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Ordering
The 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.
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The
Oxford Mindfulness Centre
The Oxford Mindfulness Centre aims to promote the potential
of mindfulness-based approaches in mental and physical health.
It is a charitable enterprise that operates within Oxford
University’s Department of Psychiatry and collaborates closely
with the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Healthcare NHS
Trust.
The centre provides mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
training courses for NHS patients, particularly those with
depression or fatigue, as well as providing a range of training
courses for healthcare professionals interested in applying
MBCT to the healthcare setting.
Two pivotal studies were run at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
These two studies investigated whether MBCT is effective in
preventing relapse in patients with depression, and found
that, in patients who had had three or more previous depressive
relapses, MBCT can reduce the rate of relapse in the subsequent
12 months by 55% (Teasdale et al., 2000, Ma and Teasdale,
2004). As a result, MBCT is now recommended in the guidelines
of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), an
independent organisation that provides national guidance on
healthcare matters. as a viable treatment of choice for patients
with recurrent depression. Research is ongoing, in collaboration
with the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in Bangor
University, to establish whether MBCT can reduce the risk
of depressive relapse in patients who have had suicidal thoughts
in previous depressive episodes, as well as reducing the amount
of suicidal thoughts during depressive episodes when they
occur.
References:
Ma, J. & Teasdale, J.D. (2004) Mindfulness-based cognitive
therapy for depression: Replication and exploration of differential
relapse prevention effects. Journal of Consulting & Clinical
Psychology, 72, 31-40.
Teasdale, J.D., Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G, et al (2000).
Reducing risk of recurrence of major depression using Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology,
68, 615-23.
For more information, please see the centre’s website at:
http://www.oxfordmindfulness.org.
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