US News and World Report: Last week, while trying to get downtown to a conference on integrating stress-reduction techniques into mainstream medicine, I felt my blood pressure rising. I was stuck in traffic, made several wrong turns that took me to the opposite side of the city, and entered a parking garage that turned out to be full—all causing me to miss a much-anticipated keynote speaker. When I finally got to the conference, I couldn’t get beyond my disappointment over missing the opening speaker and sat in the large lecture hall, halfheartedly taking notes and checking my BlackBerry every few minutes. Let’s just say I wasn’t fully present in the moment. At lunch, I decided to head to a roundtable discussion given by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a psychologist famous for developing a stress-reduction technique called mindfulness, which he’s described in several bestselling books. Can’t hurt, I figured, hoping that he’d begin the session with a little meditation. While he did not, in fact, lull me into meditative relaxation, he did very much get me to a mindful state of awareness. Read more here.
Learning to relax by paying attention
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