The Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education is launching a new teacher certification program. I am co-running this program, and will be co-teaching the core classes as ...
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Science Help for Better Sex, Weight Loss, Getting Out of Debt, Stress-Free Parenting, & More
Whatever your New Year’s Resolution, there’s a science-help book for you. You’ll get great advice mixed in with the funniest, most fascinating stories and studies science can provide. I put together my favorite science-help books for every possible New Year’s Resolution. Check out the slide show on the Huffington Post’s Books Section. [Excerpted Below] The [...]
Listen: All About Willpower (National Public Radio)
Download/stream this 1-hour radio interview on the NPR show “The People’s Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon” (Original Broadcast: 1/1/12) About the show: At the start of a new year, many of us resolve to adopt a healthier lifestyle. We plan to quit smoking if we haven’t already; or we intend to get into a [...]
Listen: Why Do We Lack Willpower?
Earlier this summer I had fun contributing to a special episode of “Strange Animal,” a weekly radio show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that is a bit like National Public Radio’s fantastic “Radio Lab” show. The show asks the question: “Why do we lack willpower?” and talks to three psychologists: myself, procrastination researcher Tim Pychyl, [...]
Watch: Four Yoga Exercises for Back Pain Relief
Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Strategies to Calm Your Mind and Heal Your Pain, takes the hosts of ABC’s View from the Bay through four yoga exercises that relieve back pain, and explains why yoga is so helpful for chronic pain.
Listen: “Where Science and Compassion Meet”
We’re joined this week by Dr. Kelly McGonigal, to discuss her work at Stanford University, where she is teaching compassion-based practices from the Buddhist tradition, taught in a way that pulls from scientific research and appeals to a secular sensibility. As part of her work with CCARE she shares some of her background with Stanford [...]
Watch: The Power of Self-Compassion
Stanford health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, and senior teacher for the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, discusses the importance of self-compassion for happiness, mental health, and personal success. Part of the 2011 Stanford University Happiness Conference on Feb 12, 2011. [13 min video]
Contribute: Scholar Match
I discovered ScholarMatch this year, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite non-profite organizations. ScholarMatch is a website where potential donors can learn more about students who need assistance paying their college tuition. As a donor, you can choose the student you want to support or let ScholarMatch choose a specific student for you, and you [...]
Learn: How Mindfulness Supports Weight Loss
Read “Mindfulness & Weight Loss” (IDEA Fitness Journal), which won the 2011 Best Trade Magazine Article from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Learn: The Science of Willpower
Registration for The Science of Willpower (Jan-Mar 2012) through Stanford Continuing Studies is now open. From STANFORD Magazine October 2011 By Marina Krakovsky Early in Kelly McGonigal’s eight-week Continuing Studies course on the science of willpower, a middle-aged woman sitting in the large auditorium raised her hand and questioned whether the willpower challenges the instructor [...]
Learn: This Is Your Brain on Meditation
Science is demonstrating how meditation restructures your brain and can train it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more. Kelly McGonigal tells us about the latest research—and how to put it into practice. This article originally appeared in Yoga Journal.
Watch: Yoga for Pain Relief
Stanford health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of Yoga for Pain Relief, gave this lecture as part of the Stanford Healthy Library’s “Doctors Speak” series. Learn more about how yoga and meditation can help reduce headaches, back pain, anxiety, and other forms of chronic pain and stress (70 min)
Learn: Healing the Whole Person
It’s caring, it’s cost-effective, and it works. Is integrative medicine the future of health care? Kelly McGonigal explores this emerging field of medicine. This article originally appeared in the Jan 2011 issue of Shambhala Sun. In 1998, Jeffrey Brantley, MD, was knocking on colleagues’ doors, trying to raise the visibility of a new project. He [...]
The Science of Willpower Blog on Psychology Today
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- A Question to Help Procrastinators, Hedonists, and Reality TV Addicts
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