Age is supposed to bring wisdom, but sometimes we can learn important life lessons from children. A study by researchers at Jacksonville University and the University of California, Davis, published in the journal Child Development, showed that even kindergarteners know that thinking positively will make you feel better. In the study, researchers looked at 90 [...]
by Terry A. Rondberg, DC, president, World Chiropractic Alliance I’ve written often before about the many physical, mental and emotional benefits of meditation (see list of previous posts below), so it’s of great interest that another research study has added to the mountain of evidence. The latest, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy [...]
Two years ago, UCLA researchers discovered that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control group. This suggested that meditation could be good for all of us since our brains naturally get smaller with age. Now, there’s a follow-up study, [...]
The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness (UCSD CFM) at UC San Diego Health System has begun offering a novel program to help people dealing with chronic pain “train their brains” to lessen their experience of discomfort, and in some cases, eliminate it. Called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the in-depth eight-week program helps participants [...]
A new emphasis on the link between the way we think and how our bodies feel echoes what chiropractors have been saying for more than a century, that health comes from “the inside-out.” While the medical industry focuses on treating disease, DCs aim at allowing the brain and neurologic activity to regulate function to achieve [...]
