Mindful Media

What we’re reading this week:

1. “Public servants could be less likely to fall ill with stress, or quit altogether, if they engage in the increasingly popular meditation practice”: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/14/meditation-help-stressed-public-servants-mps-inquiry?CMP=share_btn_fb

2. Art in prison: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jan/03/prison-art-donovan-inmates-theater/

3. 8 weeks to a “better” brain, in areas associated with memory, empathy and stress – using mindfulness: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/

4. On being authentic: Podcast via Sounds True

5. Writing from prison: https://orionmagazine.org/article/long-since-smelled-flower/