In Your Own Hands – The Impact of Emotional Intelligence

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.

Google’s ‘Jolly Good Fellow’ On The Power Of Emotional Intelligence
Chade Meng-Tan, an engineer-turned-mindfulness expert, gives an exercise to a group of Silicon Valley developers on how to achieve success and happiness at work.

Using mindfulness to improve life for people with dementia
Mindfulness has been known to decrease stress and anxiety, but recent studies attempt to find if it helps people living with dementia.

Mindfulness And My Grief
One person’s story of how mindfulness and meditation enabled them to overcome their grief from chronic pain and the loss of a loved one.

Mindfulness meditation can help manage chronic pain and depression
Being aware of the present can help reduce depression and anxiety according to a newly published neurophysiological review.

Could mindfulness meditation provide relief from pain?
Study on the effects of meditation on chronic pain shows how certain brain mechanisms are affected by meditation.