Psychology in Action

Tag: mindfulness

  • Outreach Event: Thought Suppression vs. Mindfulness!

    Outreach Event: Thought Suppression vs. Mindfulness!

     Irene Tung led the yellow jeep activity based on Wegner’s classic white bear psychology study! Infinity, pizza, spiders, shoes, pizza, iPhones, sleep, pizza, code names, iPads, games, pizza… When we asked elementary students to think about anything these were the responses. However, when we asked elementary students to think about anything but a yellow jeep, the…

  • Surrendering to Creativity; the Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 1 of 3)

    Surrendering to Creativity; the Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 1 of 3)

    The author’s dad, Yogaman Bill, letting go of anxiety and creating beauty on the beach. “Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender…” ~ The Bhagavad-Gita, p. 41             I stumbled upon this quote earlier this week, as I…

  • Outreach Event: Mindfulness Meditation!

    Jenna introduced the idea of stress management to the youth – and they were ready to hear more! If you were asked to do nothing for a minute, could you do it? What about being asked to smell a Hershey’s chocolate kiss but wait to eat it? Well, after this quarter’s Psychology in Action’s Outreach Program event children and…

  • The Neuroscience of Meditation

    The Neuroscience of Meditation

    In 1992, the Dalai Lama invited an up-and-coming neuroscientist, Richie Davidson, out to Dharamsala, India to discuss the future of neuroscience research.