Psychology Archives | Dyana Wells

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

by Dyana Wells | Oct 10, 2019 | Buddhist Psychology, Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology

A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex –...

The Four Noble Truths and Modern Life

by Dyana Wells | Sep 26, 2019 | Buddhist Psychology, Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology

The relevance of Buddha’s four noble truths in our modern lives The fundamental and most important teachings of the Buddha are disarmingly simple. There is suffering There is a cause of suffering There is an end of suffering There is a way to the end of suffering. It...

Mindfulness and Buddhist Psychology

by Dyana Wells | Sep 19, 2019 | Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology

Have we reduced Buddhist psychology to mindfulness training? What might have been lost in the translation? The core teaching of the Buddha has always about how to reduce human suffering. The freedom or liberation his teachings refer to is freedom from suffering. It...

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

The Four Noble Truths and Modern Life

Mindfulness and Buddhist Psychology

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