Is Mindfulness a Bad Word?

Is Mindfulness a Bad Word?

I wrote an article about the term mindfulness a while back because it seems to cause some confusion. My friend George Ryan, who teaches meditation to LAPD special teams officers, doesn’t like the term. “I don’t want your mind to be full,” he...
First Responders and Substance Abuse

First Responders and Substance Abuse

Nobody knows for sure rates of substance abuse among American first responders. Psychologist Ellen Kirschman and epidemiologist John Violanti–two of my heroes–have been looking at this for decades now. According to Kirschman, law enforcement officers...
Mindfulness—What Does that Word Mean?

Mindfulness—What Does that Word Mean?

It might surprise you to discover that researchers at Harvard Medical School studying mindfulness struggled to explain their research to His Holiness the Dali Lama. Why? Not because they couldn’t translate their work into Tibetan; the Dali Lama comes with his own...