I discovered ScholarMatch this year, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite non-profit 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 [...]
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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 [...]
Watch: Yoga for Depression and Anxiety
Kelly McGonigal, PhD, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, shares research trends on how yoga and meditation support mental health and recovery from anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic pain, and trauma. Presented at the 2011 International Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research in Asilomar, CA. (30 min)
Learn: Yoga for Pain Relief
Yoga Offers New Hope for Chronic Pain by Kelly McGonigal This article originally appeared in Yoga International, and is an adaptation of material from the book Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Strategies for Calming Your Mind and Healing Your Pain (New Harbinger). There are few things more frustrating to a person with chronic pain than [...]
Watch: What Science Can Teach Us About Meditation Practice
Presented at the Buddhist Geeks conference in Los Angeles, CA, July 30, 2011. Stanford psychologist and meditation teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, describes recent research in how meditation practice changes the brain and reduces suffering, including physical pain and depression. (20 min)
Toronto Yoga Conference 2012
Below are the resources I prepared for my sessions/intensives at the 2012 Toronto Yoga Conference. Enjoy! PDFs of Slide Shows: Strengthening the Heart with Compassion Intensive Slide Show: CompassionIntensiveSLIDES (for the full text PDFs of studies mentioned in this slideshow, see http://ccare.stanford.edu/publications/articles) The Science of Willpower Slide Show: WillpowerIntensiveSLIDES The Science of Meditation Slide Show: [...]
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