Mindfulness as alternative to drinking & depression

Beautiful first person case study in the Washington Post

Mindfulness Practice & Science

This WaPo article is a cautionary tale. [update Jan 2020:  but also read Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson; acknowledges the wealth of lower quality experiments and focuses on the much smaller number of those that are especially well designed and executed.]

Mindful Eating

WaPo article.

Mindfulness as a Life Changing Skill

 From Linda:

... a terrific video [on facebook] for mindfulness (and yoga) that perhaps our meditation attendees could check out before coming to their first class.