New paper out! 🎉. First study to systematically explore potential mechanisms of four basic #meditation techniques and what works for whom. Body awareness, decentering and emotion regulation improved reliably for all techniques. More results ⬇️.

📣 Big news! I'm moving to Australia to join @ntvandam and his wonderful team @ContemplateUoM in Melbourne! 🎉🇦🇺. Our visa just got granted and my family and I will move by the end of the year. This amazing cake was made by my lovely mom for our farewell party ❤️

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Hi everyone, I haven't been around here for a while as I'm a bit concerned about how this platform is developing. Seems some of you are still around 😊 How are you dealing with this? Have you found a good alternative yet? 🤔.

RT @WillemKuyken: Vorfreude – a form of #joy, captured in this German word. Delighted that my forthcoming book, Mindfulness for Life, is fe….

The survey will be available in ten languages soon, so stay tuned 😉😇.

Thanks to all the great researchers who collaborate with us in this project: Daniel Atad, @INyklicek, Jesus Montero-Marin, Katherine Chen, Liudmila Gamaiunova, @DemarzoMarcelo, Masaru Kanetsuki and Takeshi Hamamura!.

We will explore:.> how meditators from different cultural and traditional contexts vary in their meditation practice, motivation and individual traits🌏.> why they prefer certain practices🧘.> how their practice and personality develop over time ⌛️.

Great news! My lovely collaborator Heena Kamble and I received a European Varela Grant 🥳. Thanks to @MindandLifeEU for sponsoring the first-ever global survey of meditators where we will explore who practices what and why ⬇️ #meditation.

➡️ Extraverted participants benefitted more from humming and walking meditation. ➡️ Effects on well-being and mind-wandering were smaller and less consistent. Check out the paper for detailed plots on how these variables develop over time and in different participants 📈📉📊.

➡️ Walking meditation was particularly effective for body awareness and emotion regulation. ➡️ Observing- thoughts and concentration meditation led to more positive reponse patterns and better responses in participants high in neuroticism.

The scientific publishing system is fundamentally flawed. Governments pay the scientists who do the research, write, review and edit the papers and the libraries who pay the subscriptions, while private businesses make a huge profit of it. Great article:.

This is a global problem… Sometimes I think having a career in academia and having a family are just not compatible 🤷🏽‍♀️ #IchbinHanna .

I also love this parable, which highlights the importance of practicing #compassion and #kindness every day:

Or to phrase it in the words of Rousseau:

I’m currently reading this wonderful book, which is truly eye-opening and amazingly well written. Each chapter is a revelation on our innate human #kindness. It seems we’re hardwired for friendliness and sociability and warfare only emerged after we settled down… #humankind

Have you ever meditated and had a difficult or distressing experience that negatively impacted your life or daily functioning? .Please consider participating in this groundbreaking research by @MindfulBrown:.

On my way to this year’s #esri2023 @MindandLifeEU with the #nighttrain to Italy 🚞❤️ Really looking forward to meeting old and making new friends 😃

Doing some serious fieldwork today 😄 We went #forestbathing as a team @uni_greifswald to get some hands-on experience. Now I can verify that it does have positive effects on #Wellbeing 🌳😇

Another episode of “Thank you for traveling with @DB_Bahn”: First they cancel all ICE from Berlin to Greifswald without replacement, then they do not bother to send a longer RE to accommodate all passengers. So after waiting 1,5h for this train, I have to spend 3h standing 😱🤯🙈

RT @DeblockBlock: Stop funding research .(the way you do).Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific .A thread (1/16).