Having expressed my ambivalence toward the practice of mindfulness the other day I felt I should report this post from the Scientific American blog by Tom Ireland. MRI scans show that after an eight-week course of mindfulness practice, the brain’s “fight or flight” center, the amygdala, appears to shrink. This primal region of the brain, …
Daily Archives: June 15th, 2014
Grieving
Up until last August I only knew of Erik Meyer as a CSS guru (that’s Cascading Style Sheets — web stuff) but then his daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour and over the last year he has been writing about his family’s experience. It seems wrong to say so but he has written that …