Mindfulness news updates May-June 2011

Hello, everyone. Below is a compilation of mindfulness news and feature stories from the last couple of months, taken from themindfulmanifesto.com. Enjoy... edx

June 2011

Towards a Mindful Society - an interview with Jon Kabat Zinn (mindful.org)

All in the Mind: Stress Special (including Mindfulness segment) (BBC Radio 4)

Mindfulness may ease irritable bowel symptoms (Reuters)

Integrative way: Hope for menopausal symptoms (Bellingham Herald)

How to cure shopping addiction (The Guardian)

Mindfulness and Horse therapy for veterans with PTSD (Daily Camera)

How UK musicians are working with mindfulness (Guardian)

Mindfulness can help us make more rational and compassionate financial decisions(Psychology Today)

Mindfulness can help with some menopausal symptoms. (Washington Post)

May 2011

Cancer survivors benefit from meditation: new data (mindful.org)

Mindful meditation might ease irritable bowel syndrome (US News)

It's time for your meditation - More than just an aid to wellbeing, the ancient discipline could soon be used to treat conditions from obesity to multiple sclerosis (Independent)

Meditation prescribed more often as alternative to conventional medicine, study finds(ABC News)

Mindfulness therapy fights stress and depression by teaching you how to 'own' the present (Daily Telegraph)