by Sue Robbins | Aug 4, 2015 | Wellness
According to a pilot study in Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, self-critical people were significantly kinder and more compassionate toward themselves after practicing lovingkindness meditation, compared with a control group. Lovingkindness is a form of...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 2, 2014 | Headache Drugs
According to research published in the October issue of Headache, meditation could be a path to migraine relief. “Stress is a well-known trigger for headaches, and research supports the general benefits of mind-body interventions for migraines, but there...
by Sue Robbins | Jul 28, 2014 | Headache Drugs
There is a wide variety of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for the treatment of migraine. These include physical therapies, medicinal herbs and teas, relaxation techniques and pharmacologic supplements. One recent survey of patients at an...
by Sue Robbins | Feb 24, 2014 | Headache Drugs
What does work stress feel like for you? Is it a 100 pound chain bolting you to your chair? Is it a migraine that comes on because you haven’t had anything to eat? Or is it too much coffee that makes you feel jittery. Whatever it is, most people experience...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 29, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Why is it that when some people are in pain, the experience is so extreme that they can’t think of anything else, while others can turn their minds somewhere else and feel better? Karen Davis, a neuroscientist at the University of Toronto’s Centre for the...
