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• Is mindfulness making us ill?

  23-01-2016 11:00
  
  It’s the relaxation technique of choice, popular with employers and even the NHS. But some have found it can have unexpected effectsI am sitting in a circle in a grey, corporate room with 10 housing association employees – administrators, security guards, cleaners – eyes darting about nervously. We are asked to eat a sandwich in silence. To think about every taste and texture, every chewing motion and bite. Far from being relaxed, I feel excruciatingly uncomfortable and begin t
  
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• Spaced repetition: a hack to make your brain store information

  23-01-2016 10:00
  
  Using spaced repetition as a study technique is effective because you are deliberately hacking the way your brain works
  Late night dates with a 600-page textbook and a multipack of Red Bull are a familiar encounter for many people. Whether in school, university or work, we all find ourselves in situations where we have to learn a vast quantity of information in a very short period of time.In these instances, almost all of us resort to the age-old study technique of reading through the textbook o
  
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• 'It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it'

  23-01-2016 09:00
  
  People pick up sounds that represent feelings such as sadness and anger faster than words that express the same emotions; and sadness lingers longer than happiness in the brain.
  
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