Mindfulness

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    New Evidence That Therapy Can Make You Happier

    • By Jim Davies
    What are the interventions that are supposed to make us happier? What doesn’t work? And if something does work, how much good does it do?Pixabay Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In “All Eyes on Me,” a song from his new Netflix special Inside, the musician-comedian Bo Burnham pauses […]
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    A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias

    • By Jim Davies
    Would you like to be more rational? Of course you would. Who doesn’t want to behave and think more reasonably? Good news: New research, from Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, suggests mindfulness, or at least an aspect of it, can help. By “mindfulness”—a feature of Buddhism for thousands of years, and a subject of scientific investigation […]
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    The Problem with Mindfulness

    • By Brian Gallagher
    Should we be mindful of how popular “mindfulness” now is? Carl Erik Fisher says we should. Fisher is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and a practicing psychotherapist who integrates meditation in his practice, and meditates himself. But he worries some popular meditation practices, which stress salvation through a clear mind, undermine the […]
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