Blissful Brain

The Blissful Brain is published by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how to order your copy, please click here.

Guardian G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling

"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration, memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please click here.

The Times: Calm down dear by Angela Pertusini

"Claims by the neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja regarding the benefits of meditation have been backed up by rigourous scientific research and are explained in her acclaimed book The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof of the Power of Meditation". To read more, please click here.

Just this Day event: A Day of Silence and Stillness at St Martin's in the Field on 23rd of November 2011

Shanida Nataraja will be participating in this exciting event that aims to explore the power of silience and stillness in our busy world. For more information, please click here or visit the Just This Day website.

Mindfulness in the Workplace: Brain based approaches to improving employee resilience and productivity at Robinson College, Cambridge on 10 February 2012

Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at this day event that brings together leading experts in mindfulness to discuss how it could help organisations improve productivity & resiliance. Speakers include Professor Mark Williams, Michael Chaskalson, Ruby Wax, Margaret Chapman, and more (for more information, please see click here.

The Centre For Mindfulness Research And Practice – Bangor University

The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice is based in the School of Psychology at Bangor University. The centre aims to promote well-being through the clinical application of mindfulness-based approaches. Not only are they involved in teaching the general public and training healthcare professionals, they are also actively involved in researching the clinical applications of mindfulness.

The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice is currently collaborating with the Oxford Centre for Mindfulness at Oxford University to run a study to investigate whether Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) can reduce vulnerability to recurrent emotional crises. This randomised controlled trial plans to recruit 375 patients currently in remission or recovery from major depression in Oxford and North Wales. Patients will be randomly allocated to receive standard treatment, a 8-week psycho-educational course, or MBCT, and the impact of these treatments on the rate of depressive relapse in patients who have suicidal feelings when depressed, as well as the incidence of suicidal thoughts during periods of depression when they occur, will be assessed over a period of 12 months after the treatment phase.

For more information, please see the centre's website at: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/imscar/mindfulness/.