Mindfulness

Most people try mindfulness and stop within a week. The research on habit formation and behavioural science explains why — and how to build a practice that lasts.

A rigorous look at the evidence: what mindfulness reliably does, what it doesn't do, and how to actually build the practice.

Corporate mindfulness programmes have become ubiquitous. The evidence for their effectiveness - and their limitations - is more nuanced than their proponents suggest.

Chronic pain is not simply a signal - it is a complex perceptual experience shaped by attention, expectation, and emotional state. Mindfulness changes pain by changing its context.

Mindful eating reduces binge eating, emotional eating, and food cravings. Here is the evidence and how to implement it without turning every meal into a meditation session.

The most-cited mindfulness study in neuroscience followed participants through an 8-week MBSR programme. The structural brain changes it found changed how the field thinks about meditation.

Mindfulness is not a single technique. Different practices - focused attention, open monitoring, loving-kindness - produce different neurological and psychological effects.