In this brief meditation, best-selling author & Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Shauna Shapiro, guides you through a #lovingkindness practice, designed to restore the body and improve the quality of your sleep & overall health. Research shows that this powerful practice enhances our immune system functioning, and increases our sense of well-being.
#Science has shown that the Loving Kindness meditation can produce an immediate relaxing effect as evidenced by increased respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of parasympathetic cardiac control which indicates your ability to enter a relaxing and restorative state.
Shauna Shapiro, PhD, is the best-selling author of Good Morning, I Love You, clinical psychologist, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She is a professor at Santa Clara University and has published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books, translated into 16 languages. Shauna has presented her research to the King of Thailand, the Danish Government, Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Summit, and the World Council for Psychotherapy, as well as to Fortune 100 Companies including Google, Cisco Systems and LinkedIn. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Mashable, Wired, USA Today, Dr. Oz, the Huffington Post, and the American Psychologist. Shauna is a graduate of Duke University and a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, co-founded by the Dalai Lama. Her TEDx Talk, The Power of Mindfulness, has been viewed over 3 million times.
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