by mjosa | Apr 25, 2016 | Live Blogging the Book, Mindfulness, Science and Spirituality |
Everyone’s heard of mindfulness these days – stress reduction programs based on a secularized meditation practice have proliferated across many domains. How did this happen? Vipassana –or mindfulness meditation– was once slightly suspect, a habit of hippies, an exotic...
by mjosa | Apr 20, 2016 | Live Blogging the Book, Science and Spirituality |
Compelling statistics document an increasing proportion of Americans visiting alternative health practitioners in addition to seeing their physicians. Studies also show that patients are unlikely to tell their medical doctors about their visits to the chiropractor,...
by mjosa | Apr 15, 2016 | Live Blogging the Book, Science and Spirituality |
I’ve been writing a section of Chapter 3 (“Science and Culture Moving Forward”) on how scientific research is opening the door to ideas that used to be considered very “woo woo.” So this week I’ve been doing FUN reading in the...
by mjosa | Apr 14, 2016 | Live Blogging the Book, Science and Spirituality |
I had planned to write a single chapter, “Moving Toward Mindfulness,” that would cover three streams: secular approaches, the yoga boom, and growth of American Buddhism. But — suprise! that’s too much to cover in one chapter. So, the current...
by mjosa | Apr 13, 2016 | Live Blogging the Book |
“How’s the book coming?” I get asked (repeatedly) by family and friends. “Good,” I say. “Great, when will we get to read it?” Ah, I’m thinking . . . that’s hard to say. I spend more time researching than I do...
