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The MWS Podcast 150: Adam Luecke on mindfulness and analytical thought

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Our guest today is Adam Luecke PH.D who is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His research focuses on multiple areas of social psychology, including prosocial behaviour and the benefits of mindfulness. He’s done a wide range of research that suggests that mindfulness increases analytical thought, decreases just world beliefs, reduces discrimination and implicit age and races bias. This research will be the topic of our discussion today.

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The MWS Podcast 40: Alison Armstrong on Mindfulness & Compulsive Buying

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My guest today is Alison Armstrong, who is a mindfulness teacher and researcher and founder of Present Minds. She’s going to talk to us about mindfulness and compulsive buying which began as a research project for her PhD and became a ground-breaking RESOLVE study. She’ll also talk about how all this relates to the Middle Way.

Here’s also an article Alison wrote for the Guardian which gives an overview of the topic.


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The MWS Podcast: Episode 3, Vidyamala Burch

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In this episode Vidyamala Burch, talks about her new book “Mindfulness for Health” and her work with Breathworks, an organisation set up to bring mindfulness as a tool for reducing suffering to people worldwide; regardless of their situation. She gives an overview of what she sees mindfulness is and how she first became interested in it. Other topics discussed are the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Paul Gilbert and how mindfulness relates to the Middle Way.


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