip 3
Excerpt from the PBS special Meditation for All of Us with Stephan Bodian- Clip 1
Sheila Rubin, LMFT is an adjunct professor in the somatic psychology program at JFK University. In this brief clip, she shares how she likes to teach - from the felt sense of the "inside out" - in the Somatic Psychology program.
In this first part of a series of short meditation instructions, Elizabeth focuses on the body, or posture, as well as how our attitude toward meditation influences how we sit.
Over the coming weeks on A Lust for Life our intention is to get as many of you as possible meditating every day, helping you to establish a daily practice. We are hugely passionate about helping you to learn to meditate because we know from personal experience that the benefits are life changing.