In Your Own Hands – Meditation and Supercharging Your Health

Every Monday, my blog post “In Your Own Hands” is where I’ll be featuring articles I find interesting or that I think are a good resource to help you take charge of your health. What articles have you read recently that caught your attention? Leave a comment and let me know.

How Yoga and Meditation Can Supercharge Your Health
The Smithsonian’s Yoga: The Art of Transformation exhibition is hosting a Medical Yoga Symposium on Saturday.

Can meditation top medication?
A comparison of meditation and medication for patients with anxiety and depression

Julie Myerson: how mindfulness based cognitive therapy changed my life
Fantastic article on how mindfulness therapy drastically changed one woman’s life who lived with constant anxiety.

Accentuating the positive
“Research has found that positive psychology programs can boost desirable outcomes such as hope, gratitude, life satisfaction and resilience in young people. Bringing the positive aspects of life to the fore can make a huge difference.”

How I Learned to Swap Anxiety for Excitement
Great article on how focusing on the positive, rather than dreading what could go wrong provides better results.