Mindfulness – a slimming technique which gives results without starving yourself Doctors and psychologists agree that paying full attention to the present moment and the pleasure of eating will let you get back to a healthy and straightforward relationship with food. It’s an internal “mindfulness” experiment that we will now describe. Re-establish contact with your senses The practice of mindfulness is about using a set of mental exercises to be…
A new American study, appearing in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, confirms that mindfulness meditation can help to manage stress and negative emotions Mindfulness meditation Is it pseudo science, just a trendy phenomenon arising in response to present-day problems? Meditation has as many detractors as it does committed followers, but more and more of the latter. Say “meditation” and everybody has a mental image of somebody in the lotus…
The very word ‘mindfulness’ has taken an impressive upward shift in popularity in recent years, even though there is nothing particularly ‘new’ about the concept of being mindful. In today’s somewhat chaotic society, it comes as no surprise that people are turning to the idea of mindfulness as a way to relax, escape, and truly find a deeper meaning within themselves. Once reserved as a sort of ‘yoga slang’ for…