18 Science-Backed Reasons to Try Loving-Kindness Meditation

This is a helpful and extremely accessible list of 18 scientific reasons to practce loving-kindness meditation. People can so easily dismiss such practices as “wooly” or pseudo-scientific psycho-babble. Yet, the fact is that TONS of research has gone into the effects of loving-kindness meditation. Loving-kindness meditation focuses on developing feelings…

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change

Just came across a paper from Steven C. Hayes, Jacqueline Pistorello and Michael E. Levin on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change. Here’s the abstract: The present article summarizes the assumptions, model, techniques, evidence, and diversity/social justice commitments of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT…

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Evaluating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Never let it be said that we are biased! Of course, ACT is not perfect. Neither is it without its detractors. This research article in The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy (2011, Vol. 7, No. 1, 55–67) evaluates a recent critique of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Written by…

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