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Mind-Body

The arts of Tai Chi and Tai Chi Chih, meditation, stress management guidance, and other techniques to enhance self-awareness.

• Combating Stressful Eating with Mindfulness
  Mindful eating involves developing a healthy and enjoyable relationship with food by experiencing the pleasure of food and being fully present during meals. This article explores how this practice can be used to reduce stress and to improve digestive health and eating behaviors.
  
• Defining Stress
  What is stress? Moreover, what are the causes of stress and the long-term consequences on our health? This article explores the topic of stress in-depth and provides a means of viewing stress from an Integrative East-West perspective.
  
• Tai Chi Increases Brain Size, Improves Memory, Combats Alzheimer’s
  Researchers have shown that regular practice of Tai Chi increases brain volume, augments memory and thinking skills, and may combat dementia.
  
• Meditation Facilitates Cerebral Optimization, Study Reveals
  Researchers have discovered that a form of mindfulness meditation called IBMT, integrative body-mind training, significantly improves mood and may actually facilitate neurogenesis.
  
• Mindfulness Training on Neural Responses to Stress in Older Adults
  Lisa J. Burklund presents how interventions such as cognitive-behavioral therapies and mindfulness meditation training may enhance emotion processing.
  
• Simple Stress Management as Easy as 1, 2, 3
  Easy and fun mind-body exercises, that include breathing techniques and massage, practicable any time of day.
  
• A 5-Minute Meditation Session
  Diana Winston from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) guides you through a 5-minutes mindful meditation.
  
• New Approaches to Understand the Mindful Brain
  Individuals who practice mindful meditation have less overall anxiety and less pain-related anxiety.
  
• Tai Chi Chih Improves Resilience, Quality of Life, and Cognitive Function
  Study shows that consistent practice of Tai Chi Chih improves resilience, quality of life, and cognitive function in depressed older adults.
  
• The Effects of Tai Chi Chih on Immunity and Sleep
  Tai Chi Chih not only calms the mind but also promotes healthy aging by improving viral immunity and sleep quality.