Research
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ~ Einstein
Self-Expansion As A Mediator Of Relationship Improvements In a Mindfulness Intervention
Developed by Jim and Kimberly Carson, Mindfulness-Based Relationship Enhancement (MBRE), a novel 8-week adaptation of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), was shown in a randomized controlled trial to significantly improve relationship satisfaction and...
Mindfulness-Based Relationship Enhancement
Mindfulness has been shown to be helpful of so many aspects of life. Mindfulness-Based Relationship Enhancement, was the first mindfulness program designed for couples and subjected to a randomized controlled research study. MBRE was designed to enrich the...
Loving Kindness For Chronic Pain
Loving-kindness meditation has been used for centuries in the Buddhist tradition to develop love and transform anger into compassion. As the emotional milieu is known to impact chronic pain, Jim and Kimberly Carson, developed a randomized controlled study to test a...
Mindful Yoga alters pressure pain thresholds and other pain processing variables in fibromyalgia patients
Published findings from a randomized controlled trial have shown that Mindful Yoga training improves symptoms, functional deficits, and coping abilities in individuals with fibromyalgia and that these benefits are replicable and can be maintained 3 months...
Follow-up of Mindful Yoga for Fibromyalgia: Results at 3 months and replication in the wait-list group
The primary aims of this study were 1) to evaluate the post-treatment effects of Yoga of Awareness among participants originally assigned to the wait-list group in an earlier fibromyalgia trial, and 2) to test the program’s effects at 3 month follow-up in the earlier...
Mindful Yoga for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a debilitating condition affecting 11-15 million persons in the U.S. Most fibromyalgia patients use health services extensively; this illness carries an annual direct cost for care of >$20 billion. FDA indicated drug therapies are generally only 30%...
Mindful Yoga for Breast Cancer Patients Experiencing Hot Flashes
Breast cancer survivors have limited options for the treatment of hot flashes and related symptoms. Further, therapies widely used to prevent recurrence of cancer in survivors, such as tamoxifen, tend to induce or exacerbate menopausal symptoms. Although one study has...
Yoga for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
Metastatic breast cancer remains a terminal illness for which major treatment advances are slow to appear. Hence it is crucial that effective supportive interventions be developed to reduce the cancer-related symptoms of women with this condition during the remaining...
Mindful Yoga Modulates Abnormal Pain Processing
Published findings from a randomized controlled trial have shown that Mindful Yoga training improves symptoms, functional deficits, and coping abilities in individuals with fibromyalgia and that these benefits are replicable and can be maintained 3 months...
