In his new book, The Way of Mindful Education, Daniel Rechtschaffen argues that there is something simple that can be done to help change this: teaching mindfulness in schools. Rechtschaffen, a leading mindfulness educator and founder of the Mindful Education Institute, believes that mindfulness training can increase social-emotional skills—like attention, empathy, forgiveness, and impulse control—that help improve the classroom social climate and increase academic performance for kids. Research on mindfulness has proliferated in recent decades, and the results are promising, according to Rechtschaffen....

For me, the answer to that question is that I care deeply about our environment. My first memory of my appreciation and deep love for the earth is me at age five walking on the St. Augustine, Florida shoreline with my father. We walked barefoot, admiring the sound of the waves, and watching the tide go in and out. My dad would place shiny seashells on the sand in front of me to find, and I would squeal with delight as I picked up each precious treasure....

At study’s end, adults in the MT group reported being better able to manage their emotions and showed greatly improved information-processing speed compared to the other two groups. These results are promising, as the mindfulness exercises used can be practiced regardless of physical ability, making them easily accessible to most people with MS. Mindfulness Beats Breast Cancer Survivors’ Insomnia The stress following a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment can lead to sleep troubles....

4 Steps to Change a Habit for Good 4 Steps to Change a Habit for Good Step 1: Mindfulness What are habits? Habits are behaviors that become automatic because they have been performed frequently in the past. This repetition or automaticity creates a mental association between the situation (cue) and action (behavior). Automaticity is the opposite of mindfulness. Research suggests that 45% of our behaviors are repeated almost daily (1). Mindfulness is paying attention in the present moment....

Do note that you can save emails only from the desktop client. So, you won’t be able to do it from your smartphone. Well, you can, if you open Gmail via the browser while being in desktop mode. The point is, you can’t do it via the Android app, unfortunately. We’ll explain how you can do that down below. We’ll also include some screenshots so that you can follow along, and do it yourself....