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Mindfulness is for people who want to be people, not ants or apes

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Here’s a Mindfulness newsletter, offering many resources for helping people in trauma, using fewer drugs and mechanical interventions. For example,

Mindfulness-based stress reduction in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Sep;34(5):578-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04758.x.

A randomised clinical trial of the effects of spiritually focused meditation for people with metastatic melanoma

Anger regulation in traumatized Cambodian refugees: the perspectives of Buddhist monks. (Cult Med Psychiatry. 2011 Sep;35(3):396-416.)

See also: Mindfulness in medicine a problem? PZ Myers thinks so

New Scientist dicovers mindfulness – as if the mind exists

The Spiritual Brain

Hat tip: Stephanie West Allen at Brains on Purpose

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